I am tired of people not showing up for meetings. Showing up can take the form of any or some of the following; Not preparing for the meeting.Interrupting people.Setting the meeting back with irrelevant questions. I’m tired of those things happening on my ZOOM calls. Yes we might be tired of having to have all the meetings, but let’s not confuse ZOOM with our inherent meeting culture which is the real problem.
So here it is… Now get back to it.
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