Zoom fatigue

Aqua Letifer

@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.

Doctor Phibes

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.

Loki

Yeah, zoom is the new conference call and many one on one calls. Upside is the battery on your phone is getting a major holiday.

Copper

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.

Aqua Letifer

@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.

Doctor Phibes

I'm doing 69 chords on the guitar. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds.

Aqua Letifer

@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.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@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.

laugh

Mik

Doctor Phibes

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.

Aqua Letifer

@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.

Mik

Control freaks.

Aqua Letifer

@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!

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Zoom fatigue