I work from home for an accounting company, we typically have a daily meeting at around 7am that is scheduled to last 20 minutes. However, my boss never allows them to just go for 20 minutes. For example today, he called us all into the meeting early, and it has now lasted 2 hours. For no reason. There is nothing essential to go over, he turns every meeting into a brainstorming session that lasts HOURS. I’m a breastfeeding mother, I do have my mother who comes to help out for a few hours each day, and my job is aware that I work from home with my child. I need time aside to be able to at least pump so my mother can feed my daughter. Which is a legal right, but whenever i bring it up in meetings that i need to step away he’s adamant about oh one more thing, then goes on and on and on. However, when meetings last hours, and he throws more meetings on throughout the day I literally spend about 3 hours of my 9 hour day being able to do my actual job, and the rest of the time is in his meetings watching him click around the screen. It’s infuriating, I’ve mentioned it to HR but they don’t care. He then expects me to work later because I’m in a different time zone so I come in a little later in the day, and I have work to catch up on because he puts us in these stupid meetings. Just because it’s only 5pm my time, does not mean it’s okay to contact me when my shift ends at 3pm my time. Im not in a position to decline meetings or request time changes. But I’ve began just shutting my camera off at the 30 minute mark while he rambles on for hours. Any other advice?