Pointless

I have been going to manager's meetings for well over a year, in the absence of a manager, yet today's was spectacular in it's rubbishness. First of all there were 18 items on the agenda (24 if one counts subsections). Second, the agenda and minutes of previous weren't distributed until all were present, so no prepping possible. Third the agenda was for the previous meeting and had to be re-issued after some photocopying. Fourth, the first item took an hour and 5 minutes, being mainly a discussion between the Executive Head and the finance guy over some budget spreadsheets with random numbers on. Why on earth they couldn't have discussed this in private, I really don't know. Fifth, the other 17 items included going over the minutes of a different meeting with nothing significant to discuss plus various 1 to 1 issues between the boss and individual managers. Then there was the interminable item where all the managers present have to report on their section's activities, which are of no interest to anyone else. After three hours of this purgatory, which leaked well into lunchtime, nobody came out with any actions which they hadn't ignored before (performance indicators, zero based budgetting, targets etc, I ask you). And in the talk about cost cutting, it was very clear that it was only my section which had made any significant cuts: 3 have left, not to be replaced. Everyone else replaces staff at will. Suicide is an option. They had better give me voluntary redundancy, or I might lose my temper.