#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

0 voters

#39

I don’t mind them in theory and I find it much easier than a phone call, but I am usually exhausted afterwards. Yesterday I was in calls the entire morning and most of the afternoon and had to take a nap in between lol

#40

I quite like leaning out of shot then coming back quickly with a hat on or something and seeing if anyone notices. Or changing mug each time I have a fake sip of a drink. Or filling an old Bombay Sapphire bottle full of water and having that. Or rehanging pictures behind me upside down before hand.

I’m basically the office Nigel with a wacky tie.

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#41

when someone in the meeting pm’s, engaging me in a convo and I ain’t good at multitasking, next thing i’m smiling at something they type and everyone can see and I zone back into the meeting where they’re talking about horrific things which it looks like i’m smiling at. that goes in the negative column.

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#42

think they’re pointless. don’t fully understand why its necessary to each others faces unless you’re doing something social that requires it or whatever.

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#43

I had a 3 hour Teams call yesterday. That was a con.

#44

I guess it’s just a flashier way of doing a conference call isn’t it. Teams and Zoom are quite nice in that you can see who’s talking even if their camera isn’t on