Meetings suck...I'll have the salmon.

Let's all just start by agreeing on that. Thank you.

That said, 8am meetings are WORSE. Granted, I work in MST so it's a 10am meeting for my counterparts in EST, but no one seems to give 2 figurative shits about that.

Why did you miss the meeting? Um...because I was driving through a dead spot on my way to work, because it was 8 o'goddamn clock in the morning!

Stop it already. We all know they are a waste of time anyhow.

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Microsoft Teams?

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I Mean, I Work in IT...

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