I had fifteen meetings last week
That's three a day, not counting incoming phone calls that were unscheduled and incoming pings from our in-house messaging system. I'm not a manager, but a glorified technician. And they wonder why I'm falling behind?

Wrt to pointless meetings and the like, don't bother attending. If you have a messaging system at work, disable it. If it's important enough, they will ring you / approach you at your desk. If they don't, then it obviously wasn't important enough to bother you about in the first place.

This approach has worked for me for two years now. I've received 5 performance awards.

Mad.
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