a waste of energy

A useless, vain, or redundant effort or action. It turns out the boss had already chosen a direction for the project, so my presentation was a complete waste of energy.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ferenc	FE-rents	Hungarian
Rainard	-	Ancient Germanic
Salamon	-	Hungarian
Alexios	-	Ancient Greek
&Thorn;ÓRgÍSl	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Rakel	RAH-kel (Norwegian, Danish, Swedish)	Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic