#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

#45

Pro: you’re at your computer so you can just carry on getting your work done while you’re in the meeting :+1:

And when I say “can” I do mean can, because I could do that but I’m actually playing Switch.

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#47

kind of miss chatting to people either side of meetings that i wouldnt usually. also quite often get more good work done on my way back to my desk chatting to someone than i do in the meeting coz ive had time to think about it and dont need to say stuff in front of everyone else in the meeting

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#48

But then on the flip side it’s good if you secretly message someone else in the meeting, and then see their face read and react to your message!

#49

i don’t concentrate very well on the two things. would rather do them separately