Obsessive Meeting Disorder

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A person who schedules so many meetings that the actual work gets buried under a mountain of pointless chatter and coffee.
'We need to talk about the report. Again. At 2 PM. Again.'
'I had a meeting to decide if we should have a meeting.'
'He had 5 meetings to plan one tiny task. I cried.'
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Someone who talks about doing stuff so much that it takes longer to do it than it would have if they just did it.
'We met 3 times to decide the color of the logo. It’s now pink.'
'I had to attend a meeting to agree on the meeting time.'
'The meeting took 4 hours. The task took 10 minutes.'
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A person who can’t do a task without a meeting. They’re like a dog that won’t walk without a leash.
'I had to go to a meeting to choose a meeting place.'
'They had 6 meetings to plan one tiny project. It’s still not done.'
'She had a meeting to talk about the meeting. It was a meeting about meetings.'
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A person who turns every tiny task into a big fancy meeting. They don’t know the meaning of ‘just do it.’
'We had a meeting to decide who would lead the meeting.'
'They scheduled a meeting to agree on the meeting time.'
'He had a meeting to explain that there was a meeting.'
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A person who thinks meetings are the only way to get things done. They’d rather talk than act.
'We met 7 times to decide on one tiny change. It’s still not right.'
'She had a meeting to decide if the meeting was necessary.'
'They talked for 3 hours. They did nothing.'
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A person who schedules meetings so often that they become the main job instead of the real work.
'I had 10 meetings this week. I got nothing done.'
'He works at the meeting company. He doesn’t do the actual work.'
'She turned her job into a meeting. It’s all talk and no action.'
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