This sums up the past 12 or so months for me

My version is: someone's asked me a question, and I'm fumbling with two separate buttons to unmute my mic and trying to divine which order I should press them in to get it to work.

Haha. Nailed it!

Btw,...."Am I audible?"

LOL - we must have the same work IT. And as much as it annoys me I have never tried to find what combination works properly....I think it works Thursday afternoon best

You didn't make much progress with your Powerpoint presentation then

So it's not just me!

I'm surprised things work at all, with the echoes, wireless mics, inconsistent mute/volume controls for all the collaboration systems, timezone failures, blank screens etc : )

Glad there are still the good old telco lines/mobile handsets to fall back on for voice when everything else totally fails : )

Since I have to use a phone for audio and a PC for video .....

All those problems resonate, especially the mute confusion and button fumbling.

It requires at least 28 digits on the phone to access a Zoom meeting.

You know you have been in too many meetings when you have the entire login sequence memorized.

But you still only get in on the first try about 50% of the time, and have to re-enter the entire sequence again, sometimes multiple times....

And just when you get good at it, some group wants to use MS Teams or Google Hangout or some other method...

shabaz  wrote:

 

So it's not just me!

I'm surprised things work at all, with the echoes, wireless mics, inconsistent mute/volume controls for all the collaboration systems, timezone failures, blank screens etc : )

Glad there are still the good old telco lines/mobile handsets to fall back on for voice when everything else totally fails : )

For tech savvy professionals at work it is difficult.

That's why I have fear for all those non-tech-savvy people that had to appear before court via Zoom. Should it be a reason for re-trial if any glitch happened during a session. Has anyone checked that everybody could hear everybody at all times?

During the last 12 months I've also had plenty of webinar or online meeting requests which are hosted on various platforms. My biggest mistake was working on something else and logging in at the last moment only to find my chosen browser was incompatible, then frantically trying to paste the link into Edge or Firefox. No sneaking into the back row like you could at a physically attended conference: no, instead my name got nicely announced as 'just joining' for all to see.

I did however get very adept and ensuring the microphone was muted before joining the meeting and as required throughout when not presenting myself

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"...instead my name got nicely announced as 'just joining' for all to see..."

If that was all that was 'announced' on screen, then I think you were doing pretty well compared with some...

  I kind of know how you feel.