Zoom fatigue
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I spent 4 hours on it on one occasion for a board meeting and was ok, but relieved that such a thing happens only once a quarter.
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If you turn on video, you will have to care about how you "look" to others. If that's how you are expected to do Zoom, I feel for you. For me, I turn off video almost all the time. I do Zoom using my phone and a pair of ear buds. I change postures/positions and I walk around when I do Zoom, only at my laptop when I need to do screen sharing. If I only need to look at someone else's screen, sometimes I can get away with an iPad that I can take and walk around with me. Being able to change posture and being able to walk around reduce fatigue.
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Video on is the norm (which is a new thing for us - we were pretty VC-allergic before this).
Our content and output is slides - so the screen just goes hand in hand with video conferencing. For one on ones without materials to share, I always prefer the phone.
I really am looking forward to going back to the office - I'm pretty sick of talking to a screen.
But I agree with you Ax - walking around is key. Unless I'm talking to a client, I'll often pace around while on zoom.
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Zoom calls for me pretty much need to be video, at the request of Management. So I position the camera to only show my face. Then I stretch my legs for 20 minutes at a time. On another screen on my monitor, I watch X-Files episodes.
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@Aqua-Letifer If I'm on a call where I'm not talking... I check out HARD. Unfortunately that's rare
And yes - half the time when I'm wearing a button up shirt, I'm also in boxers with my legs up.
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@xenon said in Zoom fatigue:
@Aqua-Letifer If I'm on a call where I'm not talking... I check out HARD. Unfortunately that's rare
And yes - half the time when I'm wearing a button up shirt, I'm also in boxers with my legs up.
You're a better man than I. For the past 3 or so Zoom meetings I've been wearing the same Purple Rain t-shirt, hiking pants because they're so lightweight, and sandals.
But believe me when I say your meetings are far more important than mine in every sense.
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I'm the asshole who makes everybody have a video meeting every other day. On the plus side, they're normally only 30 minutes long, and I actually don't mind if they don't show up - to be honest, the main reason I have them is to make sure everybody's OK, but I'm not going to tell them that
My boss has one once a week, which is bearable.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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We had a 2 hour HOA board video meeting tonight.
I only turn the camera on when I'm talking.
One guy provided a video feed of him drinking scotch for 2 hours without saying a word. Another showed 2 hours of eating dinner, playing with the dog and walking around the kitchen, without saying a word.
There is always someone with an un-muted mic. Maybe a third of the audio is so broken and scratchy it hurts.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Zoom fatigue:
I'm the asshole who makes everybody have a video meeting every other day. On the plus side, they're normally only 30 minutes long, and I actually don't mind if they don't show up - to be honest, the main reason I have them is to make sure everybody's OK, but I'm not going to tell them that
My boss has one once a week, which is bearable.
My boss started every-other-day video chats with that very intention: check in on folks, see how everyone's doing, ask questions about whatever, vent if needed, etc. Just to keep up some degree of normalcy throughout all of this.
That all went away with our new department head. So, stretching + X-Files it is. I'm on S4E6.
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I'm doing 69 chords on the guitar. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Zoom fatigue:
I'm doing 69 chords on the guitar. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds.
Careful about snapping that G string.
There it is. That's the one joke. Now we can get back to whatever it was we were doing.
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Zoom fatigue:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Zoom fatigue:
I'm doing 69 chords on the guitar. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds.
Careful about snapping that G string.
There it is. That's the one joke. Now we can get back to whatever it was we were doing.
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I'm going to quietly print out a picture of our CEO and hang it on my wall before the next meeting to see if anybody notices.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Zoom fatigue:
I'm going to quietly print out a picture of our CEO and hang it on my wall before the next meeting to see if anybody notices.
Our most-awesome department head told my boss and I that discussing Romero films pre-meeting was unprofessional, so I keep changing my Zoom background to stills from the movies. No zombies in the stills, but half the team knows what I'm up to and they haven't ratted me out yet.
I also keep asking earnestly before the meeting starts if what we're discussing is okay.
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@Mik said in Zoom fatigue:
Control freaks.
Yeah, but not smart ones. Like, smart enough to notice I started using Zoom backgrounds but not at all smart enough to put 2 and 2 together. You wanna lose the one thing you care about as a control-freak manager and risk having a stroke? Keep it up, says I!
