The Aftermath

4. / Things you swore you'd set after the last one. Still setting them.
8. / What the debrief with your work wife is actually called.
10. / The light at the end of every tunnel. Always Friday.
11. / I think we're all in ___. We are not all in ___. Nobody is in ___.
12. / Hey guys, just ___ up. The meeting ended ten minutes ago. Why are you still here.
15. / Sorry I'm late, this other meeting ___ over. As all meetings do. Forever.
18. / The document you mentally updated during minute 43.
19. / The fantasy that kept you going through the whole thing. Back to it now.
21. / My ___ has been weird. Sure. That's why you were silent for an hour.
22. / I have a comment, and it's actually more of a ___, and it will take eleven minutes.
23. / The first thing you reach for when it's over. The second too.
25. / The meeting you actually needed instead. Book it.

1. / What this meeting could have been. Three sentences. An ___.
2. / Did I ___ anything? Yes. Forty minutes of your life you'll never get back.
3. / Not a buzzword. A diagnosis. Today's meeting didn't help.
5. / This shouldn't take ___. It will take long. It always takes long.
6. / Let's ___ back on this next week. Nothing will have changed. See you then.
7. / The expression you're wearing right now. We can tell.
9. / Let's ___ this back to basics because somehow we've spent an hour going nowhere.
13. / Back on immediately. Do not disturb. You've earned it.
14. / The number you checked during the all hands. Just in case.
16. / One ___ thing before we go. There is never one last thing.
17. / Already started. To Friday. To lunch. To anything.
20. / I think we need to ___ on this. Schedule another meeting. Obviously.
24. / Let's ___ on that idea until it becomes unrecognizable and nobody owns it.