Our management wants daily, camera on, pre-shifts. My supervisor, audio only, once, maybe twice a week. Once she goes over all the stuff she needs to cover she asks if anyone has anything they need to go over. We have a few gossips on the team and they will proceed to take over and spend the next hour making everyone listen to what they think.

I’ve told my supervisor to say, anything work related, and then when they start that she should cut them off and say I said work related, if you want to discuss non-work related things you can start your own group chat as long as you are not falling behind.

She has so far refused to stand up to them hijacking our meetings like that, so even though I’m required to stay in the meeting until it’s ended, I just stay silent for a while and eventually leave then set myself to red so it looks like I’m on a call with one of the people I regularly interact with. Nothing has been said and if it is I’ll point out that being in that meaningless meeting is hurting my productivity.