Description: Panel 1: A man sits inside a house at a table or desk, looking at his laptop screen while participating in a video conference call with 9 or more participants. There is a window in the background with the sun in the sky. The man holds up his hand and tells the other participants on the call, "Excuse me everyone, sorry to interrupt . . ." Panel 2: The man looks away from the laptop screen towards the open window and the sky outside. He tells the video conference participants "I have the sunshine on the other line." Panel 3: The man leaves his seat, apparently abruptly, as the chair is knocked over, while the screen is still on and shows the video call participants. The man walks towards an open door, where a backpack sits at the doorway. He looks outside as he says over his shoulder "I have to take this call." Panel 4: The man is wordlessly walking over a hill, with grasses and bushes in the foreground and trees in the background, wearing the backpack, following the sun and not looking back.
Comic by Jeremyville.
When I was a kid I thought video phones of the future were gonna be awesome. Now, I think video calls are the shittiest part of telecom.
I mean, it's nice. When it works and isn't an obligation.
Because as always, companies turn that into shit.
It is a wonderful tool for remote work.
But now people hate it because they are forced in more pointless meetings. And RTO makes it worse because you have to go to an half empty building to videocall all day.
Any form of communication that can't take place while taking a dump is a terrible form of communication in my book.
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It's not that it can't. We just have social norms that tell us that is gross. You wouldn't speak punchmonkey on the toilet, either.