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"no, having a meeting about it won't help, it will just waste my time that I could be using to figure out the problem."
I had a manager years ago who viewed his involvement in problem-solving as a variant of the rubber duck solution. I always wanted to tell him to his face that he was accurate, in the sense that he brought about as much to the table as an actual rubber duck.