Most annoying Zoom habits

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From chewing food, speaking to a blank screen, and even hearing a toilet flush, Gulf News staffers tell of their most irritating Zoom experiences.  Read the full story: https://bit.ly/322tx2Y   See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #Zoom #videoconference #Dubai

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00:00The Zoom habit that other people do that annoys me the most is when they don't mute their

00:11microphone.

00:12I think the nonverbal cues.

00:14The sound of people chewing.

00:16People not turning on their cameras.

00:18Meetings drag on for far too long.

00:20Unmuted microphones.

00:21I can basically hear children in the background, plates being scraped together, and I one time

00:27even heard a toilet flush.

00:30You have those nonverbal cues from people like when to start and when to end a conversation

00:34and when exactly you're not supposed to speak and when you can speak.

00:38Why can't you just mute if you're eating something?

00:41I mean it's okay if you're eating something.

00:43Just mute yourself and make sure that you're not chewing while somebody else is talking

00:47or while you're talking.

00:48I've always wondered why I need to stare into a blank screen and speak to a whole lot of

00:55people who don't show their faces when it is a meeting.

00:58Either they want to hide themselves or they don't want to show what they are doing.

01:02But it's very strange and it's very annoying.

01:05As more and more people contribute and have something to say, these meetings tend to go

01:10on for very long.

01:11I've heard kids in the background just going crazy over whatever.

01:20If you have several of those going off at the same time, it's very hard to get to the

01:27meat of the meeting itself.

01:29So if you're not talking, please mute your microphone.

01:33People need to also realize that there are times when when the mic is on, you can't keep

01:39talking ill about somebody or talking behind the person's back because everything is being

01:46recorded and everyone's hearing what you say.

01:49I feel that certain standards of operating on these video conferencing meetings should

01:55be set up.

01:56Certainly, someone needs to be hosting it and setting strict time limits.

02:01You don't realize that a lot of time has gone by.

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