After a couple of bad questions, I'll either excuse myself, suggest we carry on separately, or (ideally) ask to be sent a list, for me to ignore at my leisure.

Sorry Greg, we're not here to answer your dumbass questions, or indulge your hypothetical edge cases.

If 1 person has a question, then chances are good most people have that same question but are too afraid to ask it in front of everyone.

Training classes in the military was the bane of my existence when I was in. Always people asking the dumbest questions ever.

I sit in business requirements meetings for enhancements to some software we use at work, and there’s a guy who feels the need to repeat everything everyone says in his own words (at least twice as many). The meetings used to be 30 mins but they had to extend them to an hour. And we have 2 a week.

Thanks to WFH it means I have 2 hours a week of guaranteed PlayStation time though, so I shouldn’t complain.

I'm the guy that needs to understand shit to move forward, so it's like 25% dumb questions, 25% insightful questions, 25% pretentious sounding questions and 25% jokes that give white collar people heart attacks.

Yep. That woman in the case where I work. And you can't roll your eyes in a meeting, even a Zoom meeting.

Great question Robert. Let's go ahead and parking lot that for the right time. Make sure you send that to us in your reply to the meeting notes. I don't want to lose track of it.