Saddo Zoom Meeting: August 1, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. LONDON TIME- All Invited to Attend

[Master]

Not a Zoom meeting. But I wanted to gauge opinion on just how unprofessional this is of me. Today, I held a Teams meeting from the back of my car because I was out shopping. I was the meeting organizer. It's been in the calendar for a week. I was 20 minutes late.

That's acceptable behaviour right?

No way. You need to be fired.

[walrus]

Not a Zoom meeting. But I wanted to gauge opinion on just how unprofessional this is of me. Today, I held a Teams meeting from the back of my car because I was out shopping. I was the meeting organizer. It's been in the calendar for a week. I was 20 minutes late.

That's acceptable behaviour right?

No way. You need to be fired.

Dude I gotta tell you I think it’s kinda common for people to do this shit nowadays. I notice even though it’s zoom and it’s supposed to be face to face half the people are blocking their screens so you will just see a dark box that says “ellas iphone” or some shit. I really think a lot of people are getting sick of it but it is good being that you don’t have to travel to meetings anymore. I think they feel kinda cold and impersonal but we have had some funny ones at work. Peoples cats will stick their face in the screen sometimes

[Master]

Not a Zoom meeting. But I wanted to gauge opinion on just how unprofessional this is of me. Today, I held a Teams meeting from the back of my car because I was out shopping. I was the meeting organizer. It's been in the calendar for a week. I was 20 minutes late.

That's acceptable behaviour right?

No way. You need to be fired.

Dude I gotta tell you I think it’s kinda common for people to do this shit nowadays. I notice even though it’s zoom and it’s supposed to be face to face half the people are blocking their screens so you will just see a dark box that says “ellas iphone” or some shit. I really think a lot of people are getting sick of it but it is good being that you don’t have to travel to meetings anymore. I think they feel kinda cold and impersonal but we have had some funny ones at work. Peoples cats will stick their face in the screen sometimes

Our work does not have the state of the art technology that yours does for zoom/MSTeams/skype meetings we use teleconference on my Nokia mobile.

[Memphis]

Not a Zoom meeting. But I wanted to gauge opinion on just how unprofessional this is of me. Today, I held a Teams meeting from the back of my car because I was out shopping. I was the meeting organizer. It's been in the calendar for a week. I was 20 minutes late.

That's acceptable behaviour right?

No way. You need to be fired.

Dude I gotta tell you I think it’s kinda common for people to do this shit nowadays. I notice even though it’s zoom and it’s supposed to be face to face half the people are blocking their screens so you will just see a dark box that says “ellas iphone” or some shit. I really think a lot of people are getting sick of it but it is good being that you don’t have to travel to meetings anymore. I think they feel kinda cold and impersonal but we have had some funny ones at work. Peoples cats will stick their face in the screen sometimes

Ah yes the pets. We have competitions in work to see who can send in the best pet pic whilst working from home. It was sweet at the start but that kind of shit gets old really quick. I sent in a picture of Dougs arse. He has a pristine arsehole. Didn't make the newsletter.

In my defence. I am trialing a new VPN client that has some wizardry that maintains connection no matter the location, network or cell service. So it was a field test. I'm a terrible employee. Great liar.

[walrus]

Not a Zoom meeting. But I wanted to gauge opinion on just how unprofessional this is of me. Today, I held a Teams meeting from the back of my car because I was out shopping. I was the meeting organizer. It's been in the calendar for a week. I was 20 minutes late.

That's acceptable behaviour right?

No way. You need to be fired.

Dude I gotta tell you I think it’s kinda common for people to do this shit nowadays. I notice even though it’s zoom and it’s supposed to be face to face half the people are blocking their screens so you will just see a dark box that says “ellas iphone” or some shit. I really think a lot of people are getting sick of it but it is good being that you don’t have to travel to meetings anymore. I think they feel kinda cold and impersonal but we have had some funny ones at work. Peoples cats will stick their face in the screen sometimes

Ah yes the pets. We have competitions in work to see who can send in the best pet pic whilst working from home. It was sweet at the start but that kind of shit gets old really quick. I sent in a picture of Dougs arse. He has a pristine arsehole. Didn't make the newsletter.

In my defence. I am trialing a new VPN client that has some wizardry that maintains connection no matter the location, network or cell service. So it was a field test. I'm a terrible employee. Great liar.

Ha yeah my wife is working from home most days although she needs to go in and use the lab a couple times a week. I notice she and her coworkers will give each other warning txts make sure they didn’t fall asleep or order something on amazon etc. I actually go to work everyday and I’ll come home and my wife will tell me “don’t tell anyone but I did a wash while I was supposed to be working.” I ask her who the hell am I going to tell, well apparently I’m telling an international forum. So sorry honey I just told everyone. I was home one day she was “working from home” and I caught her napping at her desk. I found that kind of funny. In her defense though she does work hard from home. She will keep working on programs until 8p sometimes later. She is one of those honest to a fault people and will guilty about doing house work so she will make up the time even if no ones looking. I gotta say if I was working from home I think it would be to distracting, I don’t think I’d do well. I did it for two weeks at the onset of the shutdown and it was a real struggle to stay in that seat in front of the computer.

[Memphis]

I think people give themselves too hard a time over it and feel they have to be glued to a desk for 8 hours none stop. In reality it's not like that in an office so why should it be at home? No one complains about people having a quick chat in the kitchen making a brew. A quick chat about sports or whatever at your desk. I had loads of colleagues doing fantasy football spending hours over their teams and games.

I'm not going to feel guilty about popping to the shops or starting a little late in the morning if it's OK for Sandra to go to her lunchtime yoga class and take an extra 30-40 minutes getting showered and changed then talking about how great yoga class was. If anyone's better half is called Sandra that was purely coincidence. No offence intended

[Beanz]

Harry Redknapp is fuming.

[walrus]

I think people give themselves too hard a time over it and feel they have to be glued to a desk for 8 hours none stop. In reality it's not like that in an office so why should it be at home? No one complains about people having a quick chat in the kitchen making a brew. A quick chat about sports or whatever at your desk. I had loads of colleagues doing fantasy football spending hours over their teams and games.

I'm not going to feel guilty about popping to the shops or starting a little late in the morning if it's OK for Sandra to go to her lunchtime yoga class and take an extra 30-40 minutes getting showered and changed then talking about how great yoga class was. If anyone's better half is called Sandra that was purely coincidence. No offence intended

No me and Sandra aren’t at yoga but I’ll let her tell you the details. I hear you though, I’ll admit I jam out my work, do my traveling, meet who I need to at which point I should go to the office and do paperwork but I’ll admit I’ll hit a park and do a 40 minute hike to clear my head. I don’t think my job is more stressful than anyone else’s but I spent a half hour trying to assure a paranoid schizophrenic no one is poisoning his food. He got all pissed at me and accused me of “being in on it” I went to the park as I had to think about having the dude hospitalized. If I did that it would seriously screw up his trust level with me and I would have to start from scratch building trust with him that took me six months to develop. You may now something about paranoid schizophrenics for all I know but what I was doing by almost “arguing” with him about the poison is the same as me telling you right now this forum doesn’t exist. That’s how real the delusions are in their mind. In the end I just documented the whole thing and wrote “monitor him closely on the weekend” if you hospitalize a paranoid schizophrenic over every delusion the poor sobs will always be in the hospital. So that’s the call I made, I’m not 100% sure it was the right one. I am on “covid call” tomorrow so I might go in for an hour check in on him. If you are interested in psychology paranoid schizophrenia is probably the most fascinating illness to work with unfortunately it’s not a study session these are real humans suffering from this shit. It really is horrible and this dude is on so much medication his shrink had to sign a waiver with the insurance company as he is on enough shit to knock the next six people who read this out yet the delusions still pop through. It truly is sad shit.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Yeah, some people have family members with that, or have been in long-term relationships with people with that. I myself was in a 2 year relationship with a paranoid schizophrenic from 2001-2003. The woman was 13 years older than me. I dealt with this 24 hours a day for 2 years straight.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Not a Zoom meeting. But I wanted to gauge opinion on just how unprofessional this is of me. Today, I held a Teams meeting from the back of my car because I was out shopping. I was the meeting organizer. It's been in the calendar for a week. I was 20 minutes late.

That's acceptable behaviour right?

No way. You need to be fired.

Dude I gotta tell you I think it’s kinda common for people to do this shit nowadays. I notice even though it’s zoom and it’s supposed to be face to face half the people are blocking their screens so you will just see a dark box that says “ellas iphone” or some shit. I really think a lot of people are getting sick of it but it is good being that you don’t have to travel to meetings anymore. I think they feel kinda cold and impersonal but we have had some funny ones at work. Peoples cats will stick their face in the screen sometimes

Ah yes the pets. We have competitions in work to see who can send in the best pet pic whilst working from home. It was sweet at the start but that kind of shit gets old really quick. I sent in a picture of Dougs arse. He has a pristine arsehole. Didn't make the newsletter.

In my defence. I am trialing a new VPN client that has some wizardry that maintains connection no matter the location, network or cell service. So it was a field test. I'm a terrible employee. Great liar.

I know a Turkish guy who is going to be asking you about this VPN stuff tomorrow.