{"id":8600,"date":"2023-05-10T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","slug":"zoom-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8600","title":{"rendered":"ZOOM ABUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight I impatiently endured a two hour Zoom webinar while out the window of my home office I watched the sun slowly set on a near perfect spring day. I wanted to be sitting on the back deck with my wife. Heck, I would have settled for pulling weeds in the back yard.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This sort of Zoom abuse should be outlawed.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A big part of my frustration this evening was the value of the material being covered. Can&#8217;t we develop an educational fast track for those who have a certain degree of common sense, self-awareness, and life experience. Certain professional development trainings could be eliminated altogether.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have hit 55 and that means I can get a senior discount at Cracker Barrel. But I would much rather have 45 minutes discounted off a 2 hour Zoom class.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all, I don&#8217;t have hours to spare at this stage of life. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not while the sun is shining and there&#8217;s yard work to be done.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I impatiently endured a two hour Zoom webinar while out the window of my home office I watched the sun slowly set on a near perfect spring day. I wanted to be sitting on the back deck with my wife. Heck, I would have settled for pulling weeds in the back yard. This sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8601,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions\/8601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}