Best profile picture rule

One of my clients at work has this IT guy with a furry profile picture on Zoom.

I assumed it was a mistake, people join with dumb pictures/names sometimes, but no. He never changed it in any of our meetings.

And then I looked at his account in our software, which allows users to upload their own photo, and he put a different furry picture there. A strictly work related account, that only his coworkers and us can see.

And you know what, I respect it.

I would call this based, but it's risky. Flirty behavior complaint to HR for having been called a cutie in 3...2...

I really appreciate how they're trying to be nice about it

No worries, you're still a cutie, even in business attire

This reminds me of how my manager cringed when I made an official internal document that needed to be shared with clients using the shizuku version of crystal.

It's amusing how things you never expect to be seen by others suddenly go intercontinental because your company likes them. I have a friend who retired from her corporate job about 15 years ago. She had an excel document (that I guess became some sort of super document, I dunno, I'm not into that sort of stuff), and it worked so well for her work that it became the company standard for a gigantic multinational corporation (they're one of the ones you always hear involved in US wars), and whatever she did couldn't be changed once she left.

That means she occasionally still gets contacted about her mildly suggestive name for the file. It references testicles and corporate greed in one go round.

Literally 1984

Given how shitty a lot of big corporations are, I think this was handled pretty well actually

Share the pic 🥺

Boss: Did you mean to use a shirtless picture on your work profile.

Me: Yeah, that was totally on purpose. I didn't just look through my pictures for a recent head shot and then not notice my nakedness. That would be absurd.

/me changes it as quickly as possible

Kinda based ngl

Getting this email is career goals

If it were my company/cooperative, I would encourage creative self expression like this, rather than try to crack down on it, but this is likely because I'd prefer working on video games instead of boring business stuff (would likely still pick up the latter to fund the former).

Am I the only one that cringed at the last sentence? Seems super inappropriate and unprofessional to call a subordinate a "cutie."

I always had my day brightened at an old job by emails from this guy in Master Data. His email signature was just MC Hammer lyrics disguised as Bible verses, something like Hammerlonious, 4:16-24. Nobody ever asked him to change it or gave him grief about it, since rather than implement something normal like SAP, the company had decided to roll their own in-house ERP system, and he was the only one who actually knew how a good chunk of it worked.

meanwhile in academia I am looking at some random profile pictures: monkey, duck, game logo, monkey, a pub sign which has the guy's name, sloth, a weird flightless bird, couple cartoon characters including alien/kermit. only a couple smart casual profile pics which are actually external collaborators

Do teams photos even show to external orgs?

I had Gonzo in a tux for about 7 years. No one ever even mentioned it to me. How much are people looking at this lol

Report that to HR a week ago

But business attire is so droll dull. Even in the Guy Kawasaki was differentiating between the ties (business suits) and t-shirts (techs so skilled that their casual attire was tolerated.

Weird they censored the picture, the last time I saw this cycle through the picture wasn't censored