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CTyankee

(68,483 posts) Mon Feb 1, 2021, 06:54 PM Feb 2021

Etiquette for zoom calls. [View all]

(and I'm not talking about Rudy and that other guy).

First of all, don't eat while you are on zoom. Even if your table manners are great, it just seems weird, a big face on your screen in front of you wolfing down a salad.

It is best to remember you are seen. You are in a conversation with other people. Be fully dressed, comb your hair. Be dressed.

What did I miss?

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Etiquette for zoom calls. [View all] CTyankee Feb 2021 OP

Don't pick your nose. yellerpup Feb 2021 #1

You got 'be dressed', how about making sure that views outside the immediate ZOOM area be SWBTATTReg Feb 2021 #2

that too. CTyankee Feb 2021 #5

I KEEP telling you that wasn't ME!!! ret5hd Feb 2021 #15

Ha ha hehh ha ... thanks for the laugh! Ha ha heh... SWBTATTReg Feb 2021 #25

You mentioned "big face" Just_Vote_Dem Feb 2021 #3

i was sorry I didn't comb my hair better but it's been so long since I got it cut it's pretty awful. CTyankee Feb 2021 #11

I tried cutting my own Just_Vote_Dem Feb 2021 #19

Except for the Zoom calls leftieNanner Feb 2021 #4

Yes. If eveyone is having wine, I would advise not bolting it down. CTyankee Feb 2021 #8

LOL leftieNanner Feb 2021 #14

I don't drink but if I did on zoom calls I would have the nicest glassware and sip gently... CTyankee Feb 2021 #17

Don't distress people by tossing a cat who comes to lounge on the keyboard with you. Hortensis Feb 2021 #6

But do try to discourage your cats from displaying their buttholes before the camera. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2021 #10

Like this? TheBlackAdder Feb 2021 #22

Ha heh ha! SWBTATTReg Feb 2021 #26

Lol! Yes, like that. But any cat determined to get his head Hortensis Feb 2021 #32

Don't stand up if you are only dressed from the waist up Gregory Peccary Feb 2021 #7

Carefully choose your background scene FakeNoose Feb 2021 #9

Or go to Zoom preferences and install a nice background The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2021 #12

Ugh I hate the artificial backgrounds, which always mess up the participant edges Bonn1997 Feb 2021 #31

They do, but at least the other participants won't see the empty beer bottles, The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2021 #33

Pose in front of whatever really nice art you have. On one recent call, I remarked to one CTyankee Feb 2021 #13

Sometimes when I am watching interviews on a news program leftieNanner Feb 2021 #18

That is precisely why frazzled Feb 2021 #23

One of the regulars on MJ has 3 Matisse's behind him. He's rich so they might be originals. CTyankee Feb 2021 #29

No more zoomin' on the throne? Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #20

A couple more Midnightwalk Feb 2021 #16

These are really important leftieNanner Feb 2021 #21

Don't pull a Toobin. MrsCoffee Feb 2021 #24

Exactly... jcgoldie Feb 2021 #27

Um, why would anyone do that when they knew they were going to be on TV? CTyankee Feb 2021 #30

Don't show your private parts left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 #28

It depends on who and what the call is about. There are people who eat meals together through JI7 Feb 2021 #34

The problem is that eating (unless you take dainty little bites of something) seems to be CTyankee Feb 2021 #35

Have an Orchid plant or a Pineapple in the background-n/t marked50 Feb 2021 #36

Don't take your laptop to the toilet with you Withywindle Feb 2021 #37