I try to join about 5 minutes before because I’m terrified of being the first person or the last.
Three minutes before. No more. No less.
In real life meeting most of the value is in the informal side chats that you have just before or just after, in my experience. Unfortunately that basically doesn’t happen in virtual meetings, so I join dead on time, or a minute or two in for larger ones.
I join when the meeting reminder pops up and I click “join”, right on time. I don’t like small talk, no point in being early.
Plus it’s not like there’s anything happening in the first couple minutes. The more people who are in the meeting the more likely someone will be late anyway.
I teach over teams. I plan bullshit for the first 5 - 10 minutes, because there will always be late people.
I feel like people who join really early are basically saying “Tell me you have nothing to do without telling me you have nothing to do.”
Not quite. I join on time because I’m busy and if I don’t join now I will completely forget. I just keep working until everyone else gets there and the I’ll turn on my camera and mic.
Sometimes I join really early BECAUSE I have stuff to do. I lose track of time, so I’ll open the reminder and keep the room running in the background while I accomplish something else, once I hear someone talking, I’ll switch tabs and focus on the meeting.
This is me, too
Probably people who were raised by military parents. My instinct is to join early as fuck, like 10 minutes. I blame my father forcing me to show up early for everything.
If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late.
I had a job like that some years ago, where you were expected to arrive at 540-45 to pregame the day but not clock in until 6. Kind of unspoken, but you knew it was frowned upon if you showed up right at 6 by the death glares (they knew they couldn’t mandate being early because laws, but it was just a soft expectation). Someone must have said something, because they don’t do that anymore, I’m sure that went over super well for whoever said something.
On time, even when presenting. Starting early makes other people feel obligated to join early, so I don’t do it. No reason to extend the meeting longer than the listed time.
A minute or two before. Just enough time to ensure my setup is working.
If I’m hosting a presentation, I usually start 15 minutes early with the first slide saying “Presentation will begin shortly. Pour yourself a coffee in the mean time.”
Previous presentation I had multiple slides, three I think, each with an example of activities they could probably manage to do before starting.
Whenever I remember there is a meeting on. Have to keep those damned outlook 15min reminders on screen or I will forget
Sometimes people don’t include the reminder in their outlook invite. They have no right to expect me to show up at all if they do that. At the very least, they need to apologize when they send me the stupid “Are you attending my meeting?” Slack message.
I never cared about your meeting, Derek. No one cared about it. We only show up to meetings when Outlook tells us it’s time. Our calendars are just endless strings of soul-sucking meetings no one wants to be on, and I will never check mine pre-emptively. I accept everything I’m invited to, Derek. Everything. We all do. Remember the fucking reminder, Derek.
One to two minutes late to most meetings. I don’t have time or energy for the BS of “How are you” etc. Let’s get down to business.
Caveat is that if it’s with a VIP I’ll be exactly on time.
Usually exactly on time, but if I’m doing something that requires concentration and there’s a chance I might lose track of time I might join 5 min earlier so that I don’t miss the meeting.
Aren’t you always the first 5 min before? I know that the times I joined even a minute or two early I’ve always been the first.
Usually at least an hour early to get a good seat.
if im invited then right on time if I host then one minute early, maybe 2. usually. sometimes I have meetings that end 3mins to the next or go over which impact my ability to get to the meeting on time.
Usually as soon as Teams notifies me of the first person starting the meeting.
How can you not always be the first when youre 5min early, wtf xD
Depends on the context.
- My meeting? Right on time.
- Team meeting? On time.
- A meeting I knew about, was on my calendar, and requires my expertise? Right on time, but a lower priority.
- Something is broken and we’re grouping up? Right on time.
- A meeting on my calendar that I don’t really need to be in? 2-3 minutes after, I’ll finish what I’m currently engaged in or get to a stopping point.
- A meeting I’ve been invited to with no additional context? 2-5 minutes late.
- A meeting I was invited to with no communication/context that is before/after my normal working hours? If I remember and I’m bored.
- A meeting I was inviting a to outside of my working hours and will start before I come online? Forget about it.
I work for a global corpo, so the last two happen quite a bit. Time is money friend.
between on the dot and a few minutes afterwards depending on whos hosting. If i know they’re gonna waste time jibber-jabbering at the start I give it a few minutes for that to play out. I don’t care about what you did last weekend Janet.
They reason they chit chat is to kill time waiting for people to join.
Not always. I’ve been in plenty of meetings where everyone was present and they still were off topic for 5-10 minutes at the start.
On the dot if I can.
Same here.
Ha. Bold of you to assume I have some sort of control over these things.
If I join at all, i join whenever the stars align and it occurs to me as something needing to happen.That being said, I usually intend to join just a couple minutes early.
