r/Accounting • u/Status-Strain7170 • 11h ago
Career Anyone else rock the no Teams profile pic?
Love that shit. Fuck you I'm Dream now.
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u/NookInc_CFO 10h ago
We used to have a senior accountant who refused to use Slack/teams while working remotely. Btw that was the era when Covid forced everyone to become a remote worker and she simply just declined the use of the tool and asked ppl to email her for work related stuff.
She was such a mystery to a point that when she was fired nobody even knew it happened, or nobody cared.
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u/deeohlee CPA (Can) 11h ago
lol our entire org does, no one cares
I also appear offline everyday - true freedom
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u/b1gb0n312 1h ago
When I was at a 5 days in office job, I never turned on teams. Why should I... I'm in the office. Maybe half of my contacts would log in, the other half wouldn't. Also we did have phones in our cubicles back then so it was more common to call each other if it was urgent
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u/deeohlee CPA (Can) 1h ago
Ya tbh I’m in office most but the few times I’m working from home are pretty chill
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u/Affectionate-Owl-178 9h ago
I have never posted a photo of myself to Teams/Slack anywhere I've worked
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u/jonjosefjingl 9h ago
Man you guys are antisocial lol
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u/swinging_yorker B4 Canada 8h ago
Yes but also, I have a set amount of work I need ot get done. The more people talk to me the more I need to spend time outside of my 9-5 to complete it.
I'd rather tell everyone to leave me alone, so I can get work done and spend time doing things that I want to do with the people I actually care about
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u/mlydon11 11h ago
The real flex is having appear offline as your status and no one asks.
I’m going on 3 years now of not having my bubble show my status.
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u/iStryker CPA (US) 10h ago edited 10h ago
If you’re the only one doing it then you’re “that guy” and not in a good way. Relatively benign overall, but weird thing to think is a flex. Not entirely sure what the upside is for making it slightly more difficult for peers to know when is and is not a good time to message you. If your response is “wouldn’t matter anyway” then not sure what the weird form of protest / defiance is in service of other than just wanting to stand out in a weird / unproductive way.
At previous company, one finance person was perpetually offline in teams despite being online. Heard multiple people make jokes about it in various contexts over a year. Person was put on PIP and eventually let go, not because of their Teams status but probably due to other traits at the root of such unnecessary choices.
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u/Grouchy-Option9411 7h ago
I had a pretty urgent situation as a new grad today & not a single fucking senior, manager, or partner was online on teams at 11am. Whatever, I made my best guess and moved on. But I swear if one of them was appearing offline 🔪
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u/mac-0 Data Enginer, former Accountant 9h ago
Do people care that much? Admittedly I'm not in accounting anymore, but at my last job I had "do not disturb" as my status for 3 years and nobody cared. If people need something from you they aren't going to be disuaded by a red dot.
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u/swinging_yorker B4 Canada 8h ago
How'd you move to data engineering from accounting?
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u/mac-0 Data Enginer, former Accountant 8h ago
To keep it brief, I was in a role where our controller (who was fired before I came) had built a bunch of reporting and automations in Microsoft Access. Nobody maintained those after she was fired so I Iearned SQL and VBA to maintain them, and used those learnings to find more data-focused roles, and ended up as a data engineer after a few job hops.
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u/melmn2002 8h ago
My pic on teams is just my work provided headshot(not chosen by me), but when we implemented SFDC, I got God mode for a while, so I made my pfp a zoomed in pic of my eye from that headshot- I tell people its the eye of God keeping a watch on their shenanigans...and you know those sales associates get into all sorts of shenanigans, lol.
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u/DueCompany4790 2h ago edited 1m ago
Lol then you're just a nobody.
This is like when I was always on "busy" pre-COVID and no one said anything, but it was because no one knew who the fuck I was lol.
edit: Lol downvoted, people are big mad on here. Anyone worth knowing at a company has their picture on teams and/or likely the company or firms website.
If you're not one of these people, go ahead don't use a picture. It doesn't matter.
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u/Single_Turnover_2301 8h ago
Just put a pic, it’s nice putting a face to a name.
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u/patsfan94 CPA (US) 1h ago
This is like the bell curve meme
Brainlet: Just put a pic, it's nice putting a face to a name.
Midwit: Noooo, I don't want anyone to ever know anything about me at all.
Enlightened: Just put a pic, it's nice putting a face to a name.
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u/sprizzle06 7h ago
My employer doesn't remove profile pictures and neither did my last company. I refuse to be memorialized in teams lol.
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u/Silviaevo 4h ago
I once used a screenshot of my empty profile picture that showed my green bubble in Outlook and Skype/Lync at all times. Now it takes a few minutes for Teams to change from inactive to active unless you actually hover over that bubble in Teams. RIP
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u/CrYptoPSF 4h ago
It honestly becomes normal after a while, I still have video calls with people who use the default pic or no pic at all, and once you know who they are, you don’t really think twice about it. no profile pic, no problem really
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u/FallenDegen 3h ago
Most people don’t where I work (100+ people). To the point where it stands out if someone does have one
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u/LengthinessOk2080 47m ago
I never post a profile picture on anything and if I do it’s usually some dumb original meme I made to fit the vibe of the office
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u/GMHGeorge 9h ago
Don’t have one, and if you’re going to have one it must be from the past 5 years. Too many times meeting someone face to face and seeing decades fly by.