When I know I have many meetings or if a meeting is coming up, I simply do very little or nothing at all until they're all over. Is it just me? It's the matter of not starting something I know I won't be able to finish. It's like they make management do bullshit meetings or the manager needs to show they're actually doing something, so they waste your, and everyone else's time. You're not only unproductive during the meeting, but also before it.
It just doesn't make sense to me with these dumb little routine check-ins. Can't we all be professional and act like adults and create a meeting only if you actually need one? I've also noticed people developed the skill of talking just to talk. I can't even begin to comprehend how people somehow talk about a specific topic, repeating the same crap in 20 different ways, when I just want a pull a George Carlin and tell them to shut their fucking mouth.