To hate the bit of a Teams meeting where you're waiting for everyone to join?

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I'm not great at small talk at the best of times, especially with people senior to me. My strategy to avoid it at the start of a f2f meeting is to ask who wants coffee 😆

In a Teams meeting the 90sec while everyone joins can be excruciating!

With my regular team meetings we have a kind of race going on. We see who is the first to start the meeting at exactly the right time. 9.59 or 10.01 for a 10am meeting just isn't acceptable 😁

I say the most inane shit most of the time... except the other day when I kept myself on mute to finish my coffee, one of my colleagues (whom I have known for aaaaages) was like Bellatrix are you all right? We can't normally shut you up! So I am assume they missed my wibblings about how you can tell the difference between a mule and a donkey or the random wikipedia page I found at 2am 😂

I don’t mind teams meetings, but I hate the camera on….I look worse and worse, and it makes me look more crazed by the moment. 😂😆

Its the worst.

I always always always join late for this very reason.

We have a weekly call for the whole organisation, it's cameras and microphones off thankfully, what annoys me is that at least 50 people will feel the need to say goodbye in the chat box, so you leave and then it's ping ping ping.

If you haven't attended and are on another teams call you have to remember to pop in and leave the chat before it ends.

I try to arrive on time, if it's a big meeting and I'm not chairing I might pop my camera off and go on mute until the chair starts.

I have a colleague who just stares very hard directly down the camera.

Like they're looking for the little people.

Oh good I'm a waver. Why do I do this???

It's absolutely acceptable to mute and turn your camera off or mute and pretend to be on the phone until the meeting starts.

I have the issue the other end, I don't want to be first to leave for looking rude, so end up watching the number of participants gradually fall and then see how long I can tolerate it for until the panic sets in and I click to leave!!!

Sorry no camera or mic - then sit back and chill

I hate the bit where they say “what’s everyone doing this weekend” in a room of ten people. And at least three begin at the same time.

Bye guys, cheers, see you, wave, smile, log off. close lid. Masturbate.

Or something 😁

I wouldn't work for someone like you. I've had nobhead bosses before, that doesn't work for me. Thankfully my organisation is normal and laid back, my meetings are with other senior management and the MD is my boss, who is often 15mins late himself.

The trick is that no one actually cares about what you did last weekend, it's just a conversation opener without going into any private details. You can send the conversation in any direction.

Knowing that a few people join in Team Meetings from meeting rooms in the actual office, I sincerely hope they are not masturbating after every meeting.

Camera off, mic on mute until mtg starts. You can also mute the chit chat in settings. I was so pleased to find that. ( ultra introvert)

I have two screens so I look at the one without the camera and continue to work, it's my way of not making eye contact, as soon as the meeting starts, I look at the screen with the camera on.

Camera and mic off....simples!