I worked as a consultant for Hewlitt Packard for many years. Our job was in the E-Commerce Division. In any case, like most large companies, we had meetings constantly. However, this was a little overboard. Alot of thier business was farmed out to India, so there were times that we could not understand the other employees. One time we setup a meeting to discuss some technical issues. The meeting was terrible, the U.S. based team could not understand the India-based team. Therefore we went through three more meetings before we figured out which members could understand each other so we could fix the minor technical issue.