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One day the time will come.
Everything goes wrong, and catastrophically.
Although you have prepared meticulously, have gone through your arguments again, have considered every eventuality.
Nobody should be able to say that you do not value solidity.
You're a lawyer, after all.
You have clients to represent.
You don't make any jokes.
So you were also taught how sessions in pandemic mode work, everyone at home in front of their computer instead of all in one room.
What madness, you have thought now and then, that now you get to see how the people you talk to are set up.
But you have also adjusted yourself to that, nothing conspicuous standing around with you, no strange art, no catchy objects.
And you shook your head at people who thought they could let themselves go in the home office, do their job in their underpants, because the camera is only filming on top.
When you had important appointments at your home, you said that you should not be disturbed under any circumstances.
Because it makes a strange impression when a child suddenly walks into the picture or a pet jumps on your lap.
There were stories to be read everywhere about what can go wrong during video calls.
This legal expert from the “New Yorker”, for example, who came up with the idea of masturbating a little at a dragging video conference and did not consider that his colleagues could watch him - his career was already ruined.
Or this agent who made fun of an applicant's apartment during an online casting without muting himself.
More and more such stories were told about unsuccessful zoom calls.
And those who got it were ridiculed as embarrassing jokes.
Instead of comforting them with a little compassion.
After shaving.
Source: Covenant Health
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Can you really ask people to pay attention every second to what is being seen in their living room, or to ensure that no one goes naked from the bedroom to the bathroom?
Shouldn't your own home be a safe space where you can be who you are?
And why does everything have to be done by video conference instead of telephone conference, after all, one of the advantages of working at home is that you don't have to see each other all the time?
But that's the way times are, there's no point in complaining about it, you're a professional, nothing will happen to you, not to you.
What should you say?
And then you turn on the laptop your secretary gave you to zoom into the 394th Texas District Court hearing.
Everything looks good.
Everyone is there, Judge Roy B. Ferguson, the other lawyers, sound is on.
But then the judge says, “I think you have a filter on.” He's right, you can see for yourself: instead of your own face, the face of a damn cat.
“I'm here,” you say. “I'm not a cat.” Because you are not a cat, even though you look like a cat who says it is not a cat.
It must have something to do with the laptop, your secretary's kid maybe, some damn filter that makes you look like a cat.
It takes you a very long minute to get rid of this cat's head.
The day after, the story is cleared up.
An age-old webcam software on the Dell computer that had been withdrawn from circulation years ago was responsible for your appearance.
Judge Ferguson posted the video on Tuesday warning that filters should be turned off before zoom calls.
You are now world famous.
Everyone knows now that Rod Ponton appeared in court as a cat, and anyone who Googles Rod Ponton will find this story about you.
You show in interviews that you take it with humor.
What else should you say?