Why are managers obsessed about 'meetings'?

Yes! But who wants to quit it? It gives you billing hour for the time you waste on nothing?

If anybody is that badly pissed off, you know he would be a Big-K or Rupam somewhere down the line.

#-Link-Snipped-# - You didn't get my point. I'm saying if you're going to get billed anyways - why bother wasting time 'together'? I had once suggested that all meetings should be conducted with everyone 'standing' so that the meeting gets over in 10 minutes and everyone goes back to work - or killing time (officially).

Maybe the 'managers' want to 'show' their subordinates that they are in 'control' and remind everyone about their 'authority'.

In my previous assignment at Trivandrum I was a scientist in myindividual capacity, head of an academic department and also head of the lab. Wearing three hats (preference to the first) was trying. I told everyone that if they wanted to meet they can catch me wherever I was on the 26 acre campus on a hill with a maximum height difference of about 200 feet.
Meeting while climbing up or down did not suit many. Only really important things came my way. In my own department daily we had a 10 minute sunrise and sunset meeting in the workplace. All standing.
Being an engineer without MBA has advantages.

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Managers are obsessed about meeting because that's the only way to justify their day!!! Unlike developers, they can't say they fixed x number of defects or finished a module!!