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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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Samtheperson 4 years ago
I have more on this: good doggo has unanimously been voted CEO of the company
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Karen Grace 4 years ago
Gorilla wins because he has a radioactive beam in addition to brute force whereas Kong is basically just brute force.
Walter 4 years ago
if you've seen monke swim video you know monke can swim so big monke kill big lizard before he even leave water
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.”
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kasa alex 4 years ago
Omg...so that's why random people's names get lit up in Zoom calls even though they aren't speaking...
A_BadlyDrawnBearPic 4 years ago
When I'm sure I'm muted sometimes my teacher's like: Hey you, you're not muted Like wtf
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Random Anon 4 years ago
I always go on mute when I don't need to speak. Doggo barking, neighbor yelling at kids, occasional older aunty talking to her husband...
Henry Shane 4 years ago
My Info Systems instructor was giving a lesson. As she was doing it she leaned over slightly and you could hear a soft pfft. and she just continued as normal. We can only assume she forgot she was on camera..which is odd since they all always have them on.
Tacos Are Tasty 4 years ago
This is another great benefit to having pets because you can ALWAYS blame them, lol!
Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
This is so damn funny !! Next time just look off screen like you're looking at somebody and say "they just heard that. You're gross" lol
“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.”
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로희 4 years ago
Haha, same. The first time I was stuck in such situation I panically unplug the LAN cable.
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HufflePuffleGothleGay 4 years ago
i have a badger on my lap for emoitenal support in my zoom lessons and one time i was stretching and everyone saw and wanted to see him
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Julie C Rose 4 years ago
Or the time my family’s cat jumped up on my desk and meowed for attention.
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Sue Hazlewood 4 years ago
Have done this but you have to be careful not to burst out laughing
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Marie 4 years ago
My 50+ year old boss forgets he has his camera on and eyerolls the project manager.
Rosie Hamilton 4 years ago
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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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Cellphone texts? Then again, that puts potentially incriminating opinions into writing, and you don’t want that stuff in writing.
Kiki 4 years ago
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 :)
Allison Zollars 4 years ago
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 🥴
Timothy Patel 4 years ago
Private messages can be downloaded by the host, be careful what you type even privately.
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Lsai Aeon 4 years ago
right, but do you want the black fuzzy idiot or the orange and white fuzzy idiot?
WillemPenn 4 years ago
OMG, all my cat gives is brown eye. Walks right across my laptop and pushes her b******e against the camera. She also has a very unfortunate hair color/pattern that makes it look like she has continence issues. Nobody wants to see more of my cat.
Susan Reid Smith 4 years ago
When my cat doesn't show up, I put up a photo of the cats up as my background.
Toast Of Saint Louis 4 years ago
There is also WAH or Work at Home. So if you see that, you'll know what it means.
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DforDory 4 years ago
Somewhere in the world it's already afternoon,so you can have a drink at any time 😉
Rosie Hamilton 4 years ago
Must be weird in our house, partner will ask if I want a drink and I always assume I'm being offered tea or coffee if it is 9am!
Lynne Stankard 4 years ago
My favourite comeback when someone comments on my drink - 'Suck it up buttercup - It's 5 o'clock somewhere'
Sawyer Kidder31148 4 years ago
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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Sum Guy 4 years ago
Hahaha... why do we feel the need to wave at all after any type of video call
White Paper Tsuru 4 years ago
I wave so I don't have to waste the effort of hitting the mic button to say bye
Rosie Hamilton 4 years ago
Me too, also says hello without interrupting others.
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Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
A lot of them don't even have to be an e-mail. They could just be a chat message.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
That’s fewer than 3 emails per day, every day of the year. So hell yeah I’m taking the emails.
Yong-Sheng Lin 4 years ago
software engineer @Zoom: hmm... we should have an achievement system in Zoom, like 1000 Zoom calls, 1000 fart sound heard, 1000 time cat/dog/baby enters call by accident, etc.
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White Paper Tsuru 4 years ago
Or better yet, your cat wakes you one minute after your zoom meeting started... like mine did today
Rosie Hamilton 4 years ago
Might have just meant a walk, otherwise agreed.
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Business dress from the waist up - still in PJs and unicorn slippers below the table 😂
mr. cheeto chester 4 years ago
you after: NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW
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.”
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Show everyone the parrot and warn them about the laughing. I’ll bet anything they’ll all start laughing on purpose just to hear the bird laugh. Should lighten the mood in every meeting. They’ll miss it when things finally go back to normal—-and may even ask that you start bringing the parrot to work with you.
Chet Wesley 4 years ago
Haha I thought she meant a talking Alexa parrot from Amazon. Brain dead. Lol.
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
lmao, my b&g constantly says "Hello" or my fave "Hello Baby" when she hears anything that remotely sounds like a cellphone, so when fiance is on line doing his work stuff and she hears it, she says "Hello Baby" and his clients are like "ummmm" and then he has to explain we have Macaws lol. Almost everyone loves it and gets a kick out of it, the ones that don't well they don't deserve a Hello Baby from Wendy and they need to re-evaluate their life.
Tacos Are Tasty 4 years ago
My African grey has cusses, barks, clucks and meows, in addition to the many fun noises he hears and repeats, lol! Never a dull moment!
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
You would probably find that those 10 minute meetings would have lasted 30 if it wasn't for your parrot making the others feel like they work for a Bond villain
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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
They probably did after displaying the ability to remain calm and professional and able to complete tasks under extreme pressure and chaos
Load More Replies... Lsai Aeon 4 years ago
The "q2h" reference tells me this was a medical job and for those wondering q2h is every 2 hours
Parmeisan 4 years ago
Thank you... came down to see if anyone had explained that yet, or if I was going to have to look it up and post my findings
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General kenobi 4 years ago
This isn’t exactly it, but the husbands but was shown during the zoom call and there was a bunch of other problems during that.
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sturmwesen 4 years ago
And when you try to smile and look normal you...look maniac or constipated.
earringnut 4 years ago
When you apply your lipstick make your top lip a little narrower than the bottom lip. It makes a downturned mouth less obvious.
Monic Krugell 4 years ago
or seeing that I don't hide my facial expressions as well as I thought.... Wow! I apparently experience more feelings in a single meeting than I ever thought..... (No one should see themselves rolling their eyes...)
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Luna Lovegood! 4 years ago
why would i solve my problems in life instead of complaining about them?? where's the fun in that?
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sjfhwgefwefyqjwhjbcsacvjhwgdej 4 years ago
Should I be worried that the person who made this post has a very, very, VERY similar name as my bestie? Same last name and one letter changed for the first name...
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.
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Sum Guy 4 years ago
before last year, i didn't even video call family and friends... now everything is a video call
backatya 4 years ago
You'd probably say I'm lucky because I can't get anyone family or friend to video call to save my life
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
All my husband's work calls, training sessions etc have been audio only, which I think everyone is quite happy with.
Mathieu Brouwers 4 years ago
Have you guys heard of a slide rule? We did not need a pocket calculator! Funny thing, the calculator is integrated in my phone now a days.
Barbara Vandewalle 4 years ago
Audio conference calls have been around for decades. No embarrassing oops
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NaruTheCollective 4 years ago
Or hitting space bar key to mute and unmute but it turns the camera on and off.
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Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
Webster dictionary people? Do you see this? Make automagically a word please. Thank you! (See, I even said thank you and typed out please instead of writing pls. That is how you know I'm serious)
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Leeh Colorada 4 years ago
My boss did 3 meeting rooms to continue the meeting. Yes. She's horrible
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zims 4 years ago
For a second I forgot # also meant pound, so I was like "This person has had a hundred and thirty dogs?!"
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Let them in on it. Show them the dog, especially when he’s snoring, and I guarantee it will be the highlight of every zoom meeting from now on.
matthew owen 4 years ago
Wouldn't using £ be better, but I don't understand why the dogs cost is relevant?
matthew owen 4 years ago
Just realised, it's an American using imperial measurements innit.
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Lexi Mitchell 4 years ago
I had a zoom conference last week, my dog just complains loudly outside the door when she wants in. Just discontented dog grumbles.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
My cat sticked his butt on the camera first time I taught classes online. Students still remember it...
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
"cat" and "master" are words that don't belong in each others' vicinity.
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Draco Malfoy 4 years ago
So they don't start yelling your name again to make sure
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third molar 4 years ago
More worse is to unmute and then laugh for your boss's joke and then mute again...
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BananaJo 4 years ago
They forgot "akward wave when you're trying to find the 'leave meeting' button"
Cat 4 years ago
And "awkward silence when the teacher asks u a question that u don't know and ur trying to find the page where it says the answer"
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thetacotruckman 4 years ago
you forgot loud whistling sound because you computer can't handle one person talking.
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Demon Child 4 years ago
🤷I think its when you pour water on yourself, but its an old practice that should be outlawed because its scientifically proven to remove our protective layers of dirt
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Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 4 years ago
i will wear an 'outside' hat before i will wash my hair for zoom
Hailey Brown 4 years ago
On the other end of that, the absolute worst thing is when you wake up a minute before class starts and the teacher says; “Can I have everyone flip their camera on?”
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Amelia Bedelia 4 years ago
I usually get my mom's ear, or if I'm lucky, a whole half of her face.
Ednineson Vertus 4 years ago
how do you get her ear is she like lying down on her side
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Rosie Hamilton 4 years ago
Seen the one with the bird playing peekaboo in a newspaper? So cute.
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Candace Alagappan 4 years ago
Or even when the teacher asks, "Ok. You understand? You get it?" Then unmuting your mic to say "Yes/Yup/Ok"". Then they say "ok"
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 4 years ago
And always mute when you go potty. No one wants to hear you flush
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NaruTheCollective 4 years ago
Me during classes but having to run back to the screen when the teacher calls on me.
cookie panda 4 years ago
me: HEALER HEALER IM GOING DOWN OH GODS I THOUGHT YOU COULD CARRY THIS TEAM LIAR AAAHH IM DOWN IM DOWN! WAIT CAKE THERES STILL HOPE YOU GOT THIS GO GO GO GOOOOO my teacher: please turn on your camera
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Jennifer Norton 4 years ago
on teams you can mute people and at the company I work for we have a handful of people that always have to be muted. It's crazy
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
Microsoft Teams has a "Mute All Participants" button and it's the greatest thing ever.
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AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
This cracks me up, honestly who cares if they can hear a toilet or other stuff? You are a human being, in case you needed to hear that today. You have functions and needs. It's fine. No one cares I promise.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
My husband will go to the bathroom while I'm on my WFH calls and not warn me. I'm now the toilet girl of the company.
UncleRussian 4 years ago
Look I know someone who during a stream had his mic on specifically so that people could hear him pee in the toilet bowl. The guy who was streaming had like 3-5k viewers watching him. So this is fine
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Ritzhoneey 4 years ago
every so often, blow into the mug as you would a hot cup of coffee.. really sells it to the team !
June 4 years ago
But don't refill. Not in sight. DON'T. ABORT THE MISSION.
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A.M. Pierre 4 years ago
If they aren't seen on video, this person drinks wine from a wine glass during the zoom call. If they're on video, they still drink wine but they hide it by drinking it from a coffee cup.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I did it with one of my classmates. For my defense, it was only one time, and he is really cute.
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Helen Haley 4 years ago
You know, I hadn't thought about that. i am HORRIBLE at reading people. This would be an excellent time to do just that. Study facial expressions, get better at reading people. Ok, I'm totally doing that now.
Sarah Purdy 4 years ago
This is why I'm extremely grateful for professors that don't require you to have your video on as long as you're contributing via chat!
xHinatax 4 years ago
I’m an assistant floater in school, mostly in K and 1st grades. Many kids will do this to the teachers or their friends in the same class. Then they find that friend, get up and shout “Look! So-n-so, you’re on my screen!!” And the other kid gets excited or embarrassed an it’s the funniest thing to watch... but then getting them refocused on the zoom properly takes forever, lol.
Ednineson Vertus 4 years ago (edited)
I play this game where I would randomly choose a person and put them on full screen for the entire meeting unless my teacher is presenting then I can't
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Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago (edited)
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.
Among Us 4 years ago
I just go in and then forget about the meeting until someone talks.
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Tamsin Far 4 years ago
Honestly.. best meetings are when everyone is just silently waiting for the responsible to start the meeting and you just hear everyone working in the background. This absolutely great moment when you know you are among people who just want to get a job done.
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Annie Niemands 4 years ago
I'm sorry to be a debbie downer, I'm sure this isn't what anyone want to hear; but there will be more frequent pandemics from now on, warns scientists. The same scientists who warned for years that we're unprepared for a likely soon-to-come viral pandemic. This is because we've crossed a sort of stepping stone, from a combination of deforestation, global transport and travel, and population count. These things make viral evolution and spread accelerate. So maybe in 2040 we will have 2020 party themes, but then in 2041 we might have another pandemic. Hopefully it will be a much longer pause!
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Martha Murphy 4 years ago
I drove all the way across town to my daughter's house to crash her Zoom meeting!
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Candace Alagappan 4 years ago
plot twist: you can't find the mic, and you do your fake laugh thingy 20 seconds after everyone else! THE HORROR!!
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Lion's Stare 4 years ago
As a teacher I can relate to this. It's obscene the amount of programs that we had to use to accommodate virtual learning
Faith Hurst 4 years ago
Or you just use one platform as a link to all others and kids save their login info the first time. We've been doing this for a year and we are pros. Google Classroom-look for today and we will use the stuff there in order.
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Eric Lafleur 4 years ago
And that you realy, realy need to escape from that mad house.
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Eric Lafleur 4 years ago
I know this was meant to be sarcastic but I once told my young daughter, who complained about the stinky garbage truck that the day they stop working, it will get so much worse. I'd rather be out on those trucks than working office job.
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Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
Interesting fact: You can say "excuse me a second" to your colleagues on zoom, then stand up and walk towards your child and take the gun away.
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Sounds like the burden of proof is on you. Do you have a link to relevant studies?
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Monic Krugell 4 years ago
so I forgot to re-mute myself and then only realized that 40 people were listening to my son and me argue about the fact that his pants won't fit because he is trying to put on his brother's pants when everyone started laughing.... My colleagues knows way to much about what goes on in my house after we started working from home... so I empathize completely.
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Random Anon 4 years ago
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.
Sarah Purdy 4 years ago
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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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
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.
Doggo Froggo 4 years ago (edited)
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.
Rosie Hamilton 4 years ago
Mine are mostly social and a really good laugh fortunately,.
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Uncommon Boston 4 years ago
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.
Blue of the yams 4 years ago
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.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
I will take these struggles over working in busy distracting offices any day.
Unaffected 4 years ago
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 :)
Random Anon 4 years ago
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.
Sarah Purdy 4 years ago
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... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
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.
Doggo Froggo 4 years ago (edited)
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.
Rosie Hamilton 4 years ago
Mine are mostly social and a really good laugh fortunately,.
Load More Replies... Uncommon Boston 4 years ago
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.
Blue of the yams 4 years ago
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.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
I will take these struggles over working in busy distracting offices any day.
Unaffected 4 years ago
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 :)
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