To be honest it doesn't bother me being less productive. If my employer pays me to do useless meetings, that's on him. The best I can do is to notify him about the state of things. Being productive or not doesn't matter much to me.
I couldn’t disagree more. I think you should be at a job to learn skills and gain experience which can be used to advance your career. Short term money is tangential. Also often the impact you have directly affects your compensation, especially in higher level roles, but at the very least affects your cost of living raises, eligibility for promotion, and can shape your overall outlook at the company.
I think if meetings seem useless the right thing to do is talk to your boss until you understand why the meeting is useful, or they understand why it is not useful. Your employer is not paying you to shrug your shoulders and declare you get paid the same either way
I wouldn’t choose a position meeting for 40 hours every week, even if it came with a pay raise. I enjoy coding and solving abstract problems, and they build the skills I value having (and so does the market).
They do have the right to ask it because they’re paying me, but there comes a point where I’d say no.
Ever since we started working from home, I've come to realise that that's exactly what my wife's job is: constant meetings the whole day.
To me, meetings distract from the real work, for her, they are the real work. Meetings are where decisions are made, but not where product is made. I make product, she makes decisions.
Problem is many workplaces stuff your schedule full of meetings but still expect work to be done, usually by doing the actual work in the evenings or weekends.
