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If you're not a presenter or decision maker, then decline the meeting and say "If there's something I need to do as a result of this meeting please let me know".

If you're still forced to attend then update the development schedule to reflect the impact of that time.

Managers can't change physics no matter how much they want - you're either writing code or attending meetings, not both.



They believe what they feel, and they feel like the physics behave differently than they actually do.




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