I can’t believe how many virtual meetings in the last three years that people are still sharing their screens.
People seem to share their screens in 3 situations:
- Showing or explaining a document. Whether it be a slideshow or written document, people seem obsessed with idea that no one else knows how to read or that they write just as incompetently as they present.
- Explaining procedure. I get it, things can be complicated. Learn to screen record.
- Collaboration. Most conferencing apps have a whiteboard or other document creation apps have real time collaboration. You just don’t want to use these things because you want to be in 100% control of what’s being written down. You don’t want a meeting, go do your own things, if you feel obligated to turn it into a meeting you just want attention.
We all have a limited time on this earth. We’re not going to remember or care about the meetings in a year or two. Go find something meaningful to do with your life. Stop sharing your screen, and even better yet, don’t have the meeting at all. We’re not going to look back at the end of our lives and wish we’d had more meetings.
You’re just rationalising the fact that you are autistic and meetings give you anxiety.
People use meetings because some of us can articulate concepts through speech better than through written media. Meetings also ensure stuff gets decided now and not when the various people decide to reply to an email.
Screen sharing mostly gives you something to look at instead of people’s faces which in most apps is a bit uncanny due to the latency between voice and video. Showing a document on screen also helps people to keep track of what the presenter is looking at and allow them to look at other stuff on their screen without having to keep going back to the document to find their place.
Screen recording as a replacement for a meeting is just retarded, aside from timezone issues. Too asynchronous and cumbersome, plus it consumes storage, plus nobody would watch it.
All that said, yes, most people/schools/companies are not prepared to accommodate for those who have a different style of communication or just don’t want to be hopping from meeting to meeting, and that’s their fault. But it is what it is.
FTFY.
Turning what should have been an email into a meeting should be a fireable offense.