[ryandrake]

I guess I’d ask why you are going to a meeting (let alone a zoom meeting) where you don’t interact? If you’re not contributing, and you don’t need to listen, why go at all? Maybe I am lucky but I’ve never worked anywhere that people are expected to show up for meetings that are totally irrelevant to their work. I decline meetings all the time.

[hyperhopper]

The thing is given enough beiracracy there are always meetings that are _technically_ relevant but not really.

An all hands where a director lays out a strategy that was already laid out in an email and will be reiterated in another email and also will be the OKRs? Sure that's relevant to my work but I'm not going to say anything, but nobody can really say they have better things to do that go to the directors meeting about the whole purpose of our job (even if it doesn't change my personal work)

Or even sometimes things like stand-ups where half the people are going to say something along the lines of "working on the same thing I've been working on all week with slight incremental progress"

[underscoring]

we're not all lucky enough to work in places like that. Most of the meetings I go to are interactive ones where I'm contributing to the conversation, but every now and then we have these company-wide meetings that we all have to be at. They are a total waste of time and money, where 300+ employees are lectured on the sales performance stats and our business goals, and our CEO gets angry when people have their cameras off