GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

🎧"Quick Calls" draining energy?

Since I work remotely, I get a lots of dms asking for quick calls. Every time I see a message, I get slightly panicked. Is it normal? How do you guys deal with it?

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14mo ago
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FluffyNugget
FluffyNugget
Plivo14mo

I can relate. I think our brain has mapped lots of bad experience to it so it preemptively generates the emotion. Gotta remap that neural network somehow

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

How do you deal with it?😭

FluffyNugget
FluffyNugget
Plivo14mo

Hypothetically u get ur work bestie to do this and assumption is when he/she does it, you’ll be happy. So slowly this might overpower the negative. Otherwise repeatedly reinforce urself to stop giving a F when this happens and presume the other party doesn’t give a F either

FuzzyNoodle
FuzzyNoodle

"Hey" without context, from the HR, is what freaks me out

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

Got one yesterday. Thankfully it was to write a testimonial for a co-worker.

JazzyHamster
JazzyHamster

Everytime you got a question, you should ask for quick huddles ... it'll become normal...

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind - Sun Tzu, Art of War

ZoomyMuffin
ZoomyMuffin

It didnt mean war, rather immersion therapy. This trick helped me, especially reduced procrastination during WFH. A quick 5-10 min call with one of your teammates or your manager helps set the context for the day.

GoofyHamster
GoofyHamster
Swiggy14mo

What should be an alternate approach to reduce anxiety? In WFH settings, it can get pretty tedious if I need to type out the entire context for a call each time.

But yeah I don't like to be on the receiving end either

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

Agree to some Degree. For the same reason, I believe in person meetings are better. Getting call every 1 hour though breaks the momentum and drains my energy

ZippyNoodle
ZippyNoodle
HCL14mo

Change the notification sound to something soothing. Disable sound notifications for messages.

I absolutely hate the Teams notification sound.

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

Tried that with my alarm. Doesn't work

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