It’s probably easier said as a presumably middle aged and kid to late career person. I know that the younger members of my team crave the interaction of our Zoom team meetings.
I see this too. Parenting during a pandemic is exhausting. On my team, all the people without kids want to do zoom happy hours, etc. All the people with kids have ZERO energy for this type of thing.
This is one of those things where the people who want to do it should do it but no one should feel guilty for opting out. Different needs and expectations.
Agreed - I was very active in my religious affiliated life and the pandemic squashed it completely - the experience of church/temple cannot be replicated via zoom. I also have no desire for large group zooms for social reasons because only one person can talk at a time and you step all over each other - we did one for my mom's birthday and her damn sister was monopolizing the entire thing - she really just wanted to hear from her grand kids, kids, grand nieces & nephews. It was so painful to sit through. I have been doing 3-way phone calls because it feels much more organic.
This is happening for kids' activities as well. I guess everyone wants to keep their business going no matter what. But sports lessons and after-school classes for kids on Zoom? And after the kids have been on Zoom for school all day! Please give it a rest. We can only handle so much of this. We promise we'll come back to you when we can do things in person again.
Could not agree w this more. also I don't have kids and I cannot stand all of the forced Zoom socialization with coworkers (and I like my coworkers!) so maybe it's an age thing, not a parent va non parent thing. i wish offices would just accept this is a weird time and stop trying to force things that don't work virtually.
I am ok with it if it's a group of up to 6 playing a game like Jackbox. But just talking, is very personality dependent. If one person dominates it you're all screwed, and Everyone knows who that person will be. And then you have to sit there nodding and smiling when you've already heard her stories a million times. And her kids are also on and it's 9pm. What? No I don't know this person of course. Lol
I haven’t done an organized zoom event since late spring, pretty much done with it since then. One friend asked over the summer and I said let’s do outdoor dining and scrap the zoom stuff so that’s what we’ve been doing. Dcs school has had a handful of fun zoom events such as a magic show and games but these are one offs. I’m not signing up for activities. The 7-8 zooms ds has on his home days (we are hybrid) are plenty.
It’s probably easier said as a presumably middle aged and kid to late career person. I know that the younger members of my team crave the interaction of our Zoom team meetings.
I see this too. Parenting during a pandemic is exhausting. On my team, all the people without kids want to do zoom happy hours, etc. All the people with kids have ZERO energy for this type of thing.
This is one of those things where the people who want to do it should do it but no one should feel guilty for opting out. Different needs and expectations.
I think Zoom lunches are even worse. No I don't want to see you eating on my computer screen!
This is the perfect answer and response.
Agreed - I was very active in my religious affiliated life and the pandemic squashed it completely - the experience of church/temple cannot be replicated via zoom. I also have no desire for large group zooms for social reasons because only one person can talk at a time and you step all over each other - we did one for my mom's birthday and her damn sister was monopolizing the entire thing - she really just wanted to hear from her grand kids, kids, grand nieces & nephews. It was so painful to sit through. I have been doing 3-way phone calls because it feels much more organic.
This is happening for kids' activities as well. I guess everyone wants to keep their business going no matter what. But sports lessons and after-school classes for kids on Zoom? And after the kids have been on Zoom for school all day! Please give it a rest. We can only handle so much of this. We promise we'll come back to you when we can do things in person again.
Kids are exhausted from zoom. Mine want nothing to do with it after classes are done.
Could not agree w this more. also I don't have kids and I cannot stand all of the forced Zoom socialization with coworkers (and I like my coworkers!) so maybe it's an age thing, not a parent va non parent thing. i wish offices would just accept this is a weird time and stop trying to force things that don't work virtually.
I am ok with it if it's a group of up to 6 playing a game like Jackbox. But just talking, is very personality dependent. If one person dominates it you're all screwed, and Everyone knows who that person will be. And then you have to sit there nodding and smiling when you've already heard her stories a million times. And her kids are also on and it's 9pm. What? No I don't know this person of course. Lol
Lol- we all know this person ;) guess there's one in every group!
If there's more than one they inevitably are shouting over each other.
I haven’t done an organized zoom event since late spring, pretty much done with it since then. One friend asked over the summer and I said let’s do outdoor dining and scrap the zoom stuff so that’s what we’ve been doing. Dcs school has had a handful of fun zoom events such as a magic show and games but these are one offs. I’m not signing up for activities. The 7-8 zooms ds has on his home days (we are hybrid) are plenty.