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You need to be able to stop bad meetings This is a really bad advice, especially in this context. Don't annoy or confront your coworkers. Tell your manager if

• danielvinson 7y ago
  It really depends on the company. At every company I've worked at, either the company was too small to be able to invite that many people (it would basically be an all-hands) or the management was the ones planning these meetings. In my experience, the way to handle this is usually a quick Slack conversation with the meeting organizer starting with "hey, I saw you invited all of team X to the meeting - do they all need to be there or just Y". The response is almost always "I don't know anyone on that team so I just invited them all", and by initiating the conversation you are offering to help.
• timClicks 7y ago
  That's the point. Doing this effectively means interrupting the meeting without annoying coworkers. Everyone stuck in an unproductive meeting wants to do the rest of the items on their list. But no one feels that they have the authority to act as a circuit breaker.
• gauravjain13 7y ago
  Valid point, but I wouldn’t be so prescriptive. It’s also about understanding other variables — the culture of your workplace, the particular meeting/situation — and calibrating your approach accordingly. Of course, easier said than done.
• gwbas1c 7y ago
  The point of being a leader is you don't need to go through your manager when someone's wasting your team's time.