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Not directly on point, but I've gotten pretty ruthless about protecting myself from some pretty serious zoom (or teams, in our case) abuse. I was in a meeting 3
by flkiwi 2y ago
Not directly on point, but I've gotten pretty ruthless about protecting myself from some pretty serious zoom (or teams, in our case) abuse. I was in a meeting 3 days ago and the person leading it said "Ok everybody, let's hop on camera so we can see all your shining faces!" More harmless than it reads written down like this.
My response was, verbally to the whole group, "Not for me. I've been through two hurricanes in two weeks and haven't had power in 5 days, so I'm going to skip the camera. Thanks!" I'll talk all day long, but nobody has any claim to my face or to making me perform. Until the pandemic we lived in a world where vast amounts of business happened on the phone, and while I tend to think video-based tools have presented HUGE opportunities to improve collaboration across diverse geographies, they've also created opportunities for abuse from people who want petty control, the first of which is ensuring they can call you out for looking out the window, looking at your phone, etc. Pound sand.
- seizethecheese 2y ago> nobody has any claim to my face or making me perform. Sure, but employers also have a right to make cameras be required (saying nothing of the wisdom of such a policy). Most people have a huge amount of requirements to “perform” in their work in various ways.
- MarioMan 2y agoI'm a bit miffed that Zoom "outs" you as someone with a webcam. If you have a camera, it shows up as such in the participants list. All of my desktop webcams are virtual, but Zoom couldn't know that. It gives this false notion that I'm rudely keeping my cam off, when really I'm just preventing people from seeing a static OBS virtual camera screen. On the flip side, if you want to be sneaky, you could probably remove/disable all of your cameras in software, which then telegraphs to everyone that you don't have a camera at all, even if you do.
- flkiwi 2y agoI just blame it on atrocious corporate crapware making my camera not work again. "Sorry!" (I am not, in fact, sorry.)