An interesting idea...supposedly at Tesla and SpaceX, Elon recommended that anyone who found a meeting to be pointless should get up and leave immediately. I don't know if that's still the practice, maybe someone from those companies can chime in.

That has presumably worked _for Elon_...

David Marcus (FB, previously PayPal) had (has?) a similar stated policy regarding meetings.

If my meetings happened as described with no one rescheduling or derailing them then actually my meeting life would be fine.

I want to go to the meetings described on my calendar.

But nearly every time “It’s a trap!”

What if it's pointless to you, but someone else needs to hear the status because they need to decide what's important to tell the vice president?

Do you mean the Bee-Watcher wants to know what to tell the Bee-Watcher-Watcher?

I no-shit had a manager that made zero decisions or contributions, but wanted detailed notes on what we were doing so that he could take credit for our work in meetings.