Uuh I feel you, my older job got worse and worse until it had up to 25 meetings a week... All bullshit.

When I complained it was first brushed off as not true, then I screenshotted a week with 25 meetings (senior software dev, but not manager) and that got some attention finally and actions were taken to reduce the number of meetings.

So they started with "stand up meetings" doesn't count, so those 5 meetings does not count ... (So down to 20, right?) Because they are not meetings, right? Stand up Meetings...

And all mandatory of course, except they said they were not, miss obe and you'd get problems and childish lectures about corpo culture and crap.

Can't make that shit up. And yeah, people running on hot air love corporate speak and corporate everything ugh, probably they think they're finally productive or something.

/Rant off!

I'm no longer there, good luck to you!