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35 Zoom Memes Shared On This Online Group With Almost A Million Members (New Posts)
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Remember the days when we all were in self-isolation, working, studying, eating, sleeping and spending leisure time in the comfort of our home? That all-too-familiar comfort soon turned into cabin fever, and Zoom became this surreal substitute for real human communication.
Fast forward to today, and there’s still a lot reminiscent of these times – from people rethinking their values to employees switching to remote and hybrid work models. The memes of that time are also not going anywhere, like this Facebook group “Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens.”
Launched on March 12, 2020, the group started as hilarious source of memes and today it’s home to a solid 958.4K members. We wrapped up some new memes from the page that anyone who’s currently under a burden (and a blessing in some other way) of work or studying will relate to. Psst! More Zoom memes can be found in part 1.
Bored Panda also spoke with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, the best-selling author of Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage (Intentional Insights, 2021) and CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts about ways the worldwide pandemic transformed how people work, as well as the benefits of remote work for employees.
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Dr. Gleb Tsipursky explained that prior to the pandemic, the habits and mental models of work centered around a physical space belonging to their employer. “However, during the pandemic, the 56% of all workers who could do their job from home changed their habits and mental models of work to focus on the tasks they did, not where they did these tasks,” Dr. Tsipursky said.
According to the CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, employees learned they can have much more work-life balance, less stress, more happiness, and more time with their family and friends, while still getting all their tasks done.
I still have my book that says if Bob buys 200 potatoes and eats 129 how many potatoes does Bob have
The way the women are looking at him is what makes me believe the title
When asked how remote work benefits employees, Dr. Tsipursky said that the large majority found they really like working from home: that's why 87% of workers would want to work remotely for all or a significant portion of their time, if given the chance.
He explained further: “That's because employees benefit immensely from spending time working remotely. They don't have to spend two hours in traffic every day stuck in a commute. They don't have to put on fancy and uncomfortable clothing, such as hard shoes or heels. They don't have to pay for overpriced lunches in downtown restaurants.”
Instead, Dr. Tsipursky argues, “They can spend much more time with their friends and family. They can have better balance as caretakers of children or elderly, which benefits women especially, since they are still unfortunately the major caretakers in our society.”
Moreover, “remote work is especially desirable for minorities such as African-Americans, since they still face microaggressions and discrimination in the office, as well as for people with disabilities, which is why minorities have a much stronger preference for remote work than white males,” Dr. Tsipursky explained.
While there are so many benefits that come from remote work, it’s no secret that many companies are still reluctant to implement a fully remote work model. Dr. Tsipursky explained that this is because of cognitive biases, which are mental blind spots that lead to poor decisions.
“Many leaders feel a desire to go back to the world before the pandemic. They fall for status quo bias, a desire to maintain or get back to what they see as the appropriate situation and way of doing things.”
Moreover, “a major factor in leaders wanting everyone to return to the office stems from their personal discomfort with work from home. They spent their career surrounded by other people. They want to resume regularly walking the floors, surrounded by the energy of staff working.”
I love in America. We get no vacation time a year. Lucky if we have any PTO and sick days are taboo and can get you knocked hard on a performance review. Hell last week had to go home, fever of 103°F and I have to sign an attendance paperwork for "company records" on that.
Another problem is functional fixedness, Dr. Tsipursky argues. “When we have a certain perception of how systems should work, we ignore other possible functions, uses, and behaviors. We do this even if these new functions, uses, and behaviors offer a better fit for a changed situation and would address our problems better.”
“That's why so many companies are unable to implement effective hybrid work policies and are instead demanding that all employees return to the office,” Dr. Tsipursky concluded.
My biology teacher does this. We will be halfway through the class and he will say something along the lines of, “Ok guys, only 42 more slides to go!”
I use guys for everyone, similarly to the terms dude or bro
bro i was inputting a bunch of names and grades and graduation years and then manually entering all 120 email addresses (based off those things) bc i didn't want to deal with the formula, and then my dad was like NO THIS IWLL BE FASTER and wasted a FULL 30 MINUTES trying to figure out a fkin formula. I completed it manually in literally half that time.
There is a saying in engineering. Why waste a day performing a task, when you can spend a week automating it. I bet your dad had fun figuring it out at least.
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Looks like they never had to use Lotus 123. Excel came as a relief after that.
I was going to say that, Lotus 123 was such a massive pain in the a**e!
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Long ago the head of IT decided on a new uniform naming convention for all 80 computers on our network (early network days). He gave me the new prefix and the ending varied. He wanted a chart showing old names versus new name. He thought I would be tied up for hours. I used the concatenation feature to add the word prefix to a new word ending and put it in a spreadsheet matching with the old name and location with user name. Took 30 minutes and surprised him.
Ahhhh, all of those kids who never had to do everything by hand. They think that entering the data is difficult, and forget that, before Excel (and Quattro, etc), you also had to enter numbers for each calculation, have to calculated the results of every formula by hand, and repeat it by hand for each cell. No, Excel is easy, you all just had teachers who didn't understand spreadsheets teaching you how to use spreadsheets.
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This article is called "38 Zoom Memes..." I looked at the first 10 and could not see any connection to Zoom. I'm confused.
This article is called "38 Zoom Memes..." I looked at the first 10 and could not see any connection to Zoom. I'm confused.
