But at the same time, recognizing when the organization you are a part of is simply not a match for your needs is also important. If you need an article like this to help you navigate your current role... you are probably in the wrong job.
However, you can decide that people are not important and cut them out all together. But if you decide that someone is important you can't pick and choose.
I have a bone to pick with our “ticket estimations” meeting. It’s a waste of time, we don’t even use the estimations for any planning purposes. We just sit there, reading tickets out loud as a group, saying pseudo random numbers that inevitably average out to a 2, 3, or 4.
I’m convinced we’d have better estimations if we just nixed the meeting and sampled estimations from a normal distribution.
But then again. if you don't like the group, your job, go on a quest to find someone else to spend you time with. that is probably the best investment you can do.