'Action words are called verbs.'
'How many laptops have been dispatched?'
'Are the failures due to script issue or environmental issues?
Good Morning Toastmasters and Guests!
Introduction :
If you peep into our study room this is what you will get to hear. We have never ever imagined that three of our worlds(My husband, my elder daughter and mine) would collide together like this and we would get a chance to peep into each other's worlds. No more secrets! Every thing is transparent now. Thanks to the pandemic and the lock down. Honestly we might not have had regard on each other's jobs as such if not for this WFH .
Meetings:
Our team meetings can be divided into 3 types.
1. We talk and others listen
2. We listen and others talk
3. We talk, only when questioned
Second and third category meetings do not bother us much. Only the 1st category meetings are considered to be dangerous when we work together in a room. My scrum calls are the most vulnerable ones. There were several times my team mates would say, "I can hear a background noise" Perhaps my husband would be shouting on top of his voice during his category 'one' meetings. Now all my team mates know very well that the 'background noise culprit' is me. They have stopped saying, "I can hear a background noise" and started feeling bad for me and even started giving innovative suggestions on how to attend parallel meetings.
By 10' o clock after preparing the breakfast and having it, all 3 of us would start the day in our study room. First discussion would be with my husband, about the list of meetings for the day. We are safe if there are no conflicting category one meetings. During the conflicting category one meetings, we would take turns to run between rooms and most of the time I take the balcony since my younger one, elder one and my husband would take the 3 rooms respectively. I had never ever imagined that a 3 BHK would still be insufficient for a small family like ours. My balcony meetings have become really popular in our gated community that my neighbors know the name of all my team mates. They know when my scrum calls start and they would eagerly come to their balconies to listen. After coming to know of these gossips, I stopped my balcony meetings and preferred to be 'cross talked' and 'eaves dropped' by my husband and kids. As the saying goes, 'Every thing is safe when it is within the four walls' :)
Charger
Apart from the meetings another important thing we fight for is the plug to connect our laptop charger. We have only 2 plug points in the room. One goes for my daughter by default as her laptop is pathetic and needs power supply all the time. The other plug point is the one we both (me and my husband) keep fighting for. When one of our laptop goes off, we make sure the other person feels guilty about making use of the plug point too much without sharing.
Familiarity with Work Patterns
Me and my husband had no clue about the type of job we were doing before the lock down. Now we know each others' team mates' names by-heart and we know each others' schedules and meetings and work patterns very clearly that if we would swap our roles we would smoothly execute our duties without a transition plan in place.
Talking with the boss
Though me and my husband do not hesitate to attend meetings, talk to colleagues and peers in the presence of each other, some how we feel uncomfortable to talk to our bosses when some one is around. This is a strange feeling which requires a bigger analysis and research (probably in another speech). We always run to a room where no body else is around when we talk to our bosses.
Online School
Previously I had no clue about my daughter's subject interests and how she would listen in a class. Now I can clearly see her behavior in the class, which subject she is really fond of, which one she hates, a lot about her class mates and their mischievous pranks. I owe a lot more respect for the teachers post the lock down after seeing their online classes. I wish I had patience like them.The chat boxes would suddenly be filled with random letters, special characters and numbers by the pranksters and the teacher would say nothing but, 'Ashwin..You are a good boy no? Dont type on the chat box unnecessarily". Suddenly some one would say, "Mam I know this already mam." and the mam would say, "Very good. But the others should also know right? Please mute your mike Vineeth". One of the students would even say, 'Mam the class is boring' for which the teacher would prefer to ignore. I guess the school system has totally changed from our good old days, when we were scared of our teachers. I used to wonder are these new generation of teachers always sweet and patient like this or is it because of the virtual class that is being monitored by the principal and specially by the parents? In any case they still deserve a big round of applause.
Younger One
My younger one who is 2.5 years old, prefers to watch TV or play with her sister when I am available. Once I start my office work, she cries and keeps uttering the words "Amma venum!" I attend most of my category 2 and 3 meetings with my younger one on my lap. Trouble comes when a category 2 is converted into category 3. This is when my mom comes to the rescue.
I had my biggest shock of my life when I got a mail from her school stating that she has to attend online classes starting from next week. I made a big mistake by enrolling her for this academic year for a prekg. I never ever had the slightest clue that we are going to be stuck with this lock down. I am sure she is not going to sit for the classes and we dont have any more laptops to spare.
Conclusion :
As a result of the pandemic and the lock down we are all under going a lot of mood swings and negative thoughts. The only way to stay positive is by enjoying the moment and looking at the humor quotient and laughing out loud. These times will never return.
'How many laptops have been dispatched?'
'Are the failures due to script issue or environmental issues?
Good Morning Toastmasters and Guests!
Introduction :
If you peep into our study room this is what you will get to hear. We have never ever imagined that three of our worlds(My husband, my elder daughter and mine) would collide together like this and we would get a chance to peep into each other's worlds. No more secrets! Every thing is transparent now. Thanks to the pandemic and the lock down. Honestly we might not have had regard on each other's jobs as such if not for this WFH .
Meetings:
Our team meetings can be divided into 3 types.
1. We talk and others listen
2. We listen and others talk
3. We talk, only when questioned
Second and third category meetings do not bother us much. Only the 1st category meetings are considered to be dangerous when we work together in a room. My scrum calls are the most vulnerable ones. There were several times my team mates would say, "I can hear a background noise" Perhaps my husband would be shouting on top of his voice during his category 'one' meetings. Now all my team mates know very well that the 'background noise culprit' is me. They have stopped saying, "I can hear a background noise" and started feeling bad for me and even started giving innovative suggestions on how to attend parallel meetings.
By 10' o clock after preparing the breakfast and having it, all 3 of us would start the day in our study room. First discussion would be with my husband, about the list of meetings for the day. We are safe if there are no conflicting category one meetings. During the conflicting category one meetings, we would take turns to run between rooms and most of the time I take the balcony since my younger one, elder one and my husband would take the 3 rooms respectively. I had never ever imagined that a 3 BHK would still be insufficient for a small family like ours. My balcony meetings have become really popular in our gated community that my neighbors know the name of all my team mates. They know when my scrum calls start and they would eagerly come to their balconies to listen. After coming to know of these gossips, I stopped my balcony meetings and preferred to be 'cross talked' and 'eaves dropped' by my husband and kids. As the saying goes, 'Every thing is safe when it is within the four walls' :)
Charger
Apart from the meetings another important thing we fight for is the plug to connect our laptop charger. We have only 2 plug points in the room. One goes for my daughter by default as her laptop is pathetic and needs power supply all the time. The other plug point is the one we both (me and my husband) keep fighting for. When one of our laptop goes off, we make sure the other person feels guilty about making use of the plug point too much without sharing.
Familiarity with Work Patterns
Me and my husband had no clue about the type of job we were doing before the lock down. Now we know each others' team mates' names by-heart and we know each others' schedules and meetings and work patterns very clearly that if we would swap our roles we would smoothly execute our duties without a transition plan in place.
Talking with the boss
Though me and my husband do not hesitate to attend meetings, talk to colleagues and peers in the presence of each other, some how we feel uncomfortable to talk to our bosses when some one is around. This is a strange feeling which requires a bigger analysis and research (probably in another speech). We always run to a room where no body else is around when we talk to our bosses.
Online School
Previously I had no clue about my daughter's subject interests and how she would listen in a class. Now I can clearly see her behavior in the class, which subject she is really fond of, which one she hates, a lot about her class mates and their mischievous pranks. I owe a lot more respect for the teachers post the lock down after seeing their online classes. I wish I had patience like them.The chat boxes would suddenly be filled with random letters, special characters and numbers by the pranksters and the teacher would say nothing but, 'Ashwin..You are a good boy no? Dont type on the chat box unnecessarily". Suddenly some one would say, "Mam I know this already mam." and the mam would say, "Very good. But the others should also know right? Please mute your mike Vineeth". One of the students would even say, 'Mam the class is boring' for which the teacher would prefer to ignore. I guess the school system has totally changed from our good old days, when we were scared of our teachers. I used to wonder are these new generation of teachers always sweet and patient like this or is it because of the virtual class that is being monitored by the principal and specially by the parents? In any case they still deserve a big round of applause.
Younger One
My younger one who is 2.5 years old, prefers to watch TV or play with her sister when I am available. Once I start my office work, she cries and keeps uttering the words "Amma venum!" I attend most of my category 2 and 3 meetings with my younger one on my lap. Trouble comes when a category 2 is converted into category 3. This is when my mom comes to the rescue.
I had my biggest shock of my life when I got a mail from her school stating that she has to attend online classes starting from next week. I made a big mistake by enrolling her for this academic year for a prekg. I never ever had the slightest clue that we are going to be stuck with this lock down. I am sure she is not going to sit for the classes and we dont have any more laptops to spare.
Conclusion :
As a result of the pandemic and the lock down we are all under going a lot of mood swings and negative thoughts. The only way to stay positive is by enjoying the moment and looking at the humor quotient and laughing out loud. These times will never return.
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