Stuff I Wish I'd Known When I Started Working

MEETINGS JUST BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE GOES DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings’.

– Dave Barry, American author and columnist

Please may I say this with all of the passion that I can possibly summon up?

Most meetings are a complete waste of time.

May I say furthermore, that the person who invented that feature in Outlook where you can book other people’s time for your meeting, should be clapped in irons and sent to Devil’s Island with no possibility of sentence remission – given that he or she has wiped out more of people’s lives than many small wars.

Please don’t misunderstand or misquote me ...