I love this post! Mostly because I have and do deal with a lot of people who think status reports are important. They (the reports, not the people) make me feel like moments of my life I'll never get back.

I once said "if you've got a time machine in your back pocket so we go back and change anything we need to I'd be glad to have a status meeting." That didn't go over too well. :-) I also said to someone once that I'd rather have progress updates and they accused me of playing with semantics. :-) Some compliance came my way when I explained what I was looking for but old habits are really hard to break for some people. Sometimes though it feels like quite the struggle so thanks for writing this post!