#17

I absolutely love Big whole staff meetings where I can stream it from my teams app on my phone to my headphones and do the washing up while the head is telling us what is going on (not much tbh)

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#18

Pro

I can watch The Sopranos when on a Zoom which I cant at work.

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#19

Pro - if it’s a meeting you don’t want to be at or don’t consider important, you can turn your camera and mic off and dick about doing other things

Con - When it’s a meeting you actually need some concrete stuff to come out of it, and nobody’s contributing because they’ve all turned their camera and mic off and are dicking about doing other things

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#20

I actually thrive on zooms for some reason whereas standard phonecalls render me an anxious wreck. Think it’s something to do with being able to set my own delays/thinking time, you can’t just sit there saying nothing on a phonecall.

#21

Also, how do you all get away with turning your camera off during meetings? I think my boss would assume I wasn’t paying attention (rightly probably) if I did that.

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#22

Con - Spend more time looking at my stupid face when I have the camera on than anything else.

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#23

Other participants could be fully naked and I’d be more concerned with fixing my hair

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#24

True, and this is potentially a really exciting step forward in working culture right across the country. But it also means employers have less interest in actually hiring people locally: if some businesses go fully WFH and they only ever speak to us on Zoom what’s the point of them paying me 25k when they can pick someone from the far reaches of Europe/US/India to do it for less?

#25

No one has had theirs on for any of our meetings so far, and don’t see anyone making a move to change that

#26

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#27

Just tell people that my internet is running slowly (which it often is)

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#28

We use Skype and Teams, and if everyone has their camera on it massively slows things down so it isn’t encouraged.

#29

Con: finding a good place for your laptop where there’s not light directly behind / copy of GIGANTIC ASSES on the wall

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#30

Pro: judging your colleagues’ taste in interior furnishings and books.

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#31

One of my colleagues (Geordie guy, built like a brick privy) has LIVE LAUGH LOVE carved wooden letters on his wall :smiley:

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#32

A senior manager I have meetings with does hers from her kitchen and did one meeting with an open half bottle of wine on the bench behind her. And she has a really loud dog.

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#33

Cons:

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#34

We’re encouraged to do our Teams meetings outside our Citrix connection, to save the company IT bandwidth. But my boss starts Teams meetings up with a link in an email, where apparently it doesn’t show up as a meeting invite in Teams.

So that doesn’t work.

#35

Cons: forgetting to put myself on mute the whole time whilst coughing my way through every meeting

#36

It’s a fair point. So, a poll. Before covid:

  • I’d never really joined in a Zoom / Skype / Teams call
  • I’d been involved in a handful of conference / video calls, but nothing much
  • I’d been using Zoom / Skype / Teams as a regular part of my work
  • I’d been using Zoom / Skype / Teams almost exclusively for meetings

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