Technology

We stick to that format with minor variations:

1. Recap of the morning's school run and dog walks
2. Update on everyone's pets' health
3. Update on peoples' kids' behaviour
4. Update on team members' health and their families
5. Miscellaneous gripes
6. All the sports: what happened, what people think will happen, and details of particular players
7. Sports statistics in depth
8. Mutual accusations of breaking things
9. Defence against said accusations
10. Gripes about boss's emails
11. Long, in-depth accounts from two team members of their last day's work, minute by minute, with digressions into big-picture frustrations and grumbles about management, customers, etc.
12. Recounting of the history of these issues over the last 15 years or so.
13. Each person tells us that they're working on the thing the kanban board says they're working on, and that it will take them as long as it says on the board.
14. Holiday plans or accounts of past holidays
15. Goodbye
16. One guy jumps in with a 15-minute anecdote about taking his dog to the vet
17. Goodbye
18. Any further anecdotes about things people's dogs ate, etc.
19. Goodbye.

Its supposed to take 10-15 minutes but it takes up to an hour, sometimes more. I usually tune in late and sometimes pretend I lost my internet connection halfway through.