Someone in my project just joined our team call 3 min early. I fervently believe that is the definition of a psychopath.

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What’s really psychopathic is being emotionally invested in when folks hop on calls - only something to consider!

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Fair point. If this does make me psychopathic, I rather be my kind of psycho than the one that makes people [consistently] join calls early.

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I do that sometimes if I had nothing else to do. I've forgotten to join meetings if I miss the start time.

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I came from the Marine Corps and some old habit die hard. ‘To be on time is to be late’

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Lol, all the veterans on my project start meetings 3-5 minutes early. Actually tho it’s a lot of great bullshitting before the meeting starts.

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One of my team members starts the team meetings as soon as the 15 minute Outlook reminder pops up

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Someone must’ve hurt them.

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Sometimes I join early because I’m having connection issues. Or I am leading and I want to make sure my screen sharing is ready go go. Jesus you people are brutal to one another. Let stuff go. It’s 3 minutes. Imagine if this were an in person meeting?

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Agreed BAH1! I also work at Booz haha

I get annoyed by people who habitually join meetings late and make us all sit there awkwardly for a few minutes “waiting for everyone to hop on.” I just want to get through the agenda and get out of here ASAP, man.

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They’re just as bad!

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I also join 2-3 minutes early, especially if I’m leading the meeting. I’ve definitely had a few situations where I forgot to join and ended up late. Rather be early than late 🙃

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If I see that a meeting's set to start in 3 minutes and I begin another task, I'm likely to get distracted and forget to join. I'd rather not take that risk and just join the meeting muted and wait til everyone joins.

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That's quite a leap there OP. What insights can we draw from folks who never disconnect from a call and wait for the host to end the meeting?

I join 15-10 early every time

I had a manager start meetings 10-15 mins early, and of course I got notifications when he did that. It felt so passive aggressive and weird. Like dude I’m still being productive & working on stuff in the 10-15 min before a meeting

How do you know that, unless you were even earlier??

You get an MS Teams notification when the first person joins.

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