[What is] This Meeting Is Bullsh*t
Corporate culture critique with receipts
What This Is
A dedicated space for calling out the absurdity of modern corporate life. The meetings that should have been emails. The emails that should have been nothing. The processes that exist to protect someone’s ego. The theater we perform so everyone can pretend we’re being productive. This section says the quiet part loud.
Why It’s Needed
Because you’re not imagining it—corporate culture has become a parody of itself. Because every hour spent in performative alignment is an hour stolen from actual work. Because someone needs to say “the emperor has no clothes” before we all drown in synergy and circle back to nothing.
Who It’s For
Anyone who’s ever muted themselves on Zoom to scream. The person typing “Great idea!” while thinking “What the f*ck.” People who love their work but hate the bureaucracy that surrounds it. You’re not a bad culture fit. The culture is bad.
What to Expect
Takedowns of corporate nonsense with surgical precision. Pattern recognition for the dysfunction you’ve normalized. Dark humor that helps you survive until you can change it—or leave. Think Dilbert with an MBA and a vendetta.
The Ideology
Most corporate dysfunction exists because someone benefits from it. Clarity is threatening to people who thrive in ambiguity. If a process doesn’t serve the work, it serves someone’s power. The first step to fixing something is admitting it’s broken.
Three Things to Do Now
1. Count your meetings this week. Calculate the salary cost. Ask what got produced.
2. Decline one meeting that doesn’t need you. See what happens. (Nothing will happen.)
3. Send this to your work friend. You know the one. They need to know they’re not alone.