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Ah, yes, the famously productive Zoom meeting. Barking dogs, construction, echo cancellation artifacts, lag, “no you go ahead,” endless monologues, creepy pseud
by closeparen 5y ago
Ah, yes, the famously productive Zoom meeting. Barking dogs, construction, echo cancellation artifacts, lag, “no you go ahead,” endless monologues, creepy pseudo-ASMR from people’s giant gamer headsets, Bluetooth glitches, “let me try turning off my video” for 6 hours a day. So much fucking value generation. It’s just palpable, isn’t it?
You know, you’re right. It probably is the most efficient way to work, to continuously subject employees to this torture. The problem is I’m a fucking human being and there’s only so much abuse I’m going to take from you. And by being a remote worker you are, necessarily, subjecting your coworkers to this abuse every second they have to work with you. It is inherent to the notion of video calling with consumer-grade hardware on a packet switched network.
- tsunamifury 5y agoDude. Get a new workplace or coworkers then. This sounds awful. Nothing like this where I work. Generally just awesome.
- closeparen 5y agoReally, none of your coworkers have flaky internet or noisy surroundings? None of them are using Bluetooth or onboard microphones or speakers? Is this a company full of audio engineers working from their personal broadcast studios?
- KronisLV 5y ago> Really, none of your coworkers have flaky internet or noisy surroundings? While one shouldn't discount those that are stuck in circumstances like that, no, we don't. And when their surroundings are noisy, they can just mute their microphones until they'd like to say something, which is just basic etiquette for communicating online. Or you can even pic up a microphone with a polar pattern that doesn't pick up much background noise for about 20$, which is what i did.