I’d say moderate. I know there are informal clubs in the region I have never never been too. Estimates for poly people tend to be 4 to 5 percent. True swingers between 250,000 and a few million in North America.
SHIT. JUST. GOT. REAL.
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Working from home is just an absolute disaster. Combination of kids being off from school, worrying about the virus, and watching the markets crater is just taking up all of my mental energy.
Just cracked open my first beer.
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same here, i was tempted at lunch to start drinking but have held off so far
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I couldn’t send emails from my laptop all day, and could only access work files for about half the day.
I’m at work today, our network has been a fucking disaster and we don’t have more than a couple wfh people. Corona is attacking the intertubes god help us
I needed a good laugh. Thank you.
Agreed. Trying to keep my daughter on task while I stay on task has not been easy. SOmebody had to send me 4 emails to get an answer from me because I kept misreading the question - I just didn’t have the energy to read the email with any kind of detail.
Man people are morons. Get on a call with a couple hundred people today and OF COURSE a handful of dipshits can’t figure out how to mute their damn phones.
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At my company there is a super high correlation between “late to the call guy” and “can’t mute phone guy”. So our one hour calls go:
Start 5 minute late because of course
5 minutes of clarity in which the agenda is read off the screen
Cascade of late dip shits who join without their phone muted
Late dip shits don’t even care about the call and are banging away at their keyboards like Jerry Lee Lewis
“IF EVERYONE COULD JUST MUTE YOUR PHONES PLEASE” (no impact)
20 minutes into call “everyone just hang tight, we’re going to try to mute all lines”
Attempt to mute lines unmutes everything, cacophony of sound, feedback
Over 50 speaker calls IT support
Under 30 colleague jumps in to head off waiting for IT, clicks button on screen that says “mute all lines”. This has the effect of muting all lines as desired.
“Ok guys looks like we’re good. Big thanks to Jimmy for tech support har har. I make more than 4 times what Jimmy makes because I have grey hair, har har”
45 minutes into talk we are on slide 8 of 52 . Looks good!
At the 55 minute mark, “in the interest of time, here are 30 pages of content presented in 8 minutes . questions?”
Later that day email with slides, apologies, and guidance on how to mute phones
Next time? Rinse and repeat.
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Transcript for every conference call with more than 5 people ever conducted.
Want to say thanks for this. I needed a good laugh today. Was really feeling it. This made me belly laugh. Well done.
There’s always the flustered organizer who seems surprised the video conferencing set up isn’t working right. I’m like when has it ever worked right numbnuts? The shocker would be if we ever got this thing going in under 15 minutes. That would knock me out of my chair.
The rare times I have to lead a meeting I make it first thing and I’m in there 10 minutes ahead of time making sure shit actually works.
Why isn’t conference call software like Skype or teams default mute? Seems like obvious UI design.
Other one I like is
Ok guys Bob seems to be running a bit late. How about the other 25 of us sit here and diddle ourselves for 10 minutes waiting for Bob, who incidentally, is not important for this meeting nor plans to say a single word.
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Just genius.
I have to participate in a lot of conference calls for various large Army Corps of Engineers planning efforts that involve many federal and state agencies along with lots of representative from various stakeholders groups. Every single one goes that way. The people that annoy me the most are the ones who put the call on hold and their agency has music that starts playing.
Every once in a while upper management guy will just lose his shit. It really doesn’t get any better than that in a big company work environment.
Can happily say that I’ve never been involved in a conference call. Sounds like a nightmare.