Using #microsoftteams app for #workfromhome during the #pandemic became a muse for many of my #satirical jottings. IT is pretty lifeless to engage in a #virtual meeting, when we are forced to curtail our 'human' tendencies. Even more lifeless when we are to present our work or showcase, as reading out Thomas Grey's elegy( With just voice-modulation as a cue, I am sure most of us would have painted vivid pictures of the person(s) at the other end of the call- beyond the pulsating icons of their initials, You need to crack the puzzle of who is behind the 'apparently' disembodied voice!. Well, some of us developed extra-sensory abilities to decipher/decode many meanings just with a voice!)
The Awkward moments - You cannot zone out, beware!
Just when you thought, it is safe to daydream, you get impromptu cues to turn on the video during virtual meetings, especially when you have just fooled around with the "The West Wind" (P.B Shelley's poem), and your mane resembles the 'fierce Maenad' . Or the ascetic get-up of men, who had bid farewell to their grooming kits and felt it right to sport a Veerappan-style moustache, Even better the Mahakumbh-inspired- beards(You might have witnessed those saadhus of Mahakumbh, trying to perform antics with their 'gifts'. ), which transported you virtually to the haven of 'Rishikesh'. Not to mention, the pepper 'n' salt make-over used to project the 'intellectuals in the making' and the gleaming "गंजू पटेल s" whose 'crowing glory' could have replaced solar reflectors! Let us be fair here. The fairer sex proved to be no less of a shocker with their crooning voices behind the screen, unraveling like the epic character 'Draupadi in exile' - strife-torn, unkempt tresses, raring for the war clarion(comparable to the modern-day flag-bearer feminist who is a rebel without a cause!). Ah, the men bow out in humility
What the confines of #remotework hid behind its remoteness, Microsoft #teams brought it to light by capturing it all - the many personas that we had adopted behind the walls, enjoyed their share of publicity, though unwittingly
"Quick?" We take our own sweet time to buckle up!
But the best of all, is #microsofteams never disrupted the 'night PJs' life. It was so in sync with the grogginess- or morning blues, the app always functions in 'retro-mode' (like caught in Einstein's distended space-time) - hanging, hiccoughing like a wayward drunkard or jet-lagged traveler, who wants a prolonged sleepover! And when it does awaken it is like the monster Mothra(from Godzilla) who just wants to eat into all your system's resources like an insatiable larva!
To the many avatars of teams and to the many forms that manifested in us through the virtual mode- Are we progressing towards the close-to-realtime virtual world or digressing in our human ways of connecting with our fellow beings? Is #metaverse in the offing? Or is it a Frakenstein's monster in the making?
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