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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/SadPumpkinSoup on 2023-09-26 17:08:14.

I work for a corporate company and we have regular meetings. Prior to this year, my team had been very respectable and would always take turns talking. Earlier this year, half our team was moved into other parts of the company and we got a new supervisor who started hiring a bunch of new employees. Almost instantly we noticed a lack of meeting etiquette with the new hires with them speaking over people presenting or even taking control away from someone presenting to share their screen. We sent out regular memos reminding the team of proper meeting norms and we even asked our higher ups to assign a hr lesson package to our team to explain how to act during a meeting.

Today, we had a very important meeting as our deadlines were being pushed excessively. I was leading the morning meeting to try to get a feel of what had to be completed but some of my team members kept interrupting one of our developers who was trying to present. I asked to please let our coworker finish but they started to take control of the conversation. Soon all the new hires were talking over each other. They were over explaining things which caused more confusion. It got to the point where it just muted the offending coworkers and would only unmute them if we addressed them.

After the meeting, my supervisor told me that was a very rude thing to do. Apparently, the coworkers I had muted started messaging my supervisor telling him I was censoring them. Am I the asshole?

EDIT: I also wanted to point out that the meeting was only allocated for 30 minutes and we had 12 different developers who had to present. Normally, the developers take 2 minutes max to give a small update. The incident happened during the 3rd developer’s turn to present and had caused a 10 minute delay. My team members have very tight schedules with many of them having important meetings right after this one.

EDIT2: I’m getting a lot of confusion regarding the nature of the morning meeting. Having a morning meeting where all the developers briefly say what they’re working on is standard in the corporate world. The purpose is to say what you’re working on and to briefly mention any issues or blockers you may be facing. This isn’t meant to be a major discussion or a “town hall” and if conversations start to drag longer we do ask them take the conversation off meeting. 30 minutes is a standard amount of time for these meetings as everyone is suppose to only give brief updates.

EDIT3: To everyone who also works in the corporate world, this is a standup meeting.