For my multiple weekly meetings, we have the option of doing video or audio calls. You just won’t see it on Slack - that’s too personal for me. I wear silly shit around the crib to entertain myself, too. It’s funny and good for team morale, because everyone’s feeling different emotions right now. A supervisor, joking about how long it’s been since he’s shaved, posted a photo of himself in a caveman outfit he probably copped from a party story three Halloweens ago.
One guy sent a photo of himself wearing a robe and holding a coffee mug. A running gag in the #chit-chat channel is people showing off their morning outfits. It’s all about boundaries, and that extends to the ways I connect with my co-workers, too. And without a change of location after the close of the business day, it became easy to keep working well into the evening. I’ve had to keep my laptop out of the bedroom altogether - things got to the point where I’d wake up, roll over, shoot off some morning check-in emails, and then go right back to sleep for another 30 minutes. It took a few days to find a rhythm and flow for being productive, and figure out how to keep work and leisure separate within one space. If I haven’t responded to an email or Slack in an “appropriate” amount of time, is that being tracked? Will there be a passive-aggressive email sent to the whole team about responsiveness? I’ve been on top of things, but it just feels like the stakes are higher, and I can imagine myself starting to overcompensate. For one, my anxieties about expectations in this remote circumstance. The perks of working from home are cliché at this point: There’s zero commute time, casual Friday has been replaced by wearing sweats seven days a week if you want, and you can take a quick 20 minutes to exercise or de-stress with video games during workday lulls.īut there are some weird aspects, too. Fortunately, my team is able to work remotely - though that’s been an adjustment, to say the least. Of course one of the first major American cities hit hard by Covid-19 was Seattle, where I work and live, so things are pretty much shut down out here. Back in February, folks would hop into my org’s #chit-chat channel and trade memes about the coronavirus - not quite anticipating that it’d grow into a pandemic that has upended every aspect of life in countries around the world.
You know these 2020 chat rooms when you see them: They’re often dubbed something like #random or #funny, and are home to foolery like Cardi B tweets and discussions about the weirdos on Tiger King. Even the most buttoned-up corporate companies have a Slack channel where things can get a bit ratchet.
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