Visceral zoom meeting hate

[Anonymous]

I wah and have for a long time. We work very independently with no need for interaction. Because work is slow on one project, the entire team has meetings three times a week to review various scenarios and guidelines. It's 30+ people talking about the most incredibly boring, useless content for 30 mins. We sometimes get called on, sometimes people just speak over each other. I HATE it. It actually makes me want to quit my job and depresses me and makes me have anxiety. It feels like ridiculous busy work we would be better off not doing. Do you feel that way about anything minor and similar? I don't know why it bothers me so much, it's just 1.5 hour a week, but it ruins my job and peace for me.

[Anonymous]

Three times a week with 30+ people? That’s ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Three times a week with 30+ people? That’s ridiculous.

Yes, and across time zones as well. So for me the time is not a huge inconvenience, but it is to some. We normally all work independently on the same thing with zero need for contact.

[Anonymous]

dude i spend 6h a day on zoom meetings. sometimes more. 3x 30m a week! suck. it. up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:dude i spend 6h a day on zoom meetings. sometimes more. 3x 30m a week! suck. it. up.

Is it useful though? This is useless. We would be better off NOT having the meeting in terms of productivity and results.

[Anonymous]

I don't mind Zoom meetings if It is people I know well. I absolutely hate group meetings if I only loosely know the participants. Mainly I hate the larger groups because you can see people just mentally checked out/zoning and it is like a collective vibe of not wanting to be there.

[Anonymous]

I would speak up to the whoever decided this was useful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't mind Zoom meetings if It is people I know well. I absolutely hate group meetings if I only loosely know the participants. Mainly I hate the larger groups because you can see people just mentally checked out/zoning and it is like a collective vibe of not wanting to be there.

There are a couple people I know from my other project, one person I chat with and am friendly with, but we are all 100% remote. The vibe is serious and off, like we're taking this meeting SO seriously when it's a pointless exercise.

[Anonymous]

Does your company track BS "productivity" metrics or something?

I can imagine maybe the person calling these Zoom meetings does it to make it seem like the team is busy.

Any reason that the company doesn't let many of you go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does your company track BS "productivity" metrics or something?

I can imagine maybe the person calling these Zoom meetings does it to make it seem like the team is busy.

Any reason that the company doesn't let many of you go?

We all work on other projects and those are very busy. There would be enough work for us to drop this project and shift to others entirely. Why is that not happening? No idea!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:dude i spend 6h a day on zoom meetings. sometimes more. 3x 30m a week! suck. it. up.

Is it useful though? This is useless. We would be better off NOT having the meeting in terms of productivity and results.

some are useful and some are less useful but a. if that's the only time you are connecting then it's useful otherwise you have no team cohesion and b. just seems insane to die on a hill about having 1.5h of meetings a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:dude i spend 6h a day on zoom meetings. sometimes more. 3x 30m a week! suck. it. up.

Is it useful though? This is useless. We would be better off NOT having the meeting in terms of productivity and results.

some are useful and some are less useful but a. if that's the only time you are connecting then it's useful otherwise you have no team cohesion and b. just seems insane to die on a hill about having 1.5h of meetings a week.

This. Seriously find a hack. Join, contribute something positive in the first 4 min and smile, then multitask the rest of the meeting, then say something funny or positive at the end or agree with someone. Life isn’t that hard OP.

[Anonymous]

Having to sit through boring meetings while pretending to be interested in order to keep one’s job is a basic skill of adulting. Suck it up Buttercup!

[Anonymous]

With 30+ people can you go off camera and do other work? I wouldn't mind that.