[lostcolony]

I have a recurring "Developer meeting", with some of the other devs every day at 12-1 because I was so tired of having the management types, having filled the rest of their calendars with useless meetings, deciding to schedule me for useless meetings that prevented me from getting lunch (as in, Monday, Tuesday is wide open, then Tuesday morning, bam, meeting invites from 10:30 until 2:30, no breaks).

That, and responding to every meeting with "tentative", so that I'm free to re-evaluate the meeting's priority against real work up until the last possible second, has allowed me to keep my sanity in a culture of time wasting.

[AstroJetson]

People where I work try to book meetings across lunch on a regular basis. I'll get the invite and ask "are you bringing food?" No food and I'm not showing up.

I did have one smart person slide a pack of crackers across the table at me. As I ate them I was declining every meeting with them for the next month. That solved that problem.