In the same vein, try not to broadcast from your bedroom. That’s the book your parents bought and, well, you never want to imagine your parents having sex and you certainly don’t want the world to see it. If you do have books there, make sure you don’t include titles such as How To Whip Yourself Into a Sexual Frenzy or How To Get Your Boss’s Job.
I’ve found myself straining to read the titles on the books on the shelves that reporters use as a backdrop (as if any of them have ever read a book. And you’ll probably get the wrong number and end up chatting with the Pope.Īlso, if you’re going to appear on television via Skype, check the books behind you. In the same vein, don’t do Skype calls when you’re drunk. Try and look respectable from the chest up. I know working from home means you don’t need to shave, do your hair, wear clean clothes, but it’s best not to go into a business meeting looking as though you’ve totally given up. And likely never will.Īlso, if you are Skyping a lot, it’s important not to let yourself go. But the other 12 or so people on her Zoom meeting couldn’t stop laughing. For the sake of decency, I won’t add the link. Someone did that on a video now doing the rounds. Second, if you decide to go to the bathroom for a pee, remember not to take your phone with you. Rachele with an e but pronounced Rachel March 30, 2020 My boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting and can’t figure out how to turn the setting off, so she was just stuck like this the entire meeting /uHLgJUOsXk And that’s the nickname she won’t ever lose. The problem is she didn’t know how to turn the filter off, so she led a team meeting as Potato Head. The boss of a small team of workers had downloaded one of those fun filters that transform your face into something else. Just gives us a glimpse into her private life, not the whole picture.Īnd nowadays, as we broadcast from our offices and living rooms, there’s a certain etiquette we need to follow. She knows she has to get the setting just right. Does she prepare her own quinoa and kale fritters? Does she have a maid? A cleaner? A husband?īaez, being a performer, knows how to put on a show. The kitchen behind her, with rich wood, tile, a fireplace in the corner and tidy counters came straight out of a design magazine. Nice kitchen.”īaez, like many of us broadcasting from our homes via Skype, FaceTime, Zoom, Google Hangouts and whatever, is opening the door to her home, inviting us in. When the folksinger Joan Baez posted a video earlier this week, in which she sang a song for the ailing blues legend John Prine, I found myself not just being impressed by her singing voice, moved by her support for Prine, but I also thought, “wow. His coronavirus diary will appear here regularly. Ian Haysom, a veteran journalist and writer, is a news consultant for CHEK. CHEK News Ethics, Standards and Corrections Policy.
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