#Teleconference

[blondebrainpowered]

The Jetsons, 1962 -1963

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[amycvdh]

off to work (teleconference time)

PENGUIN PICTURES INC

[trinethramnews]

Investment Assistance for Farmers : రైతులకు పెట్టుబడి సాయం

[jepergola]

New story today: "Going Back to a Ghost Office"

[taunyastubler1954blog]

[empathtrumpsnarcissist]

To wave or not to wave? Article suggest you should be waving after your teleconferences. Does it really make a difference?

Do you wave at the end of your video calls? I honestly couldn’t tell you if I wave or not. All things like this are usually as anything is, mood dependent, situation dependent, etc. If I’m in a chipper mood and feeling comfortable and close to the people I am speaking with, I feel I likely do wave. But I don’t believe I’ve ever felt like it was called for in any of the professional…

[7fff00]

having a very 'wow the continued persistence of this concerning and distractingly uncomfortable symptom sure makes me wish i ""had health insurance"" or ""lived in a country with socialized medicine""' time of it lately :/

[phae-touched]

I mean, he has a point.

Why *would* you want to be on a call with 1000 people?

[juanmillerr]

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[michaelgabrill]

NASA to Participate in Next Private Astronaut Mission Teleconference

NASA will join a media teleconference hosted by Axiom Space at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 20, to discuss the launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Briefing participants include: To join the call, media must register with Axiom Space by 12 p.m., Monday, May 19, […] from NASA https://ift.tt/DuAGKF2

[trinethramnews]

Pawan : ప్రజలను ��బ్బందిపెడితే కూటమినేతలనూ ఉపేక్షించను

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

When Wifey talks about her union organizing work, she talks about prospective contacts on a 1-5 scoring system. On the one end you have Conservative David who is considered a long term cultivation possibility, but someone who must be approached strategically and adaptively. And on the other end you have Leftist Jane who is not only already jazzed about the union, but seems like possible future leadership material because she has a great rapport with her department and solid social skills. How someone falls on the spectrum tells you how to approach, how much time/resources to invest in someone, and what expectations might be reasonable to have of your contact.

I think that it can be hard to let go of the instinct that we don't want to coddle people when they say stuff we know to be anti-labor. Especially when it's rare for more broad spectrum social skill building to focus on conflict resolution (as opposed to conflict avoidance). But conflict resolution isn't just for fights! It's for any time that you and another person are on different sides of an issue and need to reconcile yourselves somehow. Community organizing involves a lot of that, as well as rapport building, learning to hold the people around you in unconditional regard in ways they receive without sliding into their ideological camp, and how to de-escalate a situation where someone is becoming agitated.

And if you feel anxious about those things, don't be! It feels scary and threatening because you weren't taught how to do it. But if you join a program like a union where they WILL, once you start to get the hang of it, that sense of mastery translates into less anxiety doing the thing! It's always easier to do something you have a lot of tips and tricks to manage weirdness for right? Same thing here.

So honesly? If you're someone who wants to get into organizing and doesn't know how, maybe just start by reaching out to local unions, social coaches, peer group facilitators, etc and see if any of them would teach a class if you got a group together! Learn as a community how to talk to each other and share space in ways that make it feel easier, not harder, to do the work that needs doing.

Activism is not cold-calling.

Activism is not cold-calling, and this is critically important to understand.

I'm seeing a lot of posts on here about 'building bridges' and 'finding community,' and then (extremely valid) response posts saying "BUT HOW??" And I'm going to explain something that can be very counter-intuitive: there is strategy involved in community.

As a longtime volunteer labour organizer, I’ve taken and taught many trainings on the strategy of talking. Something that surprises a lot of people is the very first thing you do in a union campaign. You sit down with your organizing committee, take out pen and paper, and literally map it out. You draw a physical map of the workplace: where are the entrances, exits, break rooms, supervisor offices. Essentially, ‘where is it safe to have a union conversation.’ Then you draw another physical chart of your coworkers. You sort out who is union-friendly, openly hostile to unions, or somewhere in the middle, and then you plan out very deliberately and carefully who talks to whom and in what order.

Consider: If Vocally Leftist Jane walks up to Conservative David and says "hey what do you think about unions," David is going to shut down immediately. He's not inclined to listen to Jane. But if Jane talks to Moderate Jason and brings him into the fold, then Jason is a far more effective strategic choice to talk to David, and David may actually hear him out without an instant reaction.

IMPORTANT CAVEAT: If Conservative David turns out to be Alt-Right David, and could be dangerous to follow organizers, we write him off. We are not trying to reach Alt-Right David. We are trying to reach Conservative David, who may actually be persuaded to find solidarity with other employees as fellow workers. Jason is a safe scout to find out which one he is. It does no one any good if Leftist Jane (or even Moderate Jane who is a visible minority) talks to Alt-Right David and puts herself on his radar. Not only has she done nothing to convince Alt-Right David to join a union - she's probably actively turned him against the idea - but now she's also in danger and the entire campaign is at risk. NOBODY WANTS THIS. Jane was NOT a hero for doing this. The organizing committee was foolish and enacted a terrible strategy to everyone's detriment.

Where you can make a difference is with people who will listen to you. You having a conversation with your well-meaning but clueless Centrist Democrat Auntie, and maybe gently helping her understand some things the media has been glossing over, is way more strategically useful than you marching up to MAGA Neighbour You've Met Once and trying to "build community" or "understand" them. They don't care. They're impervious, dangerous, and cruel. But maybe your beloved auntie will think about what you said, and then talk to her friend Anna who IDs as "fiscally conservative" but didn't vote because she can't bring herself to get on board with Trump. Then perhaps Anna talks to her brother Nic who has MAGA leanings but isn't all the way there yet. Proto-MAGA Nic would not have listened to you, nor would he have listened to Centrist Democrat Auntie, but he might absorb some of what his sister is saying.

This is not a cop-out or an echo chamber. This is you spending your time and energy strategically and safely. You are not a useful activist to anyone if you’re dead. Anyone who is telling you to hurl yourself directly at MAGA assholes like cannon fodder has no understanding of the strategy behind community building, and you should feel comfortable writing them off.

Last point: If you are tired, emotionally devastated, and/or in danger: take a break. This post is for people who would feel better jumping into action, not for people who are too overwhelmed to even think about it right now. You are worth so much even if you’re not actively Doing Activism, and your rest is worth more than “a break period so you can recharge and Do More Activism.” We all deserve the individual dignity of being worthy of comfort, rest & safety just on the basis of being human, outside of whatever we're doing for others' benefit. To deny ourselves that dignity is to devalue ourselves, and that’s the absolute last thing any of us should be doing right now.

[neverendingford]

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[nothing-impt]

Hey what’s our current list of nicknames for Telekinesis- I mean Telemachus???

Thanks to everyone, Dionysus (aka Dementia cause bro never remembers any of the names) currently has:

Tetanus, Telemarketing, Teleconference, Telenova, Tinnitus, Telekinesis, Teleportation, Telenzepine, Topoisomerase, Teleologies, Telephone, Telephonic, Tylenol, Tetris, Testicle, Tentacle, Tabasco sauce, Tennisball, Tartar sauce, Toaster, Telophase, Testosterone, Teletubbies, Tellurium, Tupperware, Telemedicine and Terrarium!

Some honorable mentions for Antinous:

Antibiotics, Antihistamine, Antihero, Arthritis, Antivirus, Antiallergies, Antidepressants, Antiseptic, Antilope and Androgen! Edit: Y'all are really adding some good ones, maybe we can make a masterlist in the future lol

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Etiquette proposal

If you invite someone from another timezone to a teleconference, the onus is on you to present all times in their local timezone, rather than your own - that is, the person asking should bear the labor of timezone conversions, not the person being asked.