Our "scrum" stand-ups were taken over by the PM stack, and they started getting longer and longer and weren't useful for the team doing the work. So I started

Our "scrum" stand-ups were taken over by the PM stack, and they started getting longer and longer and weren't useful for the team doing the work. So I started calling them status meetings. "Hey, stand-up in five minutes!" "You mean status?" ... and kept doing that. Eventually even the PM grudgingly admitted that it was just a status meeting, and referred to it that way himself. It was okay; agile had died (and turned into simple micro-management) a long time ago in our division.