[bgia]

It's funny because when I read the sentence "the 1:1 is primarily for them" i didn't realize you were a manager. To the me the 1:1 is primarily for the manager. I need my manager to talk about their perception of how the work, more specifically my work, is going.

[wry_discontent]

I'm an engineer, and my 1x1 meetings all feel useless to me. It is 100% a meeting for managers and I'd skip every single one if I could.

I would vastly prefer an ad hoc meeting when I actually have something to talk about instead of 30 minutes every week where I'm constantly struggling to find material for this useless meeting.