My least favorite, and all too common, kind of day is one that gets bracketed with meetings. The most usual form of this is the 10:30 AM standup/status meeting

My least favorite, and all too common, kind of day is one that gets bracketed with meetings. The most usual form of this is the 10:30 AM standup/status meeting, paired with the 3 pm also standup/status/testing session. Assuming that you eat lunch, this is almost perfectly designed to make sure that you can't actually accomplish anything in the course of a 9-5 work day.