Work - The pros and the cons... - The Bear and Badger

Armitage_Shankburn

Just go for it, you're an excellent fit.

Armitage_Shankburn

JonB wrote:

Elmlea wrote:

JonB wrote:

Saw a Twitter post from a company looking for someone to proof read game dialogue, being written by a Spanish writer in English, if that's up your street? Can't remember who retweeted it.

That would work, yeah. Any way you could find it?

@JonB https://twitter.com/Deconstructeam/status/1273199547083259904?s=20

That looks like a decent gig, thanks. Not sure I'll be quite right for it, but worth a shot.

Meant to be @ this.

As bad as I have it, I'm on full pay. I do remind myself that I am lucky.

EvilRedEye

Apparently Zoom meetings are very tiring because your brain is doing overtime trying to pick up subtle social cues that are obscured by the video feed.

regmcfly

You're missing on social cues that are non verbal and you're also hyper aware of your own cues which would be natural. I'm fucking exhausted and going to bed now.

Syph79

EvilRedEye wrote:

Apparently Zoom meetings are very tiring because your brain is doing overtime trying to pick up subtle social cues that are obscured by the video feed.

You’re also looking at everyone at once, whereas face to face, you’ll often focus on one or two people at a time. It’s tired me out too.

LivDiv

I'm guessing you guys doing these all day zoom meetings arent used to staring at a screen all day either.
I know it is tough with scheduled meetings but it's really important to take breaks.

Us nerds that spend all day attached to computers normally have our built in routines.

poprock

The Zoom thing fucks me up too. I’ve intentionally cut down on it now. Mid-lockdown I was doing one or two long calls of around two hours as well as anything up to 10 shorter ones of 15–30 mins – every day – then having to work into the night to actually get shit done.

My turnaround came when my MD called me out for being bad-tempered on a call. I snapped and told her I was burned out from constant video chats and needed to make time for myself.

Diluted Dante

I'm glad I don't have to do that shit.

Dinostar77

Armitage_Shankburn wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

It's a weird thing in my but of teaching Vs normal teachers but before he holidays the work piles up rather than down as we worry about vulnerable kids over Summer.

Today I've had 5 meetings throughout the day between 90 mins to 2 hours , which would be an anomaly during normal school time, but I've also had the screen time. A weird thing we have commented on is that during, say a Teams meeting, you are on hyperawareness that wouldn't be in place in other meetings. That's because you can see yourself and your own facial reactions, so there is an extra level of performative was.

I'm fucking exhausted. And yet the young people I met today were so wonderful, articulate and i just want them to succeed.

I almost broke down today. Meetings from 9.30 to 4, varying intensity. Hour for lunch spent in prep. I ate spaghetti (like, 200g or so) with a can of tinned octopus on top. I was fucking done after eating.

I know its a tangent off the main discussion here, but personally speaking people shouldnt eat octopus. They are incredibly intelligent.

There is already a wealth of research that suggests octopuses are one of the most complex and intelligent animals in the ocean. They can recognise individual human faces, solve problems (and remember the answers for months) and there is some evidence they experience pain and suffering. Numerous videos on the internet of octopuses escaping from their tanks or stealing fishermen's catches have fuelled a human fascination with the only invertebrate that the 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness considers sentient alongside mammals and birds.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/millions-of-people-eat-octopus-heres-why-we-probably-shouldnt/

g.man

They are damn tasty tho...

mistercrayon

I work on a computer all day and I find Teams meetings kind of unbearable. There’s something about the meeting context where you can’t just nod in agreement that makes the whole fucker a chore.

We had social ones set up to give people a chance to do the “office” thing but the texture of them is far more stressful. I think it may also be partly this whole you never really know if it’s broken How broken it is or something.

Armitage_Shankburn

Literally the one good thing that happened today. That pasta was incredibly tasty for 15 minutes cooking time.

cockbeard

LivDiv wrote:

I'm guessing you guys doing these all day zoom meetings arent used to staring at a screen all day either. I know it is tough with scheduled meetings but it's really important to take breaks. Us nerds that spend all day attached to computers normally have our built in routines.

Smoking helps with that

GooberTheHat

Armitage_Shankburn wrote:

I can't explain what it is, but these remote meetings are doing me in.

I went through a phase a few weeks ago where I probably had 4 to 5 hours of meetings a day, a few days a week. It was exhausting.

RedDave2

cosmicjellybean wrote:

Her current school are making her go in 3x a week for her year 10 class, of which ONE student is attending, so she has to teach online via zoom, run to the car and get to the school for her lesson with ONE student, whilst also teaching it over zoom for those who aren't coming in, then zoom back home to continue teaching over Zoom. Yeah. She had to wrestle me away from the phone a few times from those pricks.

That wonderful frustration when you want to punch the fuck out of the dicks your wife (or better half regardless) works with. My wife got out of a job which started well but became soul destroying because of a few pricks. Turns out to be have been an excellent choice as the new job is booming (accounts in pharma) and the other one is in serious trouble (car fleet management)

But its hard to fight the urge to not go in and scream at all the dumb mother fuckers

GurtTractor

Dark Soldier

Back to the office tomorrow. I volunteered, hating remote working so much and half my job in my new role I cannot do at home, so its for the best all round.

Looking forward to it.

g.man

Stay safe mate!

cockbeard

Good on you DS, seems we are getting towards that point where I realise I've done nothing of worth in this time off, then realise actually I was an unemployed arsehole long before lockdown, really want to fix that super soon

Dark Soldier

Yeah Ive been doing fuck all at home. Have a dual screen PC set up now so getting paid to browse youtube or twitch half my day which in course has seen my productivity lower.

Best to nip that in the bud before higher management starts noticing.

mistercrayon

The worst thing about a dual screen set up is it makes you realise how necessary it is if you go back down.

LivDiv

Oh god yes. I cant do it.
I dont even want one of them super wide screens, I like the bezels to help organise stuff.

GooberTheHat

I've gone from a dual 27' monitor, plus laptop monitor setup at work, to a 13' laptop working from home. It's not great.

Dark Soldier

At work im only single screen and at home I did everything on one screen so its all good.

FM or Twitch mainly on the other.

cockbeard

GooberTheHat wrote:

I've gone from a dual 27' monitor, plus laptop monitor setup at work, to a 13' laptop working from home. It's not great.

So much this, lack of real estate sucks mega balls

n0face

LivDiv wrote:

Oh god yes. I cant do it.
I dont even want one of them super wide screens, I like the bezels to help organise stuff.

I'd love a super wide and a portrait monitor. Low on my list of priorities though

LivDiv

Now I'm thinking a portrait monitor might be useful for After Effects timelines.

cockbeard

Portarist to the right of standard is always a win

GooberTheHat

Something like this (without all the crazy leds) would be my ideal home office setup.

poprock

I used to be a two-screen man. Laptop plus fixed monitor at work. I changed jobs and got a massive-screened iMac at the new place instead. Having so much space on a single screen made up for it, tbh.

Now I’m working from home, I’ve been using an iPad as a second screen when I feel I need it – but not full time. Too fiddly.

Howdy, Stranger!

Categories