Yeah I don’t understand why people are pretending not to understand this -

> He asked staff to attend the meeting, which is normally optional.

Clearly means that while normally the meeting would be optional, this time it’s not

But it gets less mandatory the more layers up you go. If I get an email from an SVP that is CC: the entire division saying everyone should go to a meeting I will almost certainly be able to ascertain the contents of that meeting in 10 seconds from someone else who did attend