Get dressed, comb your hair and turn the camera on. Grow up!

No. If you're required to be camera on its because they need to see your face. There isn't a way around this, nor should their be.

Anonymous wrote:OP have you ever worked f2f with people? Or has your whole "career" been WFH?
You need to broaden your experience. People who work together are allowed to see each other f2f or on camera. Learn how to act in a meeting. Hint: it's not wearing jammies eating and picking your nose and making faces.

+1. It’s not wearing a mask in your own home either. Come on.

And BTW— before lunch I was on camera with a nice solid colored t-shirt, a necklace I always wear and neat hair. I keep a light weight dark structured cardigan ant my desk to throw on over my t-shirt if I really need to based on the level of the meeting. And wear yoga pants and slippers. I’m neat from the shoulders up, and it’s fine. This isn’t onerous

Anonymous wrote:OP here. So, no one can come up with ways to block or blur? Thanks to the one person who offered real suggestions for the question I asked.

You can blur your background, or set a different background. And I often do. I’m sure it’s possible to blur your face. I’m also sure that it will piss people off and you’ll be told to cut it out.

i personally rarely look at and never judge the faces of non-speakers on a zoom call, fwiw, short of there being some kind of jeffrey toobin scenario. i wouldn't make any assumptions about somebody's facial expression unless it was really egregious. but i do appreciate having the cameras on, just to know who is there. so maybe try to remind yourself that it's unlikely your face is being judged as harshly as you seem to worry.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. So, no one can come up with ways to block or blur? Thanks to the one person who offered real suggestions for the question I asked.

What is the point of turning your camera on if you’re going to block your face?

She is a toddler who wants to appear like she is following the rules while clearly not following the rules. It's similar to "not touching, can't get mad" we used to do as kids.

OP have you ever worked f2f with people? Or has your whole "career" been WFH?
You need to broaden your experience. People who work together are allowed to see each other f2f or on camera. Learn how to act in a meeting. Hint: it's not wearing jammies eating and picking your nose and making faces.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. So, no one can come up with ways to block or blur? Thanks to the one person who offered real suggestions for the question I asked.

What is the point of turning your camera on if you’re going to block your face?

Anonymous wrote:OP here. So, no one can come up with ways to block or blur? Thanks to the one person who offered real suggestions for the question I asked.

You're an idiot. You do realize you're an at-will employee who can be replaced in a split second. You're choosing a very stupid hill to die on.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. So, no one can come up with ways to block or blur? Thanks to the one person who offered real suggestions for the question I asked.

Surprisingly, technologies designed entirely for the purpose of showing your face, don’t have a ton of options to do the opposite of that.

Bunch of boomers lol

OP here. So, no one can come up with ways to block or blur? Thanks to the one person who offered real suggestions for the question I asked.

Anonymous wrote:We had a couple people on our team that would habitually not turn their cameras on and it really pissed her CEO off and he finally sent out an all staff message saying that it's unprofessional not to and the expectation is cameras will be on. I was fine with that. Why do adults seem to be told this?

I don't get it either. It's so rude not to show your face on a video call. When my kids were doing virtual learning during the pandemic, they were practically the only ones with their cameras on, and the teachers loved them for it. But to me, it's basic courtesy.

Were you hired to a work-at-home position, where this was expected, or was this imposed on you during COVID without your agreement? This matters.

If you were hired with the expectation that you would be regularly engaging in video calls, then, yes, it makes sense to expect that you would be on camera. If you were not hired with this expectation, then the expectation is not reasonable.

Anonymous wrote:Can you wear a face mask? What does everyone here think about that? You can say that you don't want to get your family sick. Or take days off when the meetings are scheduled.

Good Lord. What sort of untreated anxiety issues do you have that you feel the need to come up with stuff like this. So basically you're trustworthy employee really cause you're willing to come up with lies for whatever.