A routine status meeting that every attendee privately agreed could have been an email concluded Tuesday by generating three additional meetings, a working session, and a calendar invite titled Quick Sync that will last ninety minutes.
The meeting, which began fourteen minutes late because someone could not find the link they were sent four times, covered no decisions, reached no conclusions, and ended with the phrase let us take this offline, which everyone understood to mean it would happen again online.
Management praised the session as productive alignment and announced a new recurring meeting to reduce the number of meetings, to be held weekly, forever. Employees returned to their desks with eleven minutes remaining in the day to do the actual work the meetings were about.