This cartoon reminds me of most (male) sales/marketing people I know when they have to attend any kind of meeting that involves anything remotely technical (apart from discussions about cars or watches of course) .. On a more serious note though, this kind of approach to business seems to be the norm these days, meetings seem to be open house for non-business activities like eating, drinking, catching up with personal emails and generally running your daily affairs whilst supposedly listening to colleagues. And don't get me started on conference calls and video conferences, normally a triumph of technical incompetence over apathy, my personal favourite though (particularly prevalent among millennial's) is the phone call 5 minutes before the start of a meeting to let people know you're not going to turn up at all! Perhaps all this is telling us that we should all be having less meetings? Sounds like a manifesto for 2020's and gets my vote every time...
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