Maybe he has taken up crochet? Or butter churning?
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Skin flute?
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Totally real! Dana Nessel has been a badass attorney general for Michigan. What a lot of people don’t know is that she is one of the main reasons we have marriage equality in the US. She mortgaged her house to cover costs while she litigated the case that eventually went up to the Supreme Court (consolidated with Obergefell). None of the national organizations would fund the case because they were afraid it wasn’t the right time, but she brought in experts and got great findings at the Eastern District of Michigan and pushed it all the way up the line. And now she and her wife are legally married and no one at the AG’s office has to worry about seeing the AG’s Dick on a Zoom call.
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Who has the link to the screen captured video? Did no one on the meeting have the presence of mind to record this?
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Jeffrey Tuber.
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if you put lemon juice on it , it becomes invisible to cameras.
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Isn’t there a cockblocker plug-in?
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I had that once. Was on camera for a TV interview, nervous as shit. Luckily my dog put me at ease, I kept scritching him behind his ears just off-screen.
We had to redo the take.
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Managing programmers is like herding cats though.
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It’s impossible anyway, so you might as well leave it to the incompetent.
(Kidding! It’s more like, the competent ones give up and apply themselves elsewhere. The really clever ones tell upper management they’re still managing the programmers, so nobody else gets in the way.)
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Zoomophilia?
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I’m sorry, I guess I’m just… stupid. It never occurred to me to ever pull my willy out during a work meeting and go to town on myself. Not even a Zoom meeting, which remains A WORK MEETING.
This is not hard. This is not confusing. There is no sudden “oh my god, I’m at home, I don’t know how to behave” shit here. Yes, for some people there are kids at home, that’s definitely different than work. But otherwise? You’re working… you’re in a Zoom meeting… it’s a fucking work meeting! Clear as a bell, full stop. People like Toobin need to stop acting like there needs to be serious mental gymnastics to climb over a mountain of confusion on this topic.
Talk about ham-fisted…
(I’ll show myself out now)
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When I switched to fulltime WFH about five years ago, I found that I had become extremely hesitant to even walk into my office without a shirt… on the weekends. And that was with the computer asleep and the webcam covered. How… the hell…?
ETA: If the word ‘prude’ has an antonym, it’s me. This is unrelated to any of that, just straight up risk management.
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A friend who is the CEO of a small company designing electronic medical devices has apparently given up on programmers, who turned to be talented but completely unmanageable and hired ex-scientist (me) instead 
Programming job is way less stressful than working in academia.
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Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey… this is 2020…
A wise man learns from his mistakes. A genius learns from the mistakes of others.
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Now I don’t feel so bad for picking my nose.
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I use a USB hub with toggle switches for each port. If I’m not in a meeting, then the A/V components are physically switched off.
I also recommend maintaining a healthy set of boundaries and not engaging with one’s erogenous zones while working (unless the job specifically involves said erogenous zones and the other participants consent to and expect such things).
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