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kitewithfish) wrote2020-03-16 11:21 am
kitewithfish) wrote2020-03-16 11:21 am
Video Conferencing has entered my work's toolbox, and other near apocalypse shifts
The husbeast and I are both going to be working from home for the foreseeable future. There are some updates!
My job has a lot of people who have never used video conferencing unless it was set up for them by their admin staff, and now a lot of them are working from home and it's a fascinating cultural shift to watch.
-People have a WIDE variety of social norms about greeting people in a large meeting as they enter the group chat.
-Many people do NOT know how to mute their mics or turn off their cameras
-People do NOT know universally how to get their cameras set up
-Meeting people's pets is the best part of this shift.
I am really, really put off by business language that talks about this situation as "an opportunity." Just feels really tone deaf to me.
Some other updates:
- A DOG HAS BEEN PICKED! We have met and picked a shelter dog to adopt, we need to have a meeting with a behavioral specialist to talk about some of her issues - she was starved, so she now has a lot of anxiety about food and will guard her bowl. She's semi-housebroken and we have some options there that will help.
- We have purchased a lot of dog stuff online to be delivered. Hopefully, before the dog.
- We have bitten the bullet and purchased a proper desk and office chair to outfit the small bedroom/office space, which will go to the person in the house who has the most video conferencing to do in a given day.
My job has a lot of people who have never used video conferencing unless it was set up for them by their admin staff, and now a lot of them are working from home and it's a fascinating cultural shift to watch.
-People have a WIDE variety of social norms about greeting people in a large meeting as they enter the group chat.
-Many people do NOT know how to mute their mics or turn off their cameras
-People do NOT know universally how to get their cameras set up
-Meeting people's pets is the best part of this shift.
I am really, really put off by business language that talks about this situation as "an opportunity." Just feels really tone deaf to me.
Some other updates:
- A DOG HAS BEEN PICKED! We have met and picked a shelter dog to adopt, we need to have a meeting with a behavioral specialist to talk about some of her issues - she was starved, so she now has a lot of anxiety about food and will guard her bowl. She's semi-housebroken and we have some options there that will help.
- We have purchased a lot of dog stuff online to be delivered. Hopefully, before the dog.
- We have bitten the bullet and purchased a proper desk and office chair to outfit the small bedroom/office space, which will go to the person in the house who has the most video conferencing to do in a given day.
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I got an email last week from a website with the subject "Big crisis, bigger opportunity" and the first thing I saw when I opened the damn thing was big block text saying that "hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." Absolute trash.
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