I am in a lot of meetings. We love them where I work. While most of them are worthwhile there are those you wish never happened. Everyone says they follow the Meyer’s rules of order, but I have to admit we don’t do what they say. I just glanced through them and I think I would like to suggest a few new ones that I think everyone could get behind. First, what if everyone in the meeting was handed a flag as they entered and if the meeting was completely useless they could throw the flag and call a meeting foul. if the majority agreed the meeting would end. How about if you are going to walk in late and make us restate what was already said that you would have to compensate the others in the meeting for time lost, maybe that would be too much. How about you have to bring snacks if you are late. Another should be if you didn’t call the meeting you don’t get to take it over or talk the most. Now if they ask you to talk that much ok, but if you do it just because you can’t keep your mouth closed there is some sort of penalty. Along the lines of penalty, all seats in meeting rooms should have an electric plate in the seat and everyone should have a button that allows them to choose a seat to get a shock. If a majority of the room hit the button for your seat you get a jolt. That would make all of us, myself included, think twice before commenting or babbling on. It would also help in the case of the meeting sleepers, who come to the meeting and contribute nothing to whatever task you are trying to accomplish.