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It’s not rude, but definitely eager beaver energy
So a different perspective…I’m in live meetings all day and I’m the host. I’m always 10 minutes early in case someone wants to ask something before the official meeting starts, if someone wants to chat casually or tell me about their cat, whatever. When the meeting starts it’s all business so no, it’s not rude or offensive to start a meeting early.
One option is, you know…don’t join until the start time?
Don’t join until the scheduled time. Not that difficult. Why does it give you anxiety?
Join at the scheduled time. Stop making everything about yourself. If there’s other people that also join early too they can chat about other non-meeting specific things or wait until scheduled time.
The only thing you can control here is your response. They may have a reason for doing it like they are in a new room and need to test the a/v etc.
Valid
I join early if I’m in the middle of something and likely to get carried away. If I notice the time like 5mins before meeting I’ll join. Most times when I don’t do that, I end up being late.
I do this sometimes, too. It allows me to finish up a task without being anxious about the time.
Not rude but let me chill damn
You dont have to join early. I join early because if I dont, i will be late since I will be doing something else before the meeting. Better be early than late.
If you aren't early, you are late!
Came here to say this!
It’s not rude let the people live. You can join the call when you want or even don’t join if you don’t want
Not rude at all… they may be joining early in case others on their team want to prep/get on the same page (if others happen to be available, but should not be required without notice given their respect that others may be coming from other meetings or whatever), they may want to try to finish something quickly and avoid being be late, they may be testing a new system setup/laptop/audio device/camera, making lunch or moving around, running to the restroom, getting water/coffee, other reasons, I’m sure. Regardless, it probably has nothing to do with you and them just doing their thing to prep. Nothing for you to do in response, unless you want to chat with them quickly or they ask you to in advance to join early to catch-up/prep. Though they might not even be able to talk yet. I worked with a few PPMDs who joined early to prep/chat/make themselves available to others, but did not expect others to join early too, so I joined if I could and it was always valuable to take advantage of their time. Sorry for the long response.
Totally agree. It is rude and vain at the very least. Only exception would be if there was some somber or extremely good news that needed to be shared timely.
No I don't have issues
Ha I am jealous of those people as I’m on back to back meetings all day and am lucky if I join a meeting on time and not 2 minutes late.
Yes especially when you're already on another call and they've set their reminder to 15 minutes beforehand.
I jump on scheduled teams calls when outlook tells me it's starting regardless of when someone else starts it plain and simple
I can't stand this but I had a partner in my old firm who was so OCD about everything that nothing could wait for him, so he would do this all the time.
I was always brought up with being on time is late. I’m connecting at least 5-10 minutes early to work out any technical glitches.
I’m with you. Biggest issue is that by starting it that early, I’m not going to get the notification at the actual start time. I need those!
Huh? No. Someone sends a meeting invite and it gets added to my calendar.
When someone starts a meeting I get a notification the Teams meeting started, then when the meeting time hits I get an outlook notification. It’s not rocket science.
I have done that when I am getting in my car and don’t want to try to dial in when driving
I am taking something positive away from this thread, so ty! I have a Teams interview next week. And personally, my Dad is a veteran growing up we were always on time. There was no such thing as being late. That translated to me always planning ahead. As an adult? i am always on time. Not obnoxiously early. But 10 min? Yeah.
Is that the standard, overall consensus for Teams meetings, check in at the scheduled time?
If you had an in person interview, you would be there 15 mins early right? Same applies here. If the Interviewer is ready and wants to get started early, great, you both got some extra time. I just treat a virtual interview the same as an in-person hence my early rule 🤷🏼♂️