4. Left at the door on a video call
Translated from the French original.
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The other day, we were doing a hot debrief of a remote workshop.
Excited by the experience we had just been through, I unilaterally take the liberty of delaying the phone call I’m due to make next, to Christine.
At 12:20, Christine calls me on my mobile: “I’m waiting for you on Zoom”.
I then realise she has been waiting for me for several minutes on the video call. I immediately leave Teams and join Zoom!
Christine and I start talking.
No lateness is ever really acceptable.
However, waiting for a phone call that’s running late is usually far less painful than waiting for a video-conference room to open.
Waiting at the door of a video conference looks strangely like that real-life situation where you stand about in front of the locked door of a meeting room, waiting for the organiser to arrive with the key to let you in.
One difference, though: in real life you find your colleagues at the door, and you can chat and say all the terrible things you like about people who are never on time for meetings. A way of letting off a little steam.
On a video call… it’s a lot less fun.
If you’re organising a video conference,
open the door early enough that nobody is left standing about!!!
Ecole Internationale de Réuniologie
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