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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.

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

I've done about exactly this. Probably bail later this afternoon.

"Sorry team, gotta split early. Something personal came up I have to deal with."

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 22 points 1 week ago

Ive wanted to do this so badly often.

[-] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

If you work remote, just don't. That's what I don't. Works great.

[-] ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago
[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 1 week ago

nope. weathers not that good where I am at.

[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm incredibly grateful that I can honestly tell my team "hey, it's beautiful out. I'm going to walk the dog and make up time later." I still get sad that I have to spend most of a beautiful day stuck at a desk, but I feel relatively lucky to have the time I do.

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Oh it's a done deal

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago

I mean, it's nice. When it works and isn't an obligation.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Any form of communication that can't take place while taking a dump is a terrible form of communication in my book.

[-] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

... . -. -.. --


.-. . - .--.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago
[-] moog@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

His hair was in uNACCEPTABLE CONDITION

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

A lemon gives by taking...and cares by yelling!

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago

this call is UNACCEPTABLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

and thus the origin story

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

The call of the wild

[-] nulluser@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

The knocked over chair punches hard. ๐Ÿ‘

[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The plot to Fritz The Cat

Ever since I got let go, I've been taking my bike out for long trips every sunny day. It has been amazing.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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