People who are always late to zoom meetings

[Anonymous]

I’m very annoyed by people who get on 5 min early- or even worse 15 min early!!

I’m usually working on something and the reminders that so and so started the meeting make me lose my train of thought. Just get there on time like the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

Np, I have a theory that some people show up to meetings late, particularly those in person, for attention. Being late gives the impression that you are busy and important. One lady in my office does this every week and she’s very much an attention-seeking narcissist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thats because she is never at her desk. She is doing laundry or working in the garden. If she was at her desk, she would get the notice.

It's far more likely I'll be late for a meeting when I'm in the office. No one bothers me at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thats because she is never at her desk. She is doing laundry or working in the garden. If she was at her desk, she would get the notice.

We are definitely zooming into meetings from the office. There are people in other locations who need to attend, plus conference rooms are hard to get.

[Anonymous]

Since RTO I am always late since my Zooms or Teams are back to back, and I have to pull my badge out of my computer to leave office area, badge into the restroom, badge back in, and then log back into my computer and wait for everything to load. Yes, I am in the office full time and on Zoom or Teams all day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't see 5 minutes as that bad. If she is busy, it might just be a matter of being in other meetings.

Can you ask her to start/end meetings at :05 and :55? Some companies just do this as a matter of building in breaks.

You can also ask her at the next meeting to open the Zoom. I've done this. It's a pesky setting.

This makes sense. Some in my company are doing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since RTO I am always late since my Zooms or Teams are back to back, and I have to pull my badge out of my computer to leave office area, badge into the restroom, badge back in, and then log back into my computer and wait for everything to load. Yes, I am in the office full time and on Zoom or Teams all day.

Can someone explain this? Badges that slot into laptops? Sounds ridiculous. My company just introduced biometrics which I love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since RTO I am always late since my Zooms or Teams are back to back, and I have to pull my badge out of my computer to leave office area, badge into the restroom, badge back in, and then log back into my computer and wait for everything to load. Yes, I am in the office full time and on Zoom or Teams all day.

Can someone explain this? Badges that slot into laptops? Sounds ridiculous. My company just introduced biometrics which I love.

We have a PIV or CAC card that goes into a laptop card reader that we use to log in to the virtual network. When we remove the badge, the network connection is broken. This is common across agencies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since RTO I am always late since my Zooms or Teams are back to back, and I have to pull my badge out of my computer to leave office area, badge into the restroom, badge back in, and then log back into my computer and wait for everything to load. Yes, I am in the office full time and on Zoom or Teams all day.

Can someone explain this? Badges that slot into laptops? Sounds ridiculous. My company just introduced biometrics which I love.

We have a PIV or CAC card that goes into a laptop card reader that we use to log in to the virtual network. When we remove the badge, the network connection is broken. This is common across agencies.

Thanks- and when you walk away you have to remove the card?
Why is it not enough to secure your workstation? And have laptops go to sleep after 5 minutes of inactivity... they can certainly set that up to disconnect from the network if they want. Private sector techie here in a very secure industry who is not getting this charade. Did some consultant come up with this idea? Who sources these cards/slots/tech? Follow the money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since RTO I am always late since my Zooms or Teams are back to back, and I have to pull my badge out of my computer to leave office area, badge into the restroom, badge back in, and then log back into my computer and wait for everything to load. Yes, I am in the office full time and on Zoom or Teams all day.

Badge into the restroom? I feared my company would start this, but luckily I retired without this becoming a thing.

Does the time spent in the restroom not count towards your charged time for the day? If you spend 10min in there, do you have to be at work 8 hours and 10 minutes?

What I'm surprised is my company didn't put a badge reader on the entrance/exit to the cafeteria. But then starting 10 years ago we could WFH or office, or take our notebooks out on the patio, or work from a common area. So I guess once we got away from desktops, they couldn't assume cafeteria time was break time.

I can only imagine some of the bathroom reports HR is probably running...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
We have a PIV or CAC card that goes into a laptop card reader that we use to log in to the virtual network. When we remove the badge, the network connection is broken. This is common across agencies.

We had to insert our badge in a slot in the notebook. The dilemma was detaching the badge from your lanyard, but then if you got up to use the restroom and forgot to remove it, you were leaving your notebook unattended and walking around without a badge (both really bad, bad things!).

Or leave the badge on the lanyard around your neck to avoid walking away and forgetting to take the badge, but then if you turn around too far to talk to someone, you accidentally yanked the badge out of the slot, potentially messing up your work in progress.

[Anonymous]

I'm not always late but for example, this upcoming Monday I have meetings from 8:30am-5pm without any time between at all. I'm only human so will have to pee at some point. I try to be respectful of others' time so I usually don't even eat those days. We have a company policy of cameras always on too so feel weird eating on camera anyway.

[Anonymous]

The maximum she was ever late was 5 minutes!!!! A lot of people think that’s being on time, just so you know. I have adjusted my expectations accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to RTO

I have this problem too - we are in different offices all around the country so RTO isn’t the issue.

At my agency we have to manually adjust the settings to list co-hosts and check the button to allow people straight into meetings with no waiting room. Maybe the person can adjust their settings?