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This is quite funny.
After a tiresome meeting with the Great-Grand-Bosses, we are supposed to start our own internal team meetings. Me & my boss are part of the Great-Grand-Meeting. So we have to again schedule the meeting with our teams.
The first grand meeting has a fixed time. The second/other meeting moves based on when the 1st one ends.
After the 1st meeting. Me & my boss know we are drained. But my boss doesn't reveal it and asks me:
"Oh cool, We dial back at 11:00 am with the team"? (When the 1st (gruesome) meeting has happened between 8:00 am to 10:45 am.
I reply back saying "How about 11:15 am"?
Boss replies back "Okay, we'll keep it round - 12:00 pm"
Oh man he's very nice. He's quite older but still hard working. Our company is putting everybody into trouble. Our CEO is afraid that we would get into a slumber mode as everybody is working from home.
So he wants to ensure our minds are not tired with rest but with work.
But equating meetings to work , well we have spoken enough.
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Nothing like 6 hours of meeting everyday to boost productivity! 
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Is this the same in office too?
Can you not suggest more emphasis on non-meeting types of communication like emails, which also have a written record?
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It has to be a live call & that too, it has to be a VIDEO call. All employees should be appearing with the right attire.
And our internal calls should also happen the same way.
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Looks more like a factory-mindset, rather than a software company. (I had a boss who valued the time-in and time-out timings much more than what was actually done in the office).
Perhaps, they want to make working-from-home much tougher than working-from-office.
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Amarnath S wrote: Perhaps, they want to make working-from-home much tougher than working-from-office.
Prehaps?
That's exactly the strategy for some IT-Analphabets and prehistoric bosses...
doing home office a nightmare, people will be glad to come back to the office where they think they have more control.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Amarnath S wrote: Looks more like a factory-mindset, rather than a software company.
True. Since all are working from home. The CEO doesnt want to take chance. He wants all the work logs of all the people visible to him. And conference has to be only Video chats. & So many other rules in place.
Once the lockdown is over, we'll be back to the normal slacking routine. It should not be a problem.
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So, during the lockdown period, the CEO is keeping aside what he has to really do - which is strategy. Is getting busy with tactical things, like micromanagement, throughout the day.
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The CEO also happens to be the founder as well. If he's really that dumb, I'm not sure if he could have continued to feature in the top Millionnaire's list in country. I don't think he's dumb. He just wants to ensure people settle for a new routine properly than take it as Corona-holidays.
And the only meeting that he takes part in the morning detailed meeting. He's doing plenty to support the government. So we have good respect for him.
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Making the meeting during lunch time will keep you popular for sure. 
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Munch Munch, We(chomp chomp)ll, Yuuu(chomp chomp)ou, aree(chomp chomp) cooorr(chomp chomp)ect. Absolute(Sllluuurrrp)ly. Munch Munch.
We are used to this obfuscated protocol now.
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Huh. I've been working from home for the last two weeks, and had my first online meeting just today. The rest of the time it's been emails and IM's.
It was actually kind of nice to talk to the other folks and see how they were doing. The funny thing is, I think we're more productive when we're all working remotely.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Exactly. One common thing I've observed is, when people are matured and the project type is suitable for remote ops, Remote working is for sure more productive.
But some times we work with huge machines, and we need the laboratory set up. It gets almost impossible to do remote work.
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Nand32 wrote: some times we work with huge machines
Unfortunately true for most of the folks where I work. We build commercial inkjet printing systems. It's kind of tough to fit a 60-foot long printing press in your home office.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Some of Bugs Bunny is either no longer shown or bowdlerized because it's politically incorrect. Sic transit...
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It's getting worse with films, TV series etc. The recent War of the Worlds on BBC was an appalling travesty of PC/Wokje nonsense, and paid only mild lip service to Wells' original. Especially galling for me as I live 5 minutes from the spot where the Martians landed.
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today's shows are all about cgi/visual effects (and perhaps some second+ rate one-day-wonder singer)
couple of decades back it was all about sound (dolby/thx blah blah rah rah blow you out of your seat)
was a couple of decades before that when all they had to rely on was the story
...about then was also a mostly fresh generation of actors so if the story didn't sell the movie flopped.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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And you could actually hear what the actors were saying. I blame Marlon Brando, who introduced the art of mumbling.
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It highlights the difference between people do it because they're artistic and those who are political or capitalistic.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That reminds me... I'm going to listen to this one[^] for the coming 1:45 hours 
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Thanks for the link, it's years since I first heard it on the radio. 
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what I don't get is the animation back then is still so much better - more fluid, smoother -apart from background less looping, more 'natural' movement - than today's computer assisted anime crap.
another thing I like in the old cartoons is they used real well trained musicians (orchestral instruments) for the background music. they really were super skilled and so well timed. (they recorded against a showing often all in 1 shot start-to-end after just a couple of practice rounds.)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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This, from 1937, is just beyond amazing[^].
Now - that damn anime, enema, whatever they call it - no real animation at all - just flashing lights and Japanese fantasy girls (i.e., young school-girl innuendo). And, of course, don't forget the other flavor now available - 30 minute commercials to sell their toy-turned-cartoon.
As a little kid I watched the (then old) cartoons, in B&W, of the endless cats and mice fighting. And who can forget (or resist?) Betty Boop? !
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