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[froodle]

Oh my GOD what is the actual point of a "team meeting" where all that happens is that two members of the team monopolize the whole thing by blarting and shouting and not letting anyone else get a word in, just because they're the two with the loudest voices (and oh my god, so little to say).

There was literally no need for the rest of us to be there - could have just shut these two in and let them bellow and bluster to their yappy hearts content for all the input the rest of us had, and for all the good that came of it

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[sabotabby]

Sounds like it could have been an email.

[froodle]

Ah, but you cant have the delightful experience of being repeatedly interrupted three words into a single sentence over email!

[squidgiepdx]

Been there, done that. After, I told the organizer I wouldn't be attending any more meetings until ALL voices would be heard.

[froodle]

Part of me wishes Id had a stopwatch with me just to time them and see exactly how much of the meeting they were taking up loving the sound of their own voices. And also maybe to passive-aggressively and pointedly click it at them.

[misura]

This is the one thing I love about working from home: I log in to the meeting so that I'm listed as Present and then I just get on with doing my job, and no one can tell I didn't waste my time listening. (Er. I don't do this for all meetings, obviously. But those like the one you described? Ugh.)

Sorry you had to put up with that!

[froodle]

At least if it had been a Zoom meeting I could have typed what I wanted to say in the chatbox. Or taken off headphones and disengaged. Or muted them!

(I mean, I could have physically muted them in the meeting, but that would probably have been only marginally less disruptive than the two loud buffoons themselves)