The last job I had where I was in the office full time would make the entire team sit through a 3-4 hour meeting with the clients. Well, not with the clients. The clients would be on the phone arguing with each other about what the requirements were. There were almost never any action items beyond "Clients will discuss requirements for next week."

We were not allowed to have our phones in the meeting. We were not allowed to doodle in the meeting. We had to sit there - for 3-4 hours a week - listening to people argue over a bad VOIP connection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The only way this could get any worse would be if the clients were natively speaking another language (one that you do not understand), would fall back to that five minutes into argueing among themselves, and after another five minutes, you hear your own name mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why not just use gmeet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It was over a decade ago so options were limited