I do not like meetings.
I am trying to be very civil with this. In truth, I hate meetings. I can deal with a meeting for about an hour. A meeting longer than an hour annoys me. A meeting longer than ninety minutes angers me. A meeting longer than two hours turns me into a quiet, boiling, rage-filled nutjob. It doesn’t really matter what kind of meeting. (I should note that most of my meetings take place after 11 hours of work, so my candle is already burned.)
There must be people in the world who like meetings. They must be people who enjoy the social aspect. I quit being on a board at church because it was all older ladies, and we had about 15 minutes of actual information to go over, then 30 minutes of re-hashing old things that we had re-hashed the last three meetings, then an HOUR of chit-chat/tangential stories. I was a pen-clicker back then, and would click my pen nervously as the minutes ticked by. I have since learned that that is in appropriate behavior when one is annoyed. Now I go full-on Ally McBeal in my head and imagine standing on the table screaming ‘SHUT UP!!! JUST EVERYONE SHUT UP SO THIS CAN BE OVER!!!‘
So, what I want to know is: What is your meeting tolerance?