Scheduling a 4.55pm meeting on Friday should be a workplace offence

October 16, 2026 — 2:00am

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Someone in my team keeps scheduling meetings very late on a Friday afternoon. Worse, they’re given the title “Quick Sync Up”.

Is this legal? I strongly believe this person should go to prison.

No, what you’ve described is strictly illegal and your sense that the person should be incarcerated for their crime is entirely fair. No jury in the world would acquit this person.

This, believe it or not, is the first time I’ve heard the word “quick sync” or “sync up” in this context, and I’m not a fan. As I always say with new workplace buzzwords and jargon, criterion number one for whether or not it’s necessary should be: “Does it do something other terms simply don’t do?” This one gets a huge cross in that column.

Quick meeting. Little catch up. Short chat. Five-minute get together. Brief discussion – it barely even has a tonal difference to the many options that already exist. And that only makes the central crime worse, in my eyes. Let’s look at........

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