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It's been 19 months of this stupid pandemic poo poo, and people still complain when you don't turn on your webcam? gently caress, I haven't turned it on since Apri 2020, and then it was just to play a prank on people (I put on some filter that edited a cat on my head). It's useless anyway since I always look at my second screen anyway, and the camera is on the primary one.
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I’ve not turned my camera on for a meeting more than about twice, because it’s a stupid Dell laptop with the camera down by the keyboard and I use external displays, and also because I don’t fancy showing you the little makeshift office I’ve created.
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Aug 31, 2021 10:10
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That is a company culture thing that I will never understand, and is part of my questions list to ask when interviewing. A friend did a short stint at a place where the expectation was camera on in meetings and he was strongly encouraged to do so after a couple of weeks of not doing it. Being in a room for a meeting and controlling your face is one thing, but when behind a camera? Guarantee I would forget and be making faces or laughing at what people said inappropriately. No cameras ever, gently caress that.
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Aug 31, 2021 10:42
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The director of sales at my last job said that not having your camera on was like coming to a meeting and listening through the door rather than coming into the room. I'm glad I didn't work in sales and had a boss and colleagues who didn't care.
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Aug 31, 2021 11:06
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I once literally did the classic *head desk* meme in a meeting full of people when I forgot the camera was on the real exaggerated UGHHHH *clunk* *lean way back*
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Aug 31, 2021 11:32
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We got some bullshit "people feel isolated and we think it's important for mental health to see everyone's face" theory for why cameras are necessary. gently caress off boomers, this is the internet age. I've got friends I've only known though an Xbox headset for 15 years and we do fine.
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Aug 31, 2021 12:21
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ConfusedUs posted:Quoted for unvarnished, unadulterated truth. Yeah, maybe I score pretty well on one measure of intelligence, that just means I'm good at the type of thinking that test is focused on, not some overall genius of everything. My best friend holds a PhD in radiochemistry, he's legitimately intelligent as all hell. He's also earned the "dumbest smart guy I know" appellation multiple times over, especially at festivals and concerts. He's a super chill friendly drunk, but maybe not so good with stairs...
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Aug 31, 2021 12:36
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xzzy posted:We got some bullshit "people feel isolated and we think it's important for mental health to see everyone's face" theory for why cameras are necessary. Even if that were valid, my coworkers are like the last people I want to see to fill that void. The only thing I want to see is them carrying their load instead of "well Kyro's the only person without kids so...". 
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Aug 31, 2021 12:41
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Here, let me dampen the echo chamber a bit. I'm so happy to be back in the office. Staying home all day, every day, was destroying my sanity.
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Aug 31, 2021 13:02
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devmd01 posted:No cameras ever, gently caress that. I've got a friend that works for a company that requires whenever you aren't in other meetings, you join "ongoing meetings" with your boss so they can make sure you're at your desk working.
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Aug 31, 2021 13:14
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nielsm posted:Here, let me dampen the echo chamber a bit. I'm so happy to be back in the office. Staying home all day, every day, was destroying my sanity. For me, the balance is somewhere in the middle. Previous job, we had to be in the office any 2 days of the week. Work was a 12 minute walk door-to-door. Absolutely perfect situation for me. My current role is now WFH full-time but since my commute was 45-minutes I don't complain. I moved to a new state for the job, so my immediate social circle is lacking and I do agree it has weighed on my mental health.
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Aug 31, 2021 13:26
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Sheep posted:I've got a friend that works for a company that requires whenever you aren't in other meetings, you join "ongoing meetings" with your boss so they can make sure you're at your desk working. what
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Aug 31, 2021 14:51
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Aug 31, 2021 14:55
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 I am hoping, praying that I will be forgotten about tomorrow when the office staff open enrollment Zoom meeting happens. I've dodged that poo poo for a year and a half, and I can't afford the company insurance anyway. Think I'll be running errands, since they already emailed out the packets and I use FoxitPDF so I can fill them right the gently caress out.I don't even have a webcam on this craptop. If they make me go I'll stay unmuted and everyone can listen to my 4 insane kids playing and screeching in the background. 
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Aug 31, 2021 14:55
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sounds like you need a raise. how hosed up is it that your employer doesn't pay you enough to afford their own health plan
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Aug 31, 2021 14:59
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I'm dreading going back to the office but it's going to happen because one of the directors signed a 5 year lease right before lockdown and will lose face if we don't go back. That fucker will continue to work from home as he always has. We have no infrastructure there, it's open plan so full of distractions and interruptions and everyone's been working just fine from home for a long time now. What a waste of two hours of my time every day that commute is. I've got my home office set up nicely and I prefer the company of my cat over my coworkers.
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Aug 31, 2021 15:02
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Many companies have "reasonable" single plans, but jack it way the gently caress up for employee + spouse or employee + family plans. But yes, they also aren't paying them enough.
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Aug 31, 2021 15:03
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our covid protocols are basically designed to make this happen quote:Will the school require vaccination of students or staff? when i started working here, the director told me that the safety of children on our campus was our #1 priority. that guy quit and the new director seems to prioritize schmoozing and avoiding difficult conversations
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Aug 31, 2021 15:07
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It's just teaching the kids that survive this pandemic what it's like in the corporate world. No one gives a gently caress about you, your purpose is to fuel the capitalist machine so the CEO can buy another yacht. So you better do what you can to give a gently caress about yourself.
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Aug 31, 2021 15:14
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Weedle posted:sounds like you need a raise. how hosed up is it that your employer doesn't pay you enough to afford their own health plan DelphiAegis posted:Many companies have "reasonable" single plans, but jack it way the gently caress up for employee + spouse or employee + family plans. This. If I was single, I could absolutely afford the $15 a check for the single plan. However, my wife needs coverage too. Our kids have insurance through the state. See, I live in Florida - one of those annoying loving "gap states" which means that I am poor, but not poor enough. My kids get coverage no question, because for our household size, we're well under the FPL. Florida didn't expand, though, so because I make more than 40% of the FPL for our household size, my wife and I are ineligible. Real fun when I need to see the doctor for a glut of issues (potentially including diabetes) and she needs regular checkups and meds because of her POTS and other things. It is frustrating to feel like I can't provide. I digress, though. I don't make great money but it's enough to pay our bills, and I definitely have the potential for raises. At some point, if I advance in the company like I should, I'll be able to afford it. For now, though, it...is what it is.
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Aug 31, 2021 15:16
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Sywert of Thieves posted:It's been 19 months of this stupid pandemic poo poo, and people still complain when you don't turn on your webcam? gently caress, I haven't turned it on since Apri 2020, and then it was just to play a prank on people (I put on some filter that edited a cat on my head). It's useless anyway since I always look at my second screen anyway, and the camera is on the primary one. Our cameras are also mandated to be on, so as a silent protest I've made this my Teams background:  Only about 30% of the people who see it actually get it and that includes people on my team.
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Aug 31, 2021 16:36
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millions of children are going to be hospitalized and no-one in power will do anything because chuds might yell at them ~Yay, education~
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Aug 31, 2021 18:54
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If those kids were billionaires they'd get stimulus funds and tax breaks. Dumb kids, just be rich.
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Aug 31, 2021 18:56
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:millions of children are going to be hospitalized and no-one in power will do anything because chuds might yell at them I keep forgetting that not all kids are back in school already. My kids have been in school since mid July and being in AZ masks are completely optional. We made it 3 days before the first positive case at school and haven't gone more than 2 days without at least one case at the school (one day had 11 positive cases). School buses now run 30+ minutes late every day because the bus drivers are all out sick and they just don't have the coverage. We're hosed. 
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Aug 31, 2021 19:04
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bitterandtwisted posted:I'm dreading going back to the office but it's going to happen because one of the directors signed a 5 year lease right before lockdown and will lose face if we don't go back. That fucker will continue to work from home as he always has. Wife's job is selling their bad rear end recently re-done office. So they will be buying a smaller one since only like 6 people come in. If she has to WFH permanently she will probably find a new job since she likes going in to work (right now she goes in twice a week)
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duffmensch posted:I keep forgetting that not all kids are back in school already. My kids have been in school since mid July and being in AZ masks are completely optional. our entire faculty/staff got exposed at the mandatory in-person all-hands meeting the week before school started
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Aug 31, 2021 19:22
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:millions of children are going to be hospitalized and no-one in power will do anything because chuds might yell at them To be fair, part of it is that the chuds are taking over the school boards too.
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Aug 31, 2021 21:02
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chuds yell at the non-chud board members, who quit, and are replaced with chuds...
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Aug 31, 2021 22:34
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Thanks Ants posted:I’ve not turned my camera on for a meeting more than about twice, because it’s a stupid Dell laptop with the camera down by the keyboard and I use external displays, and also because I don’t fancy showing you the little makeshift office I’ve created. Heh. I know exactly which laptop. Dumb design. I turn my camera on for our team stand ups and 1-on- with my direct manager. I don't give a gently caress about them seeing my "office". Behold the mismatched white Christmas lights hanging from the ceiling of my cave-like garage! Yes, that's a sixer of beer on the gaming table behind me. Yes, that's a goddamn animal skull next to two swords on the wall. And for the first couple months of this bullshit you would have heard the drat 3d printer singing the song of it's people whenever I unmuted. (this is what happens when you let your boyfriend have the garage as his gaming space) Fucks about these people, I do not give. Did I do my job on time and not lovely? Okay then.
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Aug 31, 2021 22:56
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I just applied for a new job 
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Aug 31, 2021 22:57
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if i ever turned my camera on when i was wfh my catholic coworkers would have gotten an eyeful of all my wife's naked witch art hanging on the wall
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Aug 31, 2021 23:33
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One of the PMs at our company (that I thankfully never have to work with as his projects are for other software) sent out a long email last year with his protocols for Teams meetings with customers. It made the rounds. The items I can remember are:
He would email managers to complain if people joining calls weren't turning on the cameras. I don't think he was around when the head of the services department made the comment that all project members were equal, whether a PM, BA, or SE. PMs manage the project. Your own manager manages you. Plus there's the fact that our team was moved out of the services department years ago, meaning the only common node on the hierarchy was going all the way up to the owner.
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Aug 31, 2021 23:43
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PMs often need to be reminded that they help engineers and not the other way around.
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Aug 31, 2021 23:47
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Internet Explorer posted:PMs often need to be reminded that they help engineers and not the other way around. 
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Internet Explorer posted:PMs often need to be thrown out of a sixth story window
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Sep 1, 2021 00:20
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The funny thing is the first two line items are legit. Then it just goes off the rails.
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Sep 1, 2021 00:56
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I've mostly worked at small companies where I just bought poo poo willy-nilly from CDW or Insight, or bought from whoever else using a company credit card. Turn in my receipts, need a signature for anything over a certain amount...easy to do. Here we have to get two bids. Even if I'm just buying a bunch of network cables or a couple monitors. Email my rep at both cdw and connection (were supposed to have three quotes) Back and forth email or call about what I want etc etc. two days later I had usable quotes, then I have to enter them into Dynamics, someone in purchasing has to process the order.... I have it improved a bit by getting an online account with the VAR so I can quite poo poo myself and get the worst part out of the way. But still...
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Bob Morales posted:I've mostly worked at small companies where I just bought poo poo willy-nilly from CDW or Insight, or bought from whoever else using a company credit card. Turn in my receipts, need a signature for anything over a certain amount...easy to do. I would agree that making GBS threads yourself is the worst part of any purchasing process. However, I do have to question why it is part of your process to begin with.
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SyNack Sassimov posted:I would agree that making GBS threads yourself is the worst part of any purchasing process. 
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felt like making GBS threads myself every time i had to talk to our SHI rep. thanks for nothing, gareth
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