Ah, it is so reassuring to know I'm not alone on this. Had the most unproductive, mind-numbingly boring "kick-off meeting" for a project ever. We had a ginormous screen moved into a room, which displayed a power point presentation, remoted in through a lap top, which the vendor proceeded to read to us (mostly) over the speaker phone, on a conference call. The rest of it was consumed by the "introductions" and pointless fishing for "questions".

Two hours of my life were thusly wasted, never to be recaptured. Never mind that of one of our VPs, the CIO, my supervisor, two of our network admins and one person each from Finacial Services and HR. The Director of HR escaped because she was otherwise occupied with a Board Status Update.

I swear I heard the members of their team hanging up, one by one.