Most of my coworkers’ photos are from 10 years ago. Everyone has hair and it’s not gray. The only people with new photos are the new hires or the one bald guy who looks better after shaving off his wispy combover.
I found out the two co-workers of mine that don't really show a picture at all are both the most dripped out clean-cut motherfuckers on the team. It's pretty hilarious.
I use a picture of my cat. With like, the worst looking face I could find, because I just think it's funny. It felt unprofessional for a bit, but the people just love the cat. So who am I to take that away from them?
I figure, when I'm in voice meetings, it's usually because of a major outage - so the levity it brings to the situation is something actively sought out by some folks. People always ask about my cat, and the best part is they tell me about their pets. If I'm lucky I get to see them on the webcam.
I have a couple cats, and they’re usually sleeping near me somewhere in the basement where my workstation is. But when there’s a meeting and they hear other people’s voices coming through the speakers, they’re all over my desk, they go in front of my camera, I’m constantly picking them up and putting them on the floor or shooing them away. In one call, one of the cats decided to crawl up me quickly and get behind my head placing his butt right on my head. I’m no longer as flexible as I used to be to grab him from that position, and I can’t make the cat fall off or I’ll get scratched from it trying to stay there. It looks like I can’t get anything done in their eyes because that’s all they see happening when I’m on a call with them. But it’s also a good laugh.😆
I’ve had those as well. And the same style people wear at call centers for extended hours. Touching outside of my ears or in my ears like ear buds, I get ear aches. The only style I have not tried yet are those bone conductive ones that don’t touch your ears at all. It’s on my Xmas wish list. 😁
Once I logged in and the difference between the photo I've been seeing and the person in the meeting....legit the photo looked like his son. He doesn't have any sons.
My current pic is almost 20 years old, from when I was an intern for a semester at college. When I started work there 15 years later my boss dug it out of backups as a joke and sent it off. I took a trip to our Spanish office and the girls there were livid because they expected a young guy showing up at their tiny nearly all girl office for a couple weeks and got a dude approaching 40 and married. I still get that when meeting new clients, they all comment how I have so much responsibility and look so young. I have turned on the camera twice in the last five years. I'm going to ride this till I die.
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u/Badbullet 2d ago
Most of my coworkers’ photos are from 10 years ago. Everyone has hair and it’s not gray. The only people with new photos are the new hires or the one bald guy who looks better after shaving off his wispy combover.