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A decent, humane manager. At my company, all the ICs I respect have camera off meetings. Only managers, obnoxious ladder climbers, and outside consultants are
by civilized 5y ago
A decent, humane manager.
At my company, all the ICs I respect have camera off meetings. Only managers, obnoxious ladder climbers, and outside consultants are constantly pushing face time.
- side_up_down 5y agoIt sounds like there's some other cultural problems at your company :)
- civilized 5y agoNot with the people having the camera off meetings!
- andrei_says_ 5y agoYeah where did phone calls go? Just a couple of years ago the standard medium for a meeting was a conference phone call. Just because it’s easy to always have a videoconference doesn’t mean that we should.
- ttmb 5y agoYMMV, apparently. For me, the standard medium for a meeting for decades been face to face, with videoconference in second, long before covid changed everything. I have always hated phone calls, and conference calls specifically are one of the circles of hell.
- microjim 5y agoIn a general sense yes agreed, but there's a genuine value to seeing peers in meetings that I didn't appreciate until I did more stuff that was in essence presenting stuff for feedback. For individuals choosing camera on vs. off when participating in meetings, whatever the choice, I bargain more than would admit are making some form of status calculation. Personally I bias towards on often as it feels more... friendly?