Mensa,
For once, you have said all there needs to be said. Excellent recap of what every meeting has been like (from different sources). No one could explain it and analyse it more accurately than the above.
And to you Fart Master, if you think that story rings of any truth and you believe it, you're moniker really does fit you nicely. Even if any manager was thinking that, it would never be said, especially in public.