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Since the coronavirus outbreak, more and more people started studying and working from home. Some of them, however, are as tech-savvy as my 89-year-old grandma and are running into some problems.
It's a good thing if your issues revolve around things like setting up your workspace and trying to find out where to plug the wires in. You spend some time googling it and take care of it. But if you can't handle a conference call, I have some bad news for you. Not only will your colleagues make sure you remember it, but they will also probably tell the Internet all about your video call fiasco as well.
From a not-so-secret bathroom trip to a rogue potato boss, here are some of the funny fails people have recorded during their Zoom video chats.
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However, don't let these funny Zoom fails to discourage you from video-calling your colleagues. "Most creativity is done in face-to-face environments," Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University, told Vox. "It encourages you to be ambitious and motivated. Full-time at home can be pretty miserable. Most people don’t enjoy it, you know, week in week out."
The expert predicts that, in general, productivity will be down dramatically. "I think even if this all returns to normal, there’s going to be a long-run cost. 2020 is going to be the year of lost innovation. If you look 10 years from now, there’s going to be a hole in new patents and new products and new ideas and great inventions that just didn’t happen in 2020, 2021. Think of scientists or engineers. How can they work properly at home? They’re being sent home, but I suspect they’re really not being very constructive."
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According to Bloom, the main thing we all can do to counter this is to recreate social contact, ideally using video conferencing, two ways. "For example, the whole group can meet for a 30-minute video chat at 11:00 every day to catch-up on their personal situation, chat about the news or life in general — no work talk." For individual interactions, Bloom said that managers should aim to spend 10 minutes video-talking individually to each of their employees every morning and every afternoon. "This is time-consuming but critical for keeping employees happy and productive through the next few months."
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Jennie-Lind Normand 5 years ago
My daughter is doing some of her school work through google hangouts and our dog is always jumping in and out of the calls, he misses people too!
bdunbar@kcls.org 5 years ago
My group thought I had a baby in my house, it was Cash, my cat. He talks a lot and is noisy
Lynne Stankard 5 years ago
See - show a good person a cat - and that's it - Show Us The Cat!!! BTW - lovely Cat xxx
Parmeisan 5 years ago
I've said to my co-workers, one of the best things about everyone working remotely (in addition to the commute and the quiet) is getting to meet all their pets. One of the guys in our office has an adorable dog named Tesla, I've been hearing about him for a couple of years but now I've gotten to see him too. :)
ALEXANDRIA ISAACKS 5 years ago
Try to do it with one dog, six cats, chickens, and a guinea pig.
GenXandEarnedItAll 5 years ago
Cat says, "Just try and make me leave the meeting. I'll sit on the keyboard and shut down this hooman nonsense right meow!"
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So, I have a parrot and online classes. We are not required to have video in the online class, so we just connect our microphones. Today, my bed, was extremely comfortable. As I got up at 10 am to join the online meeting in Zoom, my bed started calling me. I felt it. I joined, and didn't mute myself. Normally I'd mute myself because I have a parrot. My parrot is an Indian Ringneck, and those bastards are loud af. I decided to fall asleep through the whole class as my bed felt so good. Only after I woke up an hour after the class I realised I was still in the meeting with an unmuted microphone. I texted one of my classmates and they told me they couldn't have a normal class, and the teacher didn't know how to kick me out. They also said they tried talking with the parrot, they told me he said "Hello" and "What you doing" and then proceeded to repeat "ok" for the duration of the class.
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Water Bottle 5 years ago
If these were my classes it would be much, much more than 3 people making noises
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savannah burrows 5 years ago
when your coworkers see what your place looks like on a day to day basis haha
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Bob Beltcher 5 years ago
I haven't shaved in over a week and No longer wear undies. Still make sure to put pants on though.
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SilverRozFox 5 years ago
You can raise hands and so other things on zoom so that it isn't everyone talking at once.
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Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
What gets me about this one is that it's being recorded with a phone camera, so it's clearly not the first time he's done it.
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Tarryn Louise 5 years ago (edited)
Nope, because we are not all faking it and low key hoping people are watching us randomly lifting our shirt over our head for ZERO reason at all. It's just you.
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What do you think ?
mph seti 5 years ago
Be happy you're all still getting paid. Many are not. Never forget your WFH privilege.
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
We are. Just be happy you don't have coronavirus. Just be glad you don't live in Italy. Just be glad you're alive. We can still laugh.
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Erin 5 years ago
This is why I sit with my back to the wall. My dog has interrupted a few calls because he has to help out the firetrucks with their sirens, but seriously...back against a wall for video conference calls.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
I'm at a loss. When I'm on video conference I am hyper aware of what is going on around me.
Troux 5 years ago
It really does help with the human connection. Keeps things a bit 'warmer', even though people are learning for the first time that it is inviting people into your home unless you've got a way to isolate such as a home office away from noise.
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katboxjanitor 5 years ago
Gotta say, most of these seem to be some examples of sheer inattention and not terribly funny.
Eulalie Grace 5 years ago
Shows how alike we all are, and that we are in this together. And it's OK to have a little fun while WFH.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago (edited)
These are funny but do a search for "Zoom app a security disaster" and see for yourself. Their claim to have end-to-end encryption was a total. The url connections are just a series of numbers and can easily be guessed. It's as bad as Grammerly which send everything you type through servers in the Ukraine, a country well known for its hackers.
PikachuTwoKing 4 years ago
Guess i am the only one with normal zoom meetings, except for a few rare instances.
mph seti 5 years ago
Be happy you're all still getting paid. Many are not. Never forget your WFH privilege.
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
We are. Just be happy you don't have coronavirus. Just be glad you don't live in Italy. Just be glad you're alive. We can still laugh.
Load More Replies... Erin 5 years ago
This is why I sit with my back to the wall. My dog has interrupted a few calls because he has to help out the firetrucks with their sirens, but seriously...back against a wall for video conference calls.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
I'm at a loss. When I'm on video conference I am hyper aware of what is going on around me.
Troux 5 years ago
It really does help with the human connection. Keeps things a bit 'warmer', even though people are learning for the first time that it is inviting people into your home unless you've got a way to isolate such as a home office away from noise.
Load More Replies... katboxjanitor 5 years ago
Gotta say, most of these seem to be some examples of sheer inattention and not terribly funny.
Eulalie Grace 5 years ago
Shows how alike we all are, and that we are in this together. And it's OK to have a little fun while WFH.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago (edited)
These are funny but do a search for "Zoom app a security disaster" and see for yourself. Their claim to have end-to-end encryption was a total. The url connections are just a series of numbers and can easily be guessed. It's as bad as Grammerly which send everything you type through servers in the Ukraine, a country well known for its hackers.
PikachuTwoKing 4 years ago
Guess i am the only one with normal zoom meetings, except for a few rare instances.
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