My introduction to 1:1 was with a notably bad manager and that has given me a bad taste for them. Once a week is a horrible schedule. That's a regular producti

My introduction to 1:1 was with a notably bad manager and that has given me a bad taste for them. Once a week is a horrible schedule. That's a regular production killer as you need to task switch from focused work up to the corporate game level. Before the meeting I spend time thinking about what to talk about and after the meeting I need to refocus, which takes time. During the meeting I try to keep things light and social and parse the information I share with consideration of my manager's ability to handle it. I also have to consider how my dislike for the meetings might be perceived as hostility by my manager and be harmful to my career. Yes, I hate them.