Monday meetings are usually predictable: dashboards, forecasts, and too much coffee. But this week, one of our remote teammates gave us a front-row seat to a work-from-home disaster so unexpected, so unforgettable, that our entire team is still laughing about it. Let’s just say… pudding was involved, and professionalism was not.

I need to confess something. I’m a meeting faker. Not in the “I skip them” kind of way. No. I actually create fake meetings for myself on...

If your calendar looks like Tetris on hard mode, it’s not a schedule—it’s a cry for help.