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)?
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.
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... 😔
Everyone dissociates to a degree. I can guarantee you are doing it at least a little bit. It doesn’t always look or feel like being out of your body. It can be as simple as avoiding feeling feelings by doing things or by being too cognitive.
I’ll tell you something that has worked for me, and it’s the only thing that works.
Music.
Learn enough to improvise and just dive into it. Today I fastforwarded through three straight hours banging drumsticks on plastic buckets at work. I can make whole days disappear just playing my guitar. I disappear completely and just get lost in the sound. It puts me in a trance and I forget I was ever a person.
It might not work for you, but wouldn’t it be rad if it did?
And don’t think it’s too late to learn. My ex sat down at a piano bench at 26 and said, “I want to learn this.” So she did. About a year later she said, “I’d like to learn to play your guitar.” She learned to play it and that’s what she did every evening for years.
Nothing takes me out of this world like playing music.
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.
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.
I frequently join meetings where someone is going on a whole explanation and 10 minutes later someone asks if he is sharing anything. So he starts over.
It's beneficial to declare that you're going to share your screen, but without waiting for someone to confirm that your screen is visible, as it's more or less frictionless to declare it but high friction to wait for confirmation.
Or sometimes it's wise to filter out when some of your colleagues are filling out meeting time with nonsense. You only get brain fatigue and get nothing for it.
Oh, everyone but themselves. Some people have next to no self-awareness, you see. And if you have no clue what I'm talking about, chances are you're one of them.
Of course, which is kind of my point here. But your rhetorical question only works if the situation is very specific, which is weird given that - as you point out - you have no insight into my situation at work. To summarize, you have no case.
You see, sometimes people use expressions like that in an informal, half-joking manner. But I'm starting to get a feeling for why you seem to be taking this conversation so personally...let's do something else now, shall we?
It’s pretty clear from this thread that people are telling you you’re an asshole based on how you treat other people, directly reflected by your first couple of comments in the chain. To ignore your own earlier behavior and instead goad an argument is simply more evidence that you’re the type of person that generally sucks to work with.
I was off somewhere else very pleasant, heard your voice, and got ripped back here. Sorry I’m not really paying attention to this meeting, and I’m not really sure where in the thread we are at this point.
Obviously that’s acceptable to you, so I know you’re cool with it. I’m gonna go back to dreamland. Nothing you say is important or relevant to me anyhow.
I get that you are determined to put me down because reversing course now would make you wrong, and you’d rather block your ears than ever admit you might have punched the wrong person—but, to assume that people not paying attention in a meeting have an actual, diagnosable, “mental disorder” is really rude to the people who actually do live with those problems.
You really should be ashamed of yourself. Ignoring your peers. Criticizing people who want you to treat others well. Throwing around “mental disorders” with reckless abandon.
In this entire thread I’ve not called anyone a name, but you sir or madam, have earned it. You are an asshole.
…what? How did you even assume all of that from two comments? You sure you’re replying to me and not to the strawman in your head? I haven’t said a single one of the things you’re accusing me of.
Someone is an asshole for accurately describing an adhd symptom?? Lol. I have adhd and my most debilitating symptom is zoning out. You are actually insulting adhd people AND trying to claim moral superiority. Hilarious.
It took a lot of back and forth for them to finally bring that up. They were using it as a weapon, which is in appropriate. They weren’t bringing it up as an exception.
I get it. You see all the downvotes, don’t read any of the comments that led up to this one, pick the one thing that impacts you, and make it all about yourself.
There is no moral superiority here. No one is winning anything. No one is a better person.
I’ll go back to my original statement before blocking you as well:
Some people are not able to work from home. Some people don’t pay attention during meetings. If you have a disability that impacts your ability to focus, that’s something you can handle with your coworkers. However, if you are, as they say, a “normal person,” (funny you were ok with that, I wasn’t) you should give your peers respect and pay attention.
I appreciate your comment. I wasn’t trying to be all “you should work, kids these days!” Or anything like that. Obviously I could have just ignored them, but sometimes we gotta die on the hill.
I think a lot of people don’t have a good working environment, and this hit home for them.
I get that people space out. Everyone does it at some point. My takeaway from all this is that I’m really glad I work with a group of people who respect each other and really want to help their fellow coworkers do the job they’ve been paid to do, so we all can pay rent.
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.
