I once worked somewhere that had an employee who took notes during every meeting, to what seemed like an annoying level. After every meeting, he emailed everyone who attended the meeting a copy of his notes.

A couple jobs later, we were discussing changing where some images were hosted. It seemed very strange to have them in their current location, and the process that copied new images to that location was clunky.

My manager at the time said, "Well, that's what we decided what the best way to do it was."

I responded with, "Well, what were the reasons for doing it that way, and what were the other options considered?"

He said, "I don't remember."

At this point, I mentioned it might be a good idea to keep notes of any meeting we have, as it would be useful to go back and have a record of that.

His answer was, "I don't think it's a good use of someone's time to record meeting notes."

This was a meeting that involved about 12 people, 9 of which had no real say in the matter (field techs, etc).