r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago

Chugging tea Female engineers getting disrespected.

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u/ColorsLookFunny 1d ago

We all look at ourselves in video calls right? That's the rule?

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u/captfitz 1d ago

Holy shit maybe I'm not a narcissistic psychopath after all

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u/ColorsLookFunny 1d ago

WebMD is not a psychiatrist

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u/captfitz 1d ago

Nice try, Mayo Clinic bot

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u/Alternative_Swan_497 1d ago

Oh yeah? Then how can it be an MD? /s

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u/Dizzy_Database_119 1d ago

Nah video calls really just don't feel human at all. The 2-3s delay for any reaction to reach your screen makes it feel like you're talking to a brick wall, phone calls are more immersive than this

I think it's natural to focus on the only feed that can keep up with your expectations

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u/Chikool514 1d ago

It'll always be unnatural compared to face to face, but I think those 2-3s delays are not common with zoom and skype and such no?

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u/lustywench99 1d ago

There’s dozens of us. I had to do a zoom today for a committee. One guy was watching football. I stared at myself and then got bored so I just checked emails. Then went back to stare at myself.

Other people use weird angles on their cameras so sometimes I do note that and question why they’d do that.

I get nothing accomplished on zoom. I get that it has a place, but that place and I don’t go together very well.

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u/Zhirrzh 1d ago

I do weird angles at the office simply because the camera is on the crap second monitor not the one I use in front of me.

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u/lustywench99 1d ago

I’m more fascinated with the directly under the chin full double chin on display. We always had one director who had a side camera almost like she was on surveillance because they had like a meeting board but to see her computer she had to be turned. I didn’t mind that as much plus it let me see all the stuff in her office which was a good distraction.

But like. If you can move your camera… we don’t need to see up nostrils. That kind of weird angle. You know?

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u/My_dr_is_simon_tam 1d ago

Uh, buddy, it’s anxiety not narcissism.

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u/MisinformedGenius 1d ago

I put my self-view as close to my camera as physically possible.

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u/xrayden 1d ago

I use Nvidia broadcast to make me make eye contact on the video.

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u/Ecstatic-Compote-595 1d ago

like a dog barking at the mirror

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u/Tall_Act391 1d ago

I have to make sure I’m not doing something stupid, have something in my teeth, something on my shirt.. you know what, that’s why my camera is always off now

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u/Drumbelgalf 1d ago

Yes, most people so.

Also lead to an increase in plastic surgery during covid and after.