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rh71

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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s0me0nesmind1 said:
I'll be honest, whenever I have to be on camera for work meetings, I like to zoom out quite a bit so there isn't so much focus on my face.

Of course, I hate assholes who turn on cameras in meetings altogether. I always worry I'm going to do something like roll my eyes when someone says something stupid and I'll forget people can see it.
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I'm curious why anyone ever has to be on camera except during job interviews (my wife recently) and of course pandemic tv. I have been in IT since 2000 and have worked from home since 2005. Not once was it ever required for any client. I have never even seen the faces of my last 3 or so managers except as a picture they chose to use as a profile pic.
 
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s0me0nesmind1

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rh71 said:
I'm curious why anyone ever has to be on camera except during job interviews (my wife recently) and of course pandemic tv. I have been in IT since 2000 and have worked from home since 2005. Not once was it ever required for any client. I have never even seen the faces of my last 3 or so managers except as a picture they chose to use as a profile pic.
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Hipsters on the west coast are much more likely to push for it.

Also pre-pandemic, we never really did it much... but we would also do notable ones in-person instead of online as well.

For what it's worth, my work is related to selling large software packages to big companies.
 
destrekor

destrekor

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Nov 18, 2005
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rh71 said:
I'm curious why anyone ever has to be on camera except during job interviews (my wife recently) and of course pandemic tv. I have been in IT since 2000 and have worked from home since 2005. Not once was it ever required for any client. I have never even seen the faces of my last 3 or so managers except as a picture they chose to use as a profile pic.
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IT here too (IT services for business clients), and our company has weekly meetings. Used to be in a conference room - COVID moved that to Teams. I suspect the need to show ourselves comes from the same original "no electronic devices" requirements for the meetings -- all about minimizing distractions (and relatedly: observing that we appear to be paying attention and taking notes).

With clients? Never. A couple software providers have pushed it and I never enable the camera.
 
sdifox

sdifox

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Sep 30, 2005
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destrekor said:
IT here too (IT services for business clients), and our company has weekly meetings. Used to be in a conference room - COVID moved that to Teams. I suspect the need to show ourselves comes from the same original "no electronic devices" requirements for the meetings -- all about minimizing distractions (and relatedly: observing that we appear to be paying attention and taking notes).

With clients? Never. A couple software providers have pushed it and I never enable the camera.
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I have a piece of tape on the camera. It shows my camera is on but it's just shows black image.
 
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