Even play a video game where the ceiling is steadily dropping lower and you have to clear out the bricks to clear the way before the ceiling crushed you? I felt like my calendar is just like that game. With 10+ meetings a day it is a nonstop battle to clear the path before getting crushed.
Over the last year, the all remote working mode had created more “check in” meetings. Even when I put 5-minute gap between meetings, they got taken up by meetings anyway. My days are typically sitting in the booth dialing into one meeting after another. Sometimes I even need to excuse myself for bio break or walk to get water while on the call. This is out of control.