At this point, we’ve seen it all. Attorney-turned-cat tuning into a Zoom court hearing? Check. People showing the reality of their ‘domestically imperfect’ Zoom backgrounds? Yep. Awkward Zoom calls that are too weird for this world? Done.
With the worldwide pandemic changing the ways we interact, remote communication became a salvation until it became a curse. And now, as we've all turned into Zoomers to some degree without being asked if we wanted to or not, the daily online calls, aka “Business on Top, Party on the Bottom” are becoming too much.
So no wonder people suffering from Zoom call exhaustion took it to Twitter to share some of the most painfully accurate tweets about what it feels like when you cannot find an exit button after a 10-hour-long bender. Let’s see some of the most relatable posts right below and be sure to upvote your favorite ones.
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Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, we are on video calls more than ever before, and many find it exhausting. Compared with face-to-face communication, a Zoom call “requires more focus than a face-to-face chat,” said Gianpiero Petriglieri, an associate professor at Insead. In fact, video chats require us to work even harder to process non-verbal cues, and it consumes way more energy than it would normally take.
So, in reality, Zoom fatigue is not only in your head. To find out more about this relatively new condition, Bored Panda reached out to Lina Survila, a global tech PR and chief editor at Abstract Stylist. Lina told us that since Zoom calls are now the “main source of interactions we have with other people,” it has changed our day-to-day lives in such a way that “we never truly get off the screens.”
“Our kids go to school via Zoom, we go to work meetings, and after, we even hang out with friends there,” Lina said and added that it has become “our next social, mental, and even physical problem to solve.” “With emotional health being one of the main topics during the pandemic, people tend to entertain themselves as much as possible to stay positive. But with that being the case, there's also exhaustion.”
Such fatigue manifests in the ways we now consume content online. “We see a positive increase in reading 'slow' content rather than quick news. For example, the most-read content on Abstract Stylist during the pandemic is outgrowing your friends, surviving breakups, and similar.”
Lina added that, “on the other hand, with digital life gone sour, all we can do is laugh and make the most of it.”
Have done this but you have to be careful not to burst out laughing
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My 50+ year old boss forgets he has his camera on and eyerolls the project manager.
I have a really bad one... meeting with colleagues and the chief exec is rolling his eyes and pulling faces when a couple of people are talking. I worked for a charity supporting blind people and, yes, he thought they were both blind. They were not.
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Cellphone texts? Then again, that puts potentially incriminating opinions into writing, and you don’t want that stuff in writing.
In my bachelor year we have a facebook conversation and we use it during EVERY class to comment on everything and we have so much fun!! Better than real class because it's easier ^^. But as teachers like to see our faces and I don't like to let them on their own I always turn my camera on and sometimes it's really difficult to hold a laugh XD. I sometimes had to turn off the camera or laugh on the side so that I was not captured crying laughing ^o^ It actually make some boring classes actually bearable and we became closer :)
That’s when you text your buddy and then watch their face as they read it .... watching for their “trying hard to hide the laugh” face 🥴
Private messages can be downloaded by the host, be careful what you type even privately.
Me and one of my coworkers have signals. An ear tug is like "Can you believe this crap?". A hand resting on the chin is "Let's end this meeting". Playing with our hair is "Here we go again. He won't shut up." The trick is to not smirk when they do it or everyone will figure it out.
Private messaging so much better because you can push others to ask the questions you dare not ask LOL
On the other hand, our intense online presence isn’t the only cause for Zoom fatigue and lockdown, social isolation, and the lack of entertainment are all feeding in. As a result, it no longer matters whether we are introverts or extroverts; people are all getting equally exhausted as the disruption during the unprecedented pandemic has touched virtually everyone.
A lot of them don't even have to be an e-mail. They could just be a chat message.
Or better yet, your cat wakes you one minute after your zoom meeting started... like mine did today
According to Professor Petriglieri, the ways we communicate during a pandemic has our social roles collapsing since everything we do happens in one confined digital space. “Imagine if you go to a bar, and in the same bar, you talk with your professors, meet your parents, or date someone. Isn’t it weird? That's what we're doing now… We are confined in our own space, in the context of a very anxiety-provoking crisis, and our only space for interaction is a computer window.”
Even if we Zoom in to see our friends for a virtual party, it’s essentially the same kind of meeting we had an hour ago with our coworkers. “It doesn't matter whether you call it a virtual happy hour, it's a meeting, because mostly we are used to using these tools for work,” explained Gianpiero Petriglieri. For this reason, it’s becoming almost impossible to shift from the daily tasks and commitments, whether they’re work-related or take your free time.
every so often, blow into the mug as you would a hot cup of coffee.. really sells it to the team !
I pull the "Wait I need to disconnect and re-connect as I need to change to wi-fi!" card. Anything to avoid the odd small talk.
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You don't truly know a person until you have a video call with them, first thing in the morning. Everyone just crawled out of bed 2 minutes ago, craving caffeine and thinking about the leftovers from the previous dinner.
that's so funny because normally I actually want breakfast food but this morning I woke up craving burgers from the night before 😂
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My cats love the era of Zoom. I get zoom-bombed by their zoomies every freakin' time. Now if they don't show up and interrupt the call, people ask if they're okay.
Lmao I am just reading this and have never had a zoom call!!!!! I feel so blessed and so bad for all those who have.
Mine are mostly social and a really good laugh fortunately,.
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The fun of teaching 14-yr-olds this way is we spend 10 minutes of class re-doing attendance 14 times since even though class already started students join when they feel like it, at least 5 to 10 minutes telling them to start using the chat box appropriately, 5 to 10 minutes telling students to stop using the chat box, another 5 to 10 minutes pleading with students to say something or use the chat box, and then another 10 minutes waiting for the student who really wasn't in the room the entire time to log off so you can get to your next class. Somewhere in this is supposed to be some education.
A retired woman I know was complaining loudly about dreading yet another zoom call. These are all family calls. Is she complaining about too much family time? Yup, making everyone else ashamed for only having a few calls a week.
Once upon a time I was on a zoom call. I spoke, then re-muted. There was a dog sleeping nicely in my lap. Then, as if pricked in the rear by a needle, he leaped up and shook like mad. His ear whipped me right in my open eyeball. Profanities were shouted at top volume. Then I heard laughter coming from the polite company on the zoom call. Guess who was not on mute.
I will take these struggles over working in busy distracting offices any day.
I work in aged care.One of the ladies has weekly regular face time with her children.She is over 80. All she wants to do is to say hello and see them for 5 minutes but they go on and on.Said she's sick of them calling her this often :)
once my wi-fi cut off at the EXACT moment the teacher called on me. not a good look.
I have zoom conferences for mental health counseling, but my computer makes so much noise that it disconnects my audio sometimes.
Plus they sometimes mow the courtyard when I’m having my calls. Very helpful.
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I am online right now so now we have to show our whole face because our teacher was cursed at and she doesn’t trust anyone anymore so not my anxiety is skyrocketing now. Thanks a lot.
You don't truly know a person until you have a video call with them, first thing in the morning. Everyone just crawled out of bed 2 minutes ago, craving caffeine and thinking about the leftovers from the previous dinner.
that's so funny because normally I actually want breakfast food but this morning I woke up craving burgers from the night before 😂
Load More Replies... My cats love the era of Zoom. I get zoom-bombed by their zoomies every freakin' time. Now if they don't show up and interrupt the call, people ask if they're okay.
Lmao I am just reading this and have never had a zoom call!!!!! I feel so blessed and so bad for all those who have.
Mine are mostly social and a really good laugh fortunately,.
Load More Replies... The fun of teaching 14-yr-olds this way is we spend 10 minutes of class re-doing attendance 14 times since even though class already started students join when they feel like it, at least 5 to 10 minutes telling them to start using the chat box appropriately, 5 to 10 minutes telling students to stop using the chat box, another 5 to 10 minutes pleading with students to say something or use the chat box, and then another 10 minutes waiting for the student who really wasn't in the room the entire time to log off so you can get to your next class. Somewhere in this is supposed to be some education.
A retired woman I know was complaining loudly about dreading yet another zoom call. These are all family calls. Is she complaining about too much family time? Yup, making everyone else ashamed for only having a few calls a week.
Once upon a time I was on a zoom call. I spoke, then re-muted. There was a dog sleeping nicely in my lap. Then, as if pricked in the rear by a needle, he leaped up and shook like mad. His ear whipped me right in my open eyeball. Profanities were shouted at top volume. Then I heard laughter coming from the polite company on the zoom call. Guess who was not on mute.
I will take these struggles over working in busy distracting offices any day.
I work in aged care.One of the ladies has weekly regular face time with her children.She is over 80. All she wants to do is to say hello and see them for 5 minutes but they go on and on.Said she's sick of them calling her this often :)
once my wi-fi cut off at the EXACT moment the teacher called on me. not a good look.
I have zoom conferences for mental health counseling, but my computer makes so much noise that it disconnects my audio sometimes.
Plus they sometimes mow the courtyard when I’m having my calls. Very helpful.
Load More Replies... I am online right now so now we have to show our whole face because our teacher was cursed at and she doesn’t trust anyone anymore so not my anxiety is skyrocketing now. Thanks a lot.
