Maybe 5% of meetings are useful, in my experience. But when you are calling out 95% of meetings to be cancelled, well… it’s a bad look. You’re not a team player. You are being negative. It especially looks bad to managers who rely on meetings to give themselves the appearance of doing something.
I brought this up with my manager the other day. He basically said no one is counting how many meetings I go to. Just decline and don't go. And that's what I've done. And no one has given me shit so.. works for me I guess.
You miss out on the few decisions that get made doing this. It's like remote work, everyone needs to be on board or it doesn't work. Unless your truly don't care about anything that goes on.
Well.. I'm not skipping everything. Mostly just 'status update' style meetings so far. If the agenda looks interesting or relevant I go. And everyone seems to be pretty clueless about what's going on regardless. Too many people, too many moving parts.
