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 Although nominally no more than a court clerk, such a person can skew their role to resemble one 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