I just got fired from a job where we had a half-hour "standup" each day, except on Wednesday and Friday, when there were two hour meetings - and we also had to post on a status board details about what we did each day.

These meetings consisted of just five people - the CTO, the CEO, and the three engineers. Yes, the two top members of the company spent five hours a week to nano-manage three engineers.

The meetings went like this. The two managers would free-associate about whatever they happened to be thinking, which was often exactly the same thing they had talked about the day before.

Then then they would grill us about the "tickets" we were working on, because they were somehow unable to read them themselves, and then try to come up with some sort of criticism. It was quite common for them to vacillate back and forth between various criticisms in successive days.

Management had other serious issues, like a complete refusal to plan in the short, medium, or long-term, volatile emotions, and constantly trying to get the tiny engineering team to do things that weren't programming like "social media", blog posts, marketing research, or just plain spamming. And of course, the turnover was just fierce - 200% in five months, most of them fired (because they also refused to let the staff interview, so there were a lot of lemons).