• other_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    8 months ago

    So glad that my team is largely composed of busy tech folk because going “Sorry I was multitasking” is a valid response haha.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
      39·
      8 months ago

      Unless you’ve got some guy who knows multitasking is a bunch of bullshit and you just weren’t paying attention and is enough of a dick to say it

        • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          8 months ago

          Calling people out for lying about spacing out during boring and mostly meaningless meetings is kinda a dickish move. Worker solidarity and all.

          It makes sense to do it if you’re management, I guess, but even then… Help each other out. Middle management has more in common with the lower level workers than they do with upper management.

      • debil@lemmy.world
        10·
        8 months ago

        Multitasking (or multipasking as it is known to Finnish speaking people) is not bullshit, but trying to focus on several things at once and fucking up each one of them.

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
      1·
      8 months ago

      This one is my pet peeve. Please just trust the technology, people will let you know if your screen is not visible.

      • meliaesc@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        I frequently join meetings where someone is going on a whole explanation and 10 minutes later someone asks if he is sharing anything. So he starts over.

        • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
          1·
          7 months ago

          It’s beneficial to declare that you’re going to share your screen, but without waiting for someone to confirm that your screen is visible, as it’s more or less frictionless to declare it but high friction to wait for confirmation.

  • MacedWindow@lemmy.world
    31·
    8 months ago

    I read it as a wild and free traveling cowboy, tricked by a sneaky man dressed as a rabbit. The rabbit-man invites him to a zoom call which in this world is inescable, bringing him to his fate as the boring businessman man in the last panel.

  • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
    11·
    8 months ago

    Guys, I’m embarrassed but I got to ask: can someone explain how it should be understood?

    No, I’m not making fun of it. I legitimately don’t understand it and I would like to.

    From the other comments I get it’s something about video calls at home and maybe people yelling while on them? I’m confused because the guy walking on the horse is also relevant (perhaps in minding his business and being disturbed by others yelling)?

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
      30·
      8 months ago

      man was dissociating during a work zoom call while thinking about dissociating and whether it was “dissociating” or “dissasociating”. he was pulled from his daydream by the person in the call asking him if Thursday was good. then they’re all waiting for his answer and he doesn’t even know what was asked.

      • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Ooooh, now it makes sense! Thanks!!! I’ve been that guy several times, getting lost in my thoughts, so I see why everyone could relate to this strip!

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    Reading the differences, I’m not sure I’ve experienced either. I don’t even have a disconnect in thoughts and behavior when immersed in VR or when I attempt to meditate and reach that state intentionally. I’ve never been able to not think about something I don’t want to. I just want to feel like I’m not in my body and forget a bunch of awful stuff… 😔

    • theangryseal@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 months ago

      I’ll tell you something that has worked for me, and it’s the only thing that works.

      Music.

      Learn enough to improvise and just dive into it. Today I fastforwarded through three straight hours banging drumsticks on plastic buckets at work. I can make whole days disappear just playing my guitar. I disappear completely and just get lost in the sound. It puts me in a trance and I forget I was ever a person.

      It might not work for you, but wouldn’t it be rad if it did?

      And don’t think it’s too late to learn. My ex sat down at a piano bench at 26 and said, “I want to learn this.” So she did. About a year later she said, “I’d like to learn to play your guitar.” She learned to play it and that’s what she did every evening for years.

      Nothing takes me out of this world like playing music.

      • Gloomy@mander.xyz
        3·
        8 months ago

        Drugs might be a way to give you that, but to my limited knowledge it is not a good idea to use drugs while in a bad mindset.

    • ickplant@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      Everyone dissociates to a degree. I can guarantee you are doing it at least a little bit. It doesn’t always look or feel like being out of your body. It can be as simple as avoiding feeling feelings by doing things or by being too cognitive.

    • kronisk @lemmy.world
      9·
      8 months ago

      Or sometimes it’s wise to filter out when some of your colleagues are filling out meeting time with nonsense. You only get brain fatigue and get nothing for it.

        • kronisk @lemmy.world
          5·
          8 months ago

          Oh, everyone but themselves. Some people have next to no self-awareness, you see. And if you have no clue what I’m talking about, chances are you’re one of them.

          • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
            1·
            8 months ago

            I know what you’re talking about. But if you’re the only one in the room not paying attention, maybe you’re the problem?

              • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
                1·
                8 months ago

                It was more of a rhetorical question, as I have no idea what your situation is. Also, you have no idea what my situation is.

                • kronisk @lemmy.world
                  2·
                  8 months ago

                  Of course, which is kind of my point here. But your rhetorical question only works if the situation is very specific, which is weird given that - as you point out - you have no insight into my situation at work. To summarize, you have no case.

    • nifty@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      Sorry people are piling on you! Tbh, I think your comment is more or less innocuous. I think it never helps to dig into it when people downvote lol

      I really don’t think you deserved a lot of the harsher type comments, just my two cents

      • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
        5·
        8 months ago

        I appreciate your comment. I wasn’t trying to be all “you should work, kids these days!” Or anything like that. Obviously I could have just ignored them, but sometimes we gotta die on the hill.

        I think a lot of people don’t have a good working environment, and this hit home for them.

        I get that people space out. Everyone does it at some point. My takeaway from all this is that I’m really glad I work with a group of people who respect each other and really want to help their fellow coworkers do the job they’ve been paid to do, so we all can pay rent.

  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
    4·
    8 months ago

    The two prefixes (dis and as) mean the opposite, so when you choose one you need to remove the other