[bigyikes]

You mean if I decline enough, I’ll stop getting invited? A dream!

I have a bone to pick with our “ticket estimations” meeting. It’s a waste of time, we don’t even use the estimations for any planning purposes. We just sit there, reading tickets out loud as a group, saying pseudo random numbers that inevitably average out to a 2, 3, or 4.

I’m convinced we’d have better estimations if we just nixed the meeting and sampled estimations from a normal distribution.

[madsbuch]

more like, if you don't attend you'll get expelled from the group. Meaning you'll get fired.

But then again. if you don't like the group, your job, go on a quest to find someone else to spend you time with. that is probably the best investment you can do.

[tuna74]

Those kind of ticket estimation meetings are always a waste of time. Have one person do the estimate and then follow up (in aggregate) how correct the estimations were. Hopefully you will get better over time.

[pavel_lishin]

Have you considered speaking up, and trying to change your process?