people flatly refused to discuss anything that wasn't put on agenda in advance, never mind that it may have taken five minutes and may have involved three guys, instead of having everybody read about it for the next meeting.Have you considered that unscheduled discussions between 3 guys in a meeting with others who have not had an opportunity to prepare but who will be said to have been party to the discussion and its conclusions, is one of the primary tactics used by the sorts of "crooks" to whom you refer in another thread?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
