Meeting

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Like a conference call, only without phones, it’s much harder (though not impossible, depending on how brazen you are) to multi-task, and impossible to go on mute.

Never, ever, to be described as a “meet”.

“Important” ones are often stewarded by a functionary from the COO office who gets to watch the the grisly proceedings up close, occasionally twisting the knife or going crazy Ivan with an “innocent” question<ref>On a conference call, there are no innocent questions. There are stupid questions and trick questions. Although nominally no more than a court clerk, such a person can skew their role to resemble on of the master’s attack dogs. Depending on the disposition of that person chairing the meeting, it can therefore be quite the cat-bird seat: rather like walking around the rim of a volcano in one of those big silver spaceman suits watching everyone else in tee-shirts and flip-flops hopping about trying to dodge flying magma.

See also

• Crazy Ivan
• Meet
• All-hands conference call