[mikrl]

Every IM I send has an immense emotional toll for some reason. Everyone is overworked and you’re another distraction, you feel like a giant asshole and then project that they’re a giant asshole too until you enter the emotional doom spiral.

In person or on video flows so much more nicely because you can see the effect of interaction and be cordial to each other without the paranoia and dread setting in.

[luckylion]

Yeah, that's a bonus level of complexity, especially when you're reporting directly to someone you know probably has way more important stuff to do but you need a decision from their level about how to approach a certain issue that is constrained mostly by business.