It's 2023 and we still have baby crying in the background in a Teams meeting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow OP is whining more the babies. Stop being a prick OP. Some people have kids. If not, go to the office if you’re that bothered. Geez what a loser.

People had kids before the pandemic too but somehow managed to have decorum while working.

I had friends who worked remotely pre-pandemic and had childcare in their house and their kids would regularly be audible on their work calls and people either didn't care at all, thought it was sweet, or didn't voice their anger about it.

What changed is remote work. People hear more of what is going on in your home when you work remotely. People I talk to on the phone know there's an elementary school across the street from me if they call during post-lunch recess. The school also has afternoon band practice, which you can regularly hear on the phone with me, and there is a fire station about a block away and that's audible too.

And yet no one is screaming about how DARE I work from home when there are things in my environment that make sometimes distracting noises on work calls. But a baby in the background freaks people out. Why is that?

[Anonymous]

Some of us work with a person who IS taking care of a baby/toddler film time while working from home. It'd frustrating. Half the time the toddler is in the frame of my one coworkers' call! She's already muted because otherwise the kid is talking or screaming.

[Anonymous]

I am more frustrated by the people who can't mute themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked remote for 15 years prior to covid, and we had to have childcare. It's insane that people just...thinking they can work and take care of an infant now.

Whoever sold women the lie that they can have it all, did a number on us. No, when you are "working" from home and watching your kids you are not having it all. You are typically failing at work and as a mom too.

[Anonymous]

My DH works from home full-time and I’m having a baby in March. There will be a baby crying while I’m out on leave because that’s where we live. Offices don’t want to deal with home stuff, create adequate office space for workers.

[Anonymous]

OP, maybe the baby crying is you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH works from home full-time and I’m having a baby in March. There will be a baby crying while I’m out on leave because that’s where we live. Offices don’t want to deal with home stuff, create adequate office space for workers.

Where? In your home? Most people have the option of working from the office but would rather work from home.

[Anonymous]

My takeaway from OP's post was not that a baby was crying, but that people STILL don't know how to mute themselves.

[Anonymous]

I actually love it. It reminds me that we have progressed past having to be in offices like drones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow OP is whining more the babies. Stop being a prick OP. Some people have kids. If not, go to the office if you’re that bothered. Geez what a loser.

People had kids before the pandemic too but somehow managed to have decorum while working.

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Pretend you didn't lose all your professionalism in 2020. We have been working for many many years without this being a issue. Figure your sh$t out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the baby is crying in the background with the nanny? Its 2023 and we are still judging others?

This. Babies cry. Dogs bark. Life can be noisy. Deal with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My takeaway from OP's post was not that a baby was crying, but that people STILL don't know how to mute themselves.

That's what I was thinking - you work from home but dont know how to navigate Zoom or Teams or whatever ? good grief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, maybe the baby crying is you.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow OP is whining more the babies. Stop being a prick OP. Some people have kids. If not, go to the office if you’re that bothered. Geez what a loser.

People had kids before the pandemic too but somehow managed to have decorum while working.

100%
Pretend you didn't lose all your professionalism in 2020. We have been working for many many years without this being a issue. Figure your sh$t out.

Yes, absolutely. Today's babies are incredibly unprofessional, it's ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Why let such small things bug you this much?