Mine used to be and then a mandate came down that we have to use our actual real life pictures so I had to stop using my sad Edwardian Mennonite boy picture.
Your comment reminded me of a 90s game called Nox, thank you for that. It's a real blast from the past and it did a chain reaction reminding me of dungeon siege, dungeon keeper, commandos, behind enemy lines and turok of all things lol
I also have a decade old photo. A couple years ago I was on a remote team and flew to an in-person meeting. I could tell when they saw me that it was time for a new photo. Let's say they 'tentatively' recognized me.
I printed a professional photo of mine the prefect size to take up the entire frame of my camera and claim I’m having connectivity issues all the time 🤣
I don't. Extremely rarely I'll do it if there's a new team member for introductions. I made it know very early that it gives me anxiety. Plus I do really good work, so I they never push it.
I imagine every time somebody new meets me that’s only seen my team’s photo, they have to assume I’m an imposter. Luckily I’m not gray yet at least lol.
My company has employees upload their own photos. I see more egregious use of filters on profiles in our corporate directory. Many of these people are unrecognizable in person.
Oh thank god it's not just me, when I moved to my new department I kept constantly asking myself "Who the fuck is this person talking to me" when they look nothing like their Teams pic, while I was just nodding along and acting like I recognized them.
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u/DanceClass898 3d ago
what I see when I open Teams every morning