The way my boss schedules meetings during lunch hour like we are robots

Wallahi, I am in the middle of my lunch break at my desk in Wuse. I have my tuwo shinkafa right there, I am ready to eat in peace. Then my phone beeps. It is a calendar invite from my director for a meeting that starts in five minutes. The meeting is titled "Quick Sync" and it is scheduled for 1pm to 2pm.

I looked at my food. I looked at my phone. I looked at my food again. The thing is, if I attend the meeting, my lunch is cold by 2pm. If I skip the meeting, my director will ask me tomorrow why I was not "aligned" with the team. There is no winning. This is government parastatal logic at its finest. They think we survive on air and dedication alone.

So I attended the meeting. My director spent the first twenty minutes talking about how we need to improve our turnaround time. I was staring at my tuwo shinkafa through the glass door of the conference room. The meeting eventually ended at 2:15pm. My food was cold. I ate it anyway because food is expensive in the capital.