The Cringe Is Strong With The Zoom Wave

Kevin Wanke
4 min readSep 26, 2021

Cringe: to feel very embarrassed or awkward; react with discomfort. That strange, awkward feeling that one gets when you do something that everyone else is doing, but it feels really weird when actually performing the action.

This specific action is one that was never performed in a pre-pandemic world. Walking out of someone’s office or out of the meeting was the final action in the workplace…

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Kevin Wanke

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