Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
Ugh. I'm a lab tech. I've been a lab tech even through this mess, going into my (mostly deserted) work when everyone else was working from home. This zoom shit drives me bonkers.
That can work, I guess. The problem with a lot of zoom meetings for me is that being the senior tech in my group, I'm often asked questions and such.
...when the scientists aren't trying to show off their big heads by talking straight for ten minutes.
I read that. I just...ugh, not reading this any more.
Not to go all Rumbles, either; if a writer is going to utterly ignore continuity for the sake of 'I want this to happen' without putting in SOME imagination on how to make their idea 'work' while taking into account the other character, I'm pretty much done.
Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
Yup. It’s nuts. Well, I guess in our case it’s usually Teams meetings, with the occasional Zoom, but the effect is the same.
When we were in the office, if someone wanted to find something out or discuss something, they might walk past my desk, check if I was free, then grab me for 5 minutes and we’d discuss what was needed.
Now, because nobody can see me at my virtual desk (well, it’s an actual desk, but not from their perspective), they book in a half-hour meeting slot. And then because they’ve booked that half-hour, they use it.
I now spend ca. 70% of my working week in meetings. Getting stuff done is problematic.
Exactly. At least try to justify it with plot somehow. If you know ANYTHING about the High Evolutionary other than ‘he evolves stuff’, you know that his armour is RIDICULOUSLY tough to breach.
As in ‘lolnopes Mjolnir’ tough.
And if you can’t be bothered to either learn that much or explain your plot, I can’t be bothered to read you.
We have both. Most of the time we use Teams, but I'm also on the committee for designing our new building, and they use zoom.
That's awful. You have the right to say 'I can't make that meeting, man,' if you have important stuff to do.When we were in the office, if someone wanted to find something out or discuss something, they might walk past my desk, check if I was free, then grab me for 5 minutes and we’d discuss what was needed.
Now, because nobody can see me at my virtual desk (well, it’s an actual desk, but not from their perspective), they book in a half-hour meeting slot. And then because they’ve booked that half-hour, they use it.
I now spend ca. 70% of my working week in meetings. Getting stuff done is problematic.
The guy's tech is right up there with the best. His armor, yeah, same.Exactly. At least try to justify it with plot somehow. If you know ANYTHING about the High Evolutionary other than ‘he evolves stuff’, you know that his armour is RIDICULOUSLY tough to breach.
As in ‘lolnopes Mjolnir’ tough.
And if you can’t be bothered to either learn that much or explain your plot, I can’t be bothered to read you.
Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
I've actually had it the other way round for work from home.
Previously in my job, I work in Dance Education, all the various departments were really bad at speaking to one another. Now, I can just drop a quick "Hey, you in?" to someone on Teams in chat and then we can have that five minute chat on a call without having to go anywhere or find a meeting room or whatever.
It's helped with a lot more candid conversations because people are not in the same room as their bosses and they'll be more honest about what's going on.
I'm hoping that this level of openness to communication carries through to the post-pandemic world as it's been really useful.
Honestly, I'm totally fine with people working from home. I suspect that this has demonstrated that people CAN, and corporations are going to have a harder time selling the whole 'you must come into the office so we can stand behind you and make sure you work.' And also selling the whole 'bwaa, it's too hard to deal with disabilities, we can't doooo it!' asshole ableism they've gone with in the past.
Funny how the moment their profits are on the line because everyone needs to stay home, it's easy to set up systems that disabled people could have been using all along. Almost as though they don't really give a shit about anything but money.
...I just am not fond of zoom meetings, personally. ^_^
Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
For work, most of my Zoom meetings are one-on-one, me and my employer discussing projects that need to be done, and so on. Three is usually the most I've had in a Zoom meeting, and those aren't bad because I'm focused on talking about what needs to be discussed.
The harder Zoom meetings involve outside groups and volunteer activities, those usually involve anywhere from 6 to 36 people at a time, and I'm usually just in the background listening, contributing only occasionally. When that happens, it's easier for me to mute audio and video and step away, since it's unlikely that I would be missing anything important.
If I am actively engaged in the discussion, if it is something I'm interested in, then I have no problem with Zoom. Especially when the weather is bad and the thought of driving to the office is not fun.
The harder Zoom meetings are the ones where I'm just there to listen to other people talk, those can be tedious if not boring.
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Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
Yeesh.
I've never heard of the Sable one, but after a point it gets so egregious that it's so big I can barely see the difference.
B-list street-level fighter bodyslamming a legit Class 100? Human stabbing the High Evolutionary? *wiggles hand* They're both so far past my suspension of disbelief that, as Pendaran might say, I can't see that line with a giant space telescope. Distinction gets a tad blurry. ^_^
Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
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Oh, sweet Lord of Rumbles...! How could you let this happen?
That’s... I mean... wow.
Yeah, that’s definitely in the same ballpark as a human woman stabbing right through the guy who fronted up to Galactus (when he came to devour Counter Earth) and basically said ‘Come at me, Bro’.