The other one I love is when I am on a call with my headset on. Someone comes up and starts yapping at me, while I am talking into the headset. They then give me a look like me being on a call is inconveniencing them.
Best response: mute your call then say overly loud so that at least 5 other people hear you, “I CAN’T HEAR YOU I’M ON A CALL RIGHT NOW.” For extra measure you can also give them the look of them being an idiot for not seeing the headphones.
Thanks! Yeah. @jpinard is right, summary, that this thing is probably going to require another visit, but for now, it’s okay.
Everyone on my team knows that 95% of the time I will not multi-task during any meeting. I will not read e-mails, and I will not chat with them unless it’s actually a topic that’s in the meeting. It irks me beyond reason to hear someone say sorry I was multi-tasking, in a meeting, which is usually followed by us wasting time describing everything we just went over… again. I really do want to scream at them, no you were not multi-tasking because if you could actually do that, we would not be having this conversation right now… so what do a few of them still do… send me emails and ask me about them via Skype while I am in the same meeting they are in, the meeting they’re not paying attention to, clearly.
I’ve told everyone before, if you want stuff done faster, stop sticking me in meeting I don’t need to be in, and if you don’t know if I should be in one… there is this thing called an agenda, which no one uses, that I could use to make that determination myself if I ever got them.
To be honest, I do this a lot. About 90% of my meetings are project status meetings. I don’t need to know, or can add value to a lengthy discussion about the challenges getting a server commissioned. So, I zone out until my action items come up for review. Every now and then, though — maybe 1 out of 20 times, someone will ask me to help with something outside of when I am expecting to need to pay attention.
It’s common. I know it is. If anything, I am the odd lady out in this.
It really was interesting though going for about 4 weeks of minimal e-mail and chatting due to the limited ability to do both though. I still managed to do a lot, literally working slower, but being able to just focus. If I had the power, I’d tell everyone we need to change our meetings. They’re eating up too much time… so is trying to respond to e-mails in minutes instead of the next logical time to look.
He said something in the discord channel yesterday I think
Wait… qt3 has a discord server?
And a Slack. Discord isn’t very active. I don’t know if I can share a link or whatever (do you need admin rights or anything)? I think @Clay handles the Slack?
Mythical and beastly.
Do people still flood the Qt3 Discord with non-stop porn?
…because if they’re not, you just don’t see the point in coming by?
Well, I don’t want to be the only guy showing off his vast collection of babes.
Wait, wait. Hold on. I’m asking you all to take a breather. Stand down. Take it easy. Just relax for a minute. No need to escalate, lets handle this like adults. Chill out. Calm down, everybody. Take a seat and count to 10. OK, blowing the whistle, time-out. No need to go crazy. Just take a moment to think about what you’re doing and decide if it’s the right away to go. Stay back and chill. OK, we’re all good now.
…there’s porn?
I don’t know, I was just trying to fit in.
I guess we’re all just Normal People here, right?
You mispelled pron.
Hey, as a statistically average father, I’m also a normal people producer!
(Evidence: this joke.)
You misspelled pr0n.