Have you ever attended pointless meetings?

All business organizations rely on meetings as an essential component of coordinating work and people, yet most of us would agree that many of these meetings are inefficient and ineffective.

Poorly organized meetings and meetings just for the matter of them being held are just two examples, where you might feel you are wasting your time and would do something more productive instead.

Have you ever come across situations like these? How did you manage to deal with those cases?