Instead of companies paying people better salaries, they spend a fortune "studying" why everyone is tired and fed up. u/Ready-Excitement7804 • Instead of companies paying people better salaries, they spend a fortune "studying" why everyone is tired and fed up.
The cameras need to be turned on now. u/portent-wreaths-7k • The cameras need to be turned on now. We're still mostly working from home, and recently almost all the daily coordination has been happening on Slack. Most meetings are audio-only with someone sharing a deck or spreadsheet. A not-very-popular project manager started insisting that everyone turn on their cameras "so we can communicate better." A few days ago, he focused on me specifically, and I found myself in a perfect malicious compliance situation. I turned on the camera, and we all immediately understood why news anchors avoid busy patterns. I was wearing a rugby-style T-shirt with thin stripes. Every time I moved even slightly, a shiny, annoying pattern kept rippling across the video. It was the most distracting and irritating thing I'd ever seen on a work call. And they all spent six minutes making fun of me because of the shirt. I spent the rest of the call gently rocking myself back and forth in the chair. And strangely, I'm looking forward to the next meeting with enthusiasm. I have a few more T-shirts that are supposed to cause the same problem.