kage69
Lifer
- Jul 17, 2003
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We have a daily standup meeting and also 3x a week Teams internal and with clients. Not once did they even think about video. Thankfully.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.
Used to do that too, but they come with built-in slide-covers for the cameras now on laptops. My HP has one. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/7/16979810/hp-elitebook-zbook-2018-announced-webcam-cover-g5I have a piece of tape on the camera. It shows my camera is on but it's just shows black image.
Think I've told my story here before. Basically over the course of 6 months actually using my car regularly, I battled a pregnant squirrel (chewed fuel line, chewed O2 sensor, chewed noise-dampening foam) and only caught it after it finally had 3 babies under my hood. I used them as bait in a cage. This was the release:![]()
This happened to me but it was a squirrel. If you live in the sticks and go consecutive days without using a vehicle, maybe stash some dryer sheets under the hood in strategic areas. Critters can't take the smell apparently. Works far as I can tell.
We have a daily video check in meeting. Daily. It lasts 30 minutes 8:15-8:45am.We have a daily standup meeting and also 3x a week Teams internal and with clients. Not once did they even think about video. Thankfully.
Used to do that too, but they come with built-in slide-covers for the cameras now on laptops. My HP has one. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/7/16979810/hp-elitebook-zbook-2018-announced-webcam-cover-g5