Another Shift at the Meetings Factory
Why is this Meetings meme funny?
The meme shows a tied cat hoping for few meetings while standing before a “lots of meetings factory.” The dive explains coordination versus focus work, context switching, and how organizations industrially overproduce syncs.
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A grainy collage shows a wide-eyed tabby cat wearing a tiny necktie in the foreground, as if arriving for an office job. Its speech bubble says, “Hope i don’t have a lot of meetings,” while the industrial building behind it is labeled “lots of meetings factory” in large white letters. Tall smokestacks make the workplace look like a literal plant dedicated to manufacturing calendar events. The absurd setup captures the familiar engineering experience of hoping for focus time inside an organization whose process continuously produces meetings.
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The factory’s only deliverable is calendar conflicts, and somehow it still has five-nines availability.