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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 lea

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.
- jaden 5y ago
  That's a great idea. We've been trying to find a better way to socialize as a remote team and playing a casual video game with local chat is brilliant.
- EdwardDiego 5y ago
  Actually, that's not a bad idea at all. I'd rather talking alongside each other in a game,than staring into a camera, hoping you're making eye contact and failing.

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.

jaden 5y ago
That's a great idea. We've been trying to find a better way to socialize as a remote team and playing a casual video game with local chat is brilliant.
EdwardDiego 5y ago
Actually, that's not a bad idea at all. I'd rather talking alongside each other in a game,than staring into a camera, hoping you're making eye contact and failing.