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Leave the Cam off? This guy is fapping during a zoom call. He should lose every job! WTF and what a fucking moron.
Zero excuses for this kind of behavior.
I WAS a big fan of him. No more.
Honest question that I doubt many will answer truthfully.... Have you ever fap'd while a work call is going on? (E.g. boring status call, corporate news, training, etc)
 
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"I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera," Toobin said. "I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers."
"I believed I was not visible on Zoom," he added. "I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video."

Maybe it's because I'm a woman, but what about any of that quoted above makes even the idea of masturbating during a zoom business call in any way acceptable? Boundaries? Got any?
Some of you... Don't seem to know what goes on with a large majority of men.

I just imagine married women in here that blissfully think their husbands don't rub one out ever and only have sex in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation.
 
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Basic mistake of whipping it out on a conference call? That's not a "basic human mistake" - that's sexual harassment in tbe workplace and would probably get most people reprimanded at a minimum, and likely fired given the seriousness of the incident.
So now for sexual assault you don't even need intent or not and actual intended target? Christ you guys are just going batshit crazy.
 
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zoom meeting for work is a meeting for work. Irrelevant how many hours he worked that day or week. Work time is work time.
So you haven't checked your personal email, looked at your fantasy football, looked at sports news, checked your stocks, browsed amazon, or ANYTHING similar to that nature in your working career during any worthless corporate calls, boring training, etc?


Okay buddy. Keep telling yourself things. Maybe one day it will actually come true if you find a genie.
 

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Honest question that I doubt many will answer truthfully.... Have you ever fap'd while a work call is going on? (E.g. boring status call, corporate news, training, etc)

College me had sex in several offices.

42 year old me with a highly professional job and doing webex daily as a part of life and having 2 kids at home on e-learning? Nope. Keep your dick in your pants.
 

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So you haven't checked your personal email, looked at your fantasy football, looked at sports news, checked your stocks, browsed amazon, or ANYTHING similar to that nature in your working career during any worthless corporate calls, boring training, etc?


Okay buddy. Keep telling yourself things. Maybe one day it will actually come true if you find a genie.

That's quite a false dichotomy from whipping your dick out while working.
 
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Honest question that I doubt many will answer truthfully.... Have you ever fap'd while a work call is going on? (E.g. boring status call, corporate news, training, etc)
no.

fap while modding here?

plead 5th.
 
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College me had sex in several offices.

42 year old me with a highly professional job and doing webex daily as a part of life and having 2 kids at home on e-learning? Nope. Keep your dick in your pants.
Ah so "I totally understand and see it when I was younger. Now that I'm older I can't imagine why anyone would".

Great argument there.
 

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See the post I quoted. It wasn't limited to just the dick shindig.

I put that under the scope of salary. You pay me to shit post on occasion. I pay it back when I get woken up at 3am from on-call pager and you aren't paying me for that.
 
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So you haven't checked your personal email, looked at your fantasy football, looked at sports news, checked your stocks, browsed amazon, or ANYTHING similar to that nature in your working career during any worthless corporate calls, boring training, etc?


Okay buddy. Keep telling yourself things. Maybe one day it will actually come true if you find a genie.

Use at your own risk. Work is work, these are inexcusable things to do while working provided your employer said they are not to be done and if your employer hasn’t clearly said these are acceptable activities one should assume they are not.
Yes I have terminated a Woman for clocking in moments before her shit began than retreating to the bathroom to apply makeup and fix hair. She was not prepared to work. The need to disappear for 20 minutes to do hygiene items that should have been completed before work makes her late. She continued to do so.
I gave a guy a written warning about fucking around of fishing websites, same as above. When at work you are expected to do work.
 
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Ah so "I totally understand and see it when I was younger. Now that I'm older I can't imagine why anyone would".

Great argument there.

One. I'm pretty sure I can go back and quote you on people getting more conservative as they get older.

Two. It was a party of two and she consented. Not poor Sally from materials management that was on a zoom call with the rest of the office.
 
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I put that under the scope of salary. You pay me to shit post on occasion. I pay it back when I get woken up at 3am from on-call pager and you aren't paying me for that.

And someone rubs one out at 3pm after not getting sex for a week to release built up hormones so they can concentrate on their work.

I'm in the same boat, I have calls at 3am because we have a client that has folks in APAC. Same with calls that go over to 7PM, meetings the next morning that I have to prep for till midnight, etc.

If Im forced to work at all hours of the day it sounds pretty reasonable to fap during the day if needed.
 
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Use at your own risk. Work is work, these are inexcusable things to do while working provided your employer said they are not to be done.
Yes I have terminated a Woman for clocking in moments before her shit began than retreating to the bathroom to apply makeup and fix hair. She was not prepared to work. The need to disappear for 20 minutes to do hygiene items that should have been completed before work makes her late. She continued to do so.
My employers have ultimately told me, I don't give a shit what you do as long as you get your shit done and attend meetings that you're expected to be prep'd for presenting.

Latest employer doesn't even have me doing a timecard or any other crap. Though part of the reason I was doing timecards previously was for billing client hours.
 
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And someone rubs one out at 3pm after not getting sex for a week to release built up hormones so they can concentrate on their work.

I'm in the same boat, I have calls at 3am because we have a client that has folks in APAC. Same with calls that go over to 7PM, meetings the next morning that I have to prep for till midnight, etc.

If Im forced to work at all hours of the day it sounds pretty reasonable to fap during the day if needed.

Haha I’ve had union guys get paid more than 24 hours in one day because of on call compensation rules. I can’t remember the numbers but each clock in to answer a question or fix something was guaranteed like 2 hours pay but they didn’t overlap. The math was sort of weird but basically they could take 10 calls/pages/email projects and end up with 28 hours pay for a 24 hour day. Something about if the got summoned to do something within the first hour and within the final moments of their day.
Sweet gig those guys had but I know occasionally it would be 3 days of hell.
 

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There's a lot of daylight between me at 11pm on a Saturday having sex with my wife and answering a page out breath.. .

And...

Jerking off at 3pm while on a work call *I knew* I needed to attend via zoom and doing it because I got interrupted the night before.

If you don't see the nuance there, then it says a lot about your binary world view.
 
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I think he was being honest. There's nothing he could say to make it OK. Maybe he could have said "This isn't an excuse. What I did was not acceptable." Would that change things?
He can be honest all he wants but it's still sexual harassment at the minimum. I guess it's no big deal at the New Yorker and CNN.
 

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That is an interesting piece. Beatings will continue until morale improves!

It's just a wordy veiled excuse that Puritanicals abuse others over such scandals, therefore he should be next in a long line to be tarred and feathered. As I am sure is already occurring. People involved in such accidents have their professional lives ended. Their income eliminated. Houses foreclosed on. Think about the actual punishment that occurs, does it match the crime?

I think I'd be less bothered if America actually had safety nets. Granted, he may be rich enough to be immune to such pain. But that's just one lucky SOB in a long list of those less fortunate.

On a curious note, given their greater expressiveness towards nudity, I wonder how European countries would handle similar situations.
Who the f wants a coworker jerking off on a work video meeting? Not me. Seems like the cancel culture is now too harsh.
 

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Who the f wants a coworker jerking off on a work video meeting? Not me. Seems like the cancel culture is now too harsh.

Where's your FREEDOM TO JERK OFF?

Freedumb!

Thought America was a Free Country.
 
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Some of you... Don't seem to know what goes on with a large majority of men.

I just imagine married women in here that blissfully think their husbands don't rub one out ever and only have sex in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation.


I don't know anyone in this thread who has said anything even close to that. I do think that a large majority of men do not masturbate on sex phone calls with women other than their wives during business video meetings. You seem to think that's okay. I feel sorry for your wife.
 
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Use at your own risk. Work is work, these are inexcusable things to do while working provided your employer said they are not to be done and if your employer hasn’t clearly said these are acceptable activities one should assume they are not.
Yes I have terminated a Woman for clocking in moments before her shit began than retreating to the bathroom to apply makeup and fix hair. She was not prepared to work. The need to disappear for 20 minutes to do hygiene items that should have been completed before work makes her late. She continued to do so.
I gave a guy a written warning about fucking around of fishing websites, same as above. When at work you are expected to do work.

Is posting on a politics forum considered work?
 
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I don't know anyone in this thread who has said anything even close to that. I do think that a large majority of men do not masturbate on sex phone calls with women other than their wives during business video meetings. You seem to think that's okay. I feel sorry for your wife.
So are you suggesting that married men rubbing one out for standard porn is normal and acceptable, and your problem is specifically with his chosen old school fetish of phone sex?
 

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So are you suggesting that married men rubbing one out for standard porn is normal and acceptable, and your problem is specifically with his chosen old school fetish of phone sex?

No. I didn't say that either.