AIBU for being sick of every meeting needing to be a video call?!

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Maybe I'm being precious, but I am really fed up with the constant need for every colleague contact since Covid forced home working having to be done via bloody Zoom. Even the simplest 1-2-1 call now needs to be a video call. I'm stuffed with it being shoved down my throat the whole time. It's hot, I'm not really dressed and I haven't tidied. I also have some sensory issues and don't like video calls.

I could have maybe understood if before this pandemic we were always together in an office doing everything face to face, but my team has been dispersed for years, and before Covid I would perhaps see them all once every three to six months. WFH about three days a week prior to Covid, with team members in different cities.

I don't have an issue with the weekly meeting being via Zoom, but every flipping interaction? It's driving me bonkers and defeats the purpose of being at home somewhat. Before we would just do a quick phone call to talk things through.

AIBU for thinking this constant video chatting is unnecessary and stressful?

YANBU I'm sick to death of teams meetings. I never had this many meetings when I was in the office and just don't see the need for 3-4 hours a day of teams calls every day. They just decrease my productivity as I'm not doing my work whilst on calls. I don't always turn my camera on. It very much depends who my audience is but I'm bloody sick of video calls!

Some of our team meetings now have this almost obligatory section where you talk about your house and show people round.

That’s ridiculous

Some of our team meetings now have this almost obligatory section where you talk about your house and show people round.

Bollocks to that. They can see the books on the shelves behind me, which are mostly history and feminism (because they should all read Delusions of Gender and Invisible Women anyway,) but I am not showing anyone round the house unless they were someone I would invite in anyway - which does include one or two colleagues, but mostly not.

Though my director did show me his bookshelves after I thought I had caught sight of an empty bookshelf behind him. (It wasn't, it was just the angle.) He also has sequinned net curtains, which he claims belong to his daughter.