There's a post on 37 signals about work meetings and how they suck. Literally. They rob you of time, focus and energy that would be better spent doing what you need to do.

Dave Sim once wrote that the people who have meetings are the people who don't have anything to do except go to meetings. He discovered this while meeting with various suits about his comic book Cerebus and whether they would adapt it, merchandise it, etc, etc. All the meetings did was suck up his time, time he could have spent drawing and at the end of the meeting there wasn't anything to show for the time spent. So he quit having the meetings and concentrated on drawing.