Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by Regorium

I've found the vast majority of people just cameras off and either work on something else or not work at all. Then you go "oh X person you're on mute" X person after 30 seconds: "oh yeah sorry I missed that, could you repeat the question?"

Everyone knows that X was just not listening at all but it's become part of the etiquette to just acknowledge that it's the reality and keep the meeting going rather than call out the person.

The funniest example was a co-worker who was called out for not paying attention and his answer was "sorry, I was on mute"

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

It just takes people putting in the same effort they put in in-person online. I understand it not feeling natural or whatever, especially if you’re older or have been doing it one way for a long time, but it really isn’t any different when you put the effort in to the point where eventually it feels just as effortless and natural.

In my experience, I would say people 45-50+ struggle the most. You pretty much have to reach out to them because they won’t reach out to you, but they place a lot of importance on it, so they take a bit of extra management. Younger than that it mostly depends on the person, but in either case, you can accomplish the same.

That's my age range and I find that I'm really struggling to help the guys working with me get better. These people are extreme introverts and for most of them English is their second language. So I'm really struggling to find the right way to communicate with the different people. After 15 minutes of instructions and trying to communicate what I need. They type "got it." 30 minutes later when I see what they did, it's not correct and I need to start over.

So yes I get that I obviously suck at my job in this role and that's 200% my fault.. But I used to pick up a lot of cues in people's body language or found they would engage a bit more if I dealt with them in person. But I'm getting a bit frustrated trying to do my current job entirely remotely because the results to date are unsatisfactory to me. So I'm not too happy with being someone who sucks at my job, and I'm struggling to find a way to get through to people so I don't. At my previous job where I knew everyone personally and they were all very experienced. Things definitely were smoother.

[schteve_d]

C'mon guys....Start a thread. I keep clicking on this thread thinking it might have anything to do with Canadian federal politics. And I've been wrong for days! Start a new thread.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by schteve_d

C'mon guys....Start a thread. I keep clicking on this thread thinking it might have anything to do with Canadian federal politics. And I've been wrong for days! Start a new thread.

I’m sure everyone noted your post yesterday. The convo will naturally die off or be taken over when there’s something else people want to discuss.

Not everything needs a thread.

[wireframe]

I work for a big company that constantly studies internal productivity. The consensus from DS teams is that remote work is more productive for senior and above who have been on at the company for 4+ months. It seems to work well when we are senior enough to manage 100% of a project alone but gets tricky for junior members who need more support. The currency policy is that new hires have to come to an office for the first 6 weeks and senior people can request remote from there.