“I always do this when I want people here to leave me alone, lol. It gives me a good two hours to myself when I need it,†said a comment on YouTube. fizkes via Getty Images
Some people say they use recordings of random Zoom meetings they found on YouTube to appear busy.
Some said they played the videos with the sound on to avoid work and small talk.
“This meeting did more for me than any other meeting at work,†says a YouTube comment.
This is a machine translation of an article from our US colleagues at Business Insider. It was automatically translated and checked by a real editor.
Some people who want to avoid work and avoid small talk resort to an unusual device: They pretend to be in a meeting by playing Zoom recordings they found on YouTube.
In 2020 and 2021, organizations like the software company GitLab and the City of Santa Fe Uploaded videos of their Zoom meetings to YouTube. Although the videos were probably intended for recording purposes, some people have found that playing the videos on their own computer is a great way to look busy.
“I always do this when I want people here to leave me alone. It gives me a good two hours to myself when I need it,” one person commented Zoom shot from GitLab.
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“This meeting was more useful to me than any other meeting at work.â€
The video, uploaded in June 2021, had been viewed over 290,000 times as of press time. It also received over 200 comments, some of which welcomed the video’s existence. GitLab’s channel has over 11,000 videos and more than 28,000 subscribers.
“This meeting was more useful to me than any other meeting at work that could have been an email,” read another comment. Others found it amusing that there is a young community of viewers. “I can’t believe I found my people! I thought I was the only one. I can’t stop laughing,” another person commented.
Based on YouTube comments seen by Business Insider, the trend appears to have been circulating since 2020. “This really came in handy during the peak of Covid,” one person commented on the City of Santa Fe video. “This really helped people leave me alone in my home office between meetings.â€
The city of Santa Fe first posted the video online in April 2020. Since then, the video has been viewed more than 167,000 times. The Channel has over 1700 videos and over 2300 subscribers.
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Students also use the recordings to deceive their parents
It’s not just about work. Students also use Zoom recordings of online courses to escape their parents. “Sometimes I turn on the video and pretend I’m in class so my parents can’t disturb me for hours,” says Patrick Eagan, a history professor at Thomas More College. to a History course.
Some even offered tips on how to make the deception even more convincing. “Every now and then I stop at a good point between conversations to hear my voice contributing to the “meeting.†. That has the full effect!†says one comment on Video from GitLab.
Read the original article in English here.