Making myself laugh is worth it. Every time I join a formal Zoom meeting (or any meeting) I get to show off my completely silly gnome profile pic. It really reveals a lot about the people you are in the call with. If they don’t laugh, I really don’t give a shit. I’m so far past having such a corporate stick up my ass that such things are considered “inappropriate” and I’m encouraged by the fact that most of the up and coming tech workforce appreciates informality in the workplace much more, hell, they are clamouring for “gamification” of everything. When you work with people who think even logging into Twitch constitutes a statement of unprofessionalism (all by itself) you just can’t win. After all, I was using IRC at work, despite direct policies against it, or even use of the Web during “work hours” enough to know that such people’s opinions aren’t worth a shit. Actually, a good shit would be worth more, very satisfying.
Did that strike you as inappropriate?
My official response is, “Fuck off.”
As Mattew Lesko says, “I’m probably not gonna like you either, so we’ve just saved each other a ton of time.”
