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Honest question: Do you actually enjoy this (or any similar) kind of remote team event via Zoom? To me at least this seems like a properly dystopian future.

k3liutZu 5y ago
I mean, what are you going to do in a lockdown? We did "meet" a couple of times for remote beer last year with the rest of the team. It's not like going out, but it was better than nothing to spend some off-work time with the colleagues.
- EdwardDiego 5y ago
  > I mean, what are you going to do in a lockdown? Anything but trying to be social on a medium designed for speaking one at a time.
- jMyles 5y ago
  > I mean, what are you going to do in a lockdown? Ideally, assemble resistance, overcome the lockdown, and implement whatever real, plausible, evidence-based, genuine public health measures are necessary instead.
  - ghaff 5y ago
    Whatever your opinion of restrictions in a given location, I'm pretty sure the right answer isn't to put pressure on people in a job context to ignore restrictions/recommendations/what makes them feel personally comfortable in their own situation to get together with coworkers in person.
    - jMyles 5y ago
      Sure, I didn't mean to suggest it's people's duty to capitalism to gather with coworkers if they don't want to. But in general, if the question is, "how do we accommodate <unsuccessful interdictive intervention whose collateral damage is visited with horrific severity on the most vulnerable in society>", I think that answer is: you don't. You organize and overcome it and speak truth to power.
131012 5y ago
Imagine "living your dream to the fullest" and build this startup. This is the broest SV can get.
- alisonkisk 5y ago
  It's a weekend project to advertise their marketing company, not a lifelong endeavor. I know plenty of women who eat pizza, "bro".
- kzzzznot 5y ago
  I was hoping it was an April’s fools from earlier this year.
EdwardDiego 5y ago
No. I've been studiously avoiding the local lockdown Friday 4:30pm "drinking together on video" events. Work events are already awkward enough as it is, at least in real life you can have multiple concurrent conversations going on. Using $Video_call_tech, it's predicated on one person talking at a time.
- enumjorge 5y ago
  Want to hear something worse? If you keep scrolling, the page mentions other types of events your team can hire including a “stand up comedian”, which sounds like my personal hell. Social Zoom meetings are already awkward for the reasons you mentioned, then on top imagine having to laugh politely at some C-rate comedian (you know they’re not getting headliners) doing material that needs to be clean enough to be appropriate at a work event. Just an astoundingly bad idea.
  - EdwardDiego 5y ago
    Apparently they also offer group yoga. I'm totally sure downward dogging over a group video call is not going to be as awkward as hell, and will definitely realign my chakras... ...to point towards other career opportunities.
    - prox 5y ago
      Damn, so not a good idea… and I was thinking of getting pizzayogaonline.com ! :)
      - EdwardDiego 5y ago
        Look, if hot yoga can be a thing, pizza yoga can be a thing. I look forward to seeing pizzayogaonline.com in the next YCombinator batch :D
- vanilla_nut 5y ago
  I wish we could play some kind of video game instead that provides proximity chat to players, like Minecraft or something else with a low barrier to entry. Do away with the video entirely and just let me talk to people and maybe do something fun besides.
JohnFen 5y ago
No. I find Zoom (and the like) to be generally painful. The less of it, the better.
rvnx 5y ago
No.
gus_massa 5y ago
I have a weekly meeting with ~10 friends by Zoom. During the lockdown it's impossible to meet IRL, and we are distributed in ~4 countries, so we are even meeting more than before.
- bob229 5y ago
  Lockdowns are fascism
newsclues 5y ago
Not really. If it’s voluntary perhaps, but mandatory crap like this sucks. If people want this, they are welcome to join but don’t force social community at work.
skeeter2020 5y ago
Online social events are neither social nor events. What is physically a mingling cocktail party feels like an AA meeting.

k3liutZu 5y ago

I mean, what are you going to do in a lockdown? We did "meet" a couple of times for remote beer last year with the rest of the team. It's not like going out, but it was better than nothing to spend some off-work time with the colleagues.

EdwardDiego 5y ago
> I mean, what are you going to do in a lockdown? Anything but trying to be social on a medium designed for speaking one at a time.
jMyles 5y ago
> I mean, what are you going to do in a lockdown? Ideally, assemble resistance, overcome the lockdown, and implement whatever real, plausible, evidence-based, genuine public health measures are necessary instead.
- ghaff 5y ago
  Whatever your opinion of restrictions in a given location, I'm pretty sure the right answer isn't to put pressure on people in a job context to ignore restrictions/recommendations/what makes them feel personally comfortable in their own situation to get together with coworkers in person.
  - jMyles 5y ago
    Sure, I didn't mean to suggest it's people's duty to capitalism to gather with coworkers if they don't want to. But in general, if the question is, "how do we accommodate <unsuccessful interdictive intervention whose collateral damage is visited with horrific severity on the most vulnerable in society>", I think that answer is: you don't. You organize and overcome it and speak truth to power.

131012 5y ago

Imagine "living your dream to the fullest" and build this startup. This is the broest SV can get.

alisonkisk 5y ago
It's a weekend project to advertise their marketing company, not a lifelong endeavor. I know plenty of women who eat pizza, "bro".
kzzzznot 5y ago
I was hoping it was an April’s fools from earlier this year.

EdwardDiego 5y ago

No. I've been studiously avoiding the local lockdown Friday 4:30pm "drinking together on video" events. Work events are already awkward enough as it is, at least in real life you can have multiple concurrent conversations going on. Using $Video_call_tech, it's predicated on one person talking at a time.

enumjorge 5y ago
Want to hear something worse? If you keep scrolling, the page mentions other types of events your team can hire including a “stand up comedian”, which sounds like my personal hell. Social Zoom meetings are already awkward for the reasons you mentioned, then on top imagine having to laugh politely at some C-rate comedian (you know they’re not getting headliners) doing material that needs to be clean enough to be appropriate at a work event. Just an astoundingly bad idea.
- EdwardDiego 5y ago
  Apparently they also offer group yoga. I'm totally sure downward dogging over a group video call is not going to be as awkward as hell, and will definitely realign my chakras... ...to point towards other career opportunities.
  - prox 5y ago
    Damn, so not a good idea… and I was thinking of getting pizzayogaonline.com ! :)
    - EdwardDiego 5y ago
      Look, if hot yoga can be a thing, pizza yoga can be a thing. I look forward to seeing pizzayogaonline.com in the next YCombinator batch :D
vanilla_nut 5y ago
I wish we could play some kind of video game instead that provides proximity chat to players, like Minecraft or something else with a low barrier to entry. Do away with the video entirely and just let me talk to people and maybe do something fun besides.

JohnFen 5y ago

No. I find Zoom (and the like) to be generally painful. The less of it, the better.

rvnx 5y ago

No.

gus_massa 5y ago

I have a weekly meeting with ~10 friends by Zoom. During the lockdown it's impossible to meet IRL, and we are distributed in ~4 countries, so we are even meeting more than before.

bob229 5y ago
Lockdowns are fascism

newsclues 5y ago

Not really. If it’s voluntary perhaps, but mandatory crap like this sucks. If people want this, they are welcome to join but don’t force social community at work.

skeeter2020 5y ago

Online social events are neither social nor events. What is physically a mingling cocktail party feels like an AA meeting.