Zoom etiquette

[zoomfira]

What are your pet peeves when it comes to zoom/teams/google meetings?

I ask because I'm getting so tired of people bulldozing their way through a meeting, not listening, talking over people and generally acting a bit aggressive in their approach.

I feel like giving up with these people, turn my video off and not say anything.

Possibly just suffering from zoom fatigue and being back to back but wouldn't it be nice if people softened up a bit, a little calmer and patient on such video calls? I'm so sick of it. They would never act like that in person I'm sure.

@WindsorBlues you poor thing, having to attend meetings while puking

@Marmalady75 I think housework woman has hacked zoom meetings that she clearly wasn't needed for

@zoomfira

Your "meeting etiquette" sounds suitable for if you're working in an office, not from home, during a pandemic. i have a cat that will scratch up my carpets and a dog that will howl for hours if shut out of the room I am in. Occasionally there will be a furry visitor to a zoom call. I'll ignore it and I expect my college to be able to do so too. I don't have kids but fully understand that those who do will sometimes have a child interrupting their zoom. The most ergonomic place for me to set up desk and work does not have a background that virtual backgrounds can handle. I expect my colleagues to understand and be okay with a tidy-ish room in the background, even if it's a bedroom. Because I'm not in an office, or even working from home by choice - I'm making do working from home because there's a global pandemic on. I have a partner working in another room. I have pets, and many people have children. Deal with it.

I fucking hate being forced to look at somebody with a grainy virtual background which doesn't quite follow their outline properly, or one of those god awful moving smoke ones, because it's so very distracting and tiring on the eyes. I find it quickly tiring to be confronted with all these people sitting square on to the camera and knowing that I'm on display like that too. Zoom fatigue is well known - very few meetings need cameras to be on. Let people switch the damn things off if they prefer.

Me too, what a shame, eh?

I was working full time at the start of lockdown and meetings for work were fine. Cameras on but microphones muted, and it was basically just the boss talking as she was giving us updates on stats/deadlines/general stuff going on. She'd then go around us one by one to ask how we were getting on, had any issues come up, etc.

A month ago I started university full time so I've been attending lots of virtual seminars/training/induction things, which have not been as smooth. One person in particular keeps joining meetings late with no apology or explanation, has a consistently terrible internet connection and refuses to turn their video off (which would stabilise it and stop their audio being so patchy), and always asks questions that have been covered in depth before they arrived

letmethinkaboutitfornow - I’m glad we don’t have zoom! They are increasing bandwidth on the network next year as WFH is going to be permanent. Skype calls and meetings where you share screens work just as well.

Zoom is a flop