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[–] [email protected] 143 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, the connection was choppy. Can you say that again?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is my go-to as well. "I'm sorry, my audio dropped out, I didn't quite catch that".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Ich habe Sie akustisch nicht verstanden."

Just in case you are on with the German clients and you need the correct expression.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

I’m stealing this. This is smooth as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So glad that my team is largely composed of busy tech folk because going "Sorry I was multitasking" is a valid response haha.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Unless you've got some guy who knows multitasking is a bunch of bullshit and you just weren't paying attention and is enough of a dick to say it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Multitasking (or multipasking as it is known to Finnish speaking people) is not bullshit, but trying to focus on several things at once and fucking up each one of them.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It really sucks that that makes you a dick, but yeah...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Calling people out for lying about spacing out during boring and mostly meaningless meetings is kinda a dickish move. Worker solidarity and all.

It makes sense to do it if you're management, I guess, but even then... Help each other out. Middle management has more in common with the lower level workers than they do with upper management.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Disassociate from a group, dissociate in your brains

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

For some of us, it’s both.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Can everyone see my screen?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but you accidentally shared the one with the porn.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Sucking is kinda the point though.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I read it as a wild and free traveling cowboy, tricked by a sneaky man dressed as a rabbit. The rabbit-man invites him to a zoom call which in this world is inescable, bringing him to his fate as the boring businessman man in the last panel.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Are you an office drone dreaming you're a cowboy or a cowboy dreaming you're an office drone?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Sorry, I'm here but I'm not all there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Fuck. I hate this. Stop it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Guys, I'm embarrassed but I got to ask: can someone explain how it should be understood?

No, I'm not making fun of it. I legitimately don't understand it and I would like to.

From the other comments I get it's something about video calls at home and maybe people yelling while on them? I'm confused because the guy walking on the horse is also relevant (perhaps in minding his business and being disturbed by others yelling)?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

man was dissociating during a work zoom call while thinking about dissociating and whether it was "dissociating" or "dissasociating". he was pulled from his daydream by the person in the call asking him if Thursday was good. then they're all waiting for his answer and he doesn't even know what was asked.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Disassociate from somebody, or something you are associated with. Mentally dissociate. Is that right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Reading the differences, I'm not sure I've experienced either. I don't even have a disconnect in thoughts and behavior when immersed in VR or when I attempt to meditate and reach that state intentionally. I've never been able to not think about something I don't want to. I just want to feel like I'm not in my body and forget a bunch of awful stuff... 😔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They have mushrooms for that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Drugs might be a way to give you that, but to my limited knowledge it is not a good idea to use drugs while in a bad mindset.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

You're on mute!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This feels like the ending to Terry Gilliam's Brazil (the real ending, not the Americanized bullshit version).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The two prefixes (dis and as) mean the opposite, so when you choose one you need to remove the other

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Nah, I'm gonna ociate.

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