can you please listen to yourself? this is babys first day managing software dev level observation. "there will never be a serious business that does those things" ok, i guess well ignore the entire industry then
But the industry DOES all of those things. That is what people are stupidly complaining about. People aren't complaining about meetings or job interviews or being expected to turn up at the office because of the theoretical possibility they will happen but because they do actually happen.