Cameras off in Zoom meetings

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I'm bored so I'll launch a debate, what do you think those of you that have to do this in a professional setup (software developer), of the colleagues who keep their camera turned off durring the infrequent, quick, few people involved yet official Zoom meeting?

Besides not following "when in Rome do like a Roman" (me being a Romanian myself), I suspect them of the following, in decreasing order of offense:

1) Being straight assholes.
2) Working another job which just happens to have the daily Scrum meeting at the exact time. Very probable when working for companies in the same timezone.
3) Being shy.

Well, I can teach #3 to do #1 and #2 while at the same time being professional Roman soldiers doing what's required of them. I can't and I won't tolerate slacking on the job while looking (and probably already contracting) the next opportunity.

They are not my friends. They might be my comrades, if we're in for the same job but they're not friends. So fuck them, if they don't perform they are just taking up resources that could be filled by a better suited recruit.
 
Video call without camera on == phone call. We all did those fine for decades.

1.Normally it is not having shaved and i look like a bum, spare the other people from having to look at my unkempt face.

2. Or if company insists on very early morning scrum i could still be in bed and grab my laptop if i was up coding late the night before. Im not a morning person.

3. You dont have to be on your best focused behaviour, can strech arms, scratch nose, pull faces etc..

4. You dont have to pretend to look interested, even when the meeting is boring and you shouldnt even be in it or if the meeting goes off on an off topic tangent.
 
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Looks like IBM and UPS are finally getting strict on getting back to the office.

This work from home nonsense has gone way too far and corporate knows it.....

Everything is back to normal, time to put on some real clothes and get back to that watercooler talk you have all be missing.

IBM


All US managers must immediately report to an office or client location at least three days a week “regardless of current work location status,” according to a memo sent on Jan. 16 viewed by Bloomberg. Badge-in data will be used to “assess individual presence” and shared with managers and human resources, Senior Vice President John Granger wrote in the note.
 
S2007S said:
Looks like IBM and UPS are finally getting strict on getting back to the office.

This work from home nonsense has gone way too far and corporate knows it.....

Everything is back to normal, time to put on some real clothes and get back to that watercooler talk you have all be missing.

IBM


All US managers must immediately report to an office or client location at least three days a week “regardless of current work location status,” according to a memo sent on Jan. 16 viewed by Bloomberg. Badge-in data will be used to “assess individual presence” and shared with managers and human resources, Senior Vice President John Granger wrote in the note.
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Only if you meet their diversity quota
 
You forgot the least offending option #4: If you have to have your camera on while in the meetings you couldn't choke the chicken. Any tips for this?
 
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Make sure the Mic is off as well as the Camera for that one.
Although if you forget to turn the Mic off then you can say the heavy breathing and grunting is because you have a treadmill under your desk.
 
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>> 1.Normally it is not having shaved and i look like a bum, spare the other people from having to look at my unkempt face.

If I can see your ugly mug day by day in the office then there's no problem seeing it on Zoom. Else I'll hire another ugly bastard who can put an unshaved ugly face in front of a camera for 15 minutes a week in exchange for 4x-10x the average pay in the area.

>> 2. Or if company insists on very early morning scrum i could still be in bed and grab my laptop if i was up coding late the night before. Im not a morning person.

>> Im not a morning person.
Me neither. Right after putting some pants, turning on the camera and making a 15 minutes conversation at 10 AM(!!!!) I go right back to bed till about 12. Pour me a coffe, eat something, around 2 I'm capable to at least understand my surroundiongs. At 4-7 I can take a bullet and don'not feel it. Around 21 PM I start to feel the bullet though so I hafta go to bed (although I'm a Dacian werefolf (https://www.piticigratis.com/2014/12/haiduci-daci-varcolaci-vanatoarea/) and regenerate). By 9 AM next morning I'm recovered enough to take a Zoom meeting at 10 AM although my internal organs are still shifting at the time.

>> 3. You dont have to be on your best focused behaviour, can strech arms, scratch nose, pull faces etc..

Haiduci. Daci. Vârcolaci. In translation, Roman auxiliray troops. Been there, am there.

>> 4. You dont have to pretend to look interested, even when the meeting is boring and you shouldnt even be in it or if the meeting goes off on an off topic tangent.

If you are working with Dacian Werewolf Outlaws (Roman auxiliray troops), you'll together laugh at this. We shit in space just because shitting in house doesn't seem quite right. (https://www.piticigratis.com/2017/03/haiduci-daci-varcolaci-in-spatiu-revelatia/)

At this point in space and time I'm just looking for some comrades to shit in space with me. That's about it.
 
>> Only if you meet their diversity quota

Well I might be just diverse enough for Western white Caucasian guys to vote for me.

Who you gonna elect to rule the World after Putin / Trump?

If I'm long lived and lucky enough I'll witness them choosing their successors. Who's gonna be and what they gonna do and first and foremost, why?

Do you see it so nigh-impossible that a Dacian Werewolf Outlaw might take the office?

Is that "diverse" enough? :) I bet you a trillion dollars (about the US debt) that "Dacian Werewolf Outlaws" didn't enter the calculations of diversity people when they proposed diversity as the most diverse diversion they could think of.
 
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