Should I report naughty friend

**** at Zoom meetings may be a positive thing with increased productivity and reduced tension - wisdom ****, post nut clarity etc.

"Ok all, I'm going offline for a few minutes, when I return I'll have some great new ideas. PS - that's a nice outfit, Deirdre "

Gruffalux wrote: »

You must have to be on the look out for it. I have never spotted people with hard-ons subtly humping the hoses at the petrol station.

Not so, G. Merely “observant”. I find the act of waiting for the petrol tank to fill quite boring so I look around. I’m not one to stare at the counter to try and stop it at a certain amount.

The guy I saw that time, in the grey tracksuit bottoms, wasn’t “humping” the hose. It was more like his was resting his junk on it and slowly moving over it. Had he been humping he might have been able to hide, or disguise, his “tumescence”.

As it was, the grey tracksuit bottoms provided little “cover”. And, as I said, it was clear, and graphic.

These creeps are everywhere, G. Hopefully you don’t come across too many, or, worse still, they across you. There was a “European Sharking” case out around UCD last year. Shocking stuff.

Deleted User wrote: »

No need for the mental gymnastics.

All you need to do is send out a generic email stating webcams should be switched on during conference calls, please and thank you.

"but my laptop camera is broken?" pick on up on Amazon?

Zoom on your phone ?

Two problems with that:

1) HR can't really insist on the right to pry into people's homes. Everyone doesn't have a private, dedicated home office. Some people are forced by this emergency WFH scenario to work at a kitchen table in a shared area, or a dressing table in a shared bedroom. So now as well as the employer insisting that the employee provides an office space for free to the employer, and heats and lights it for free, you think that employers can now insist on the right to visual inspection of the space that they're not paying for? Not a runner.

2) The camera usually shows from the shoulders up, so it may not prevent the matter in hand from happening. Once Mork from Morkeshing can control his orgasm face.

Think its makey up myself but as someone else said - it is a plausible scenario.

Yer man needs to wise up.

Plenty of people out of work worrying about keeping the roof over their heads and then there's this idiot pulling the plum off himself during work meetings.

Employer would be best off rid. Hes adding no value.

This is sexual harassment and gross misconduct and a sacking offence.

Most employers have rules in relation to home working (it is seen as an extension of the office) and the same laws apply to protect employees from this sort of creep.

I do believe that as remote working will be used a lot more in the future, there will be more cases like this.

Also, it is possible that employers will insist on cameras being on. You dont want it on to protect the privacy of your home, grand, blur the background or use one of the backgrounds available. Many employers are giving employees corporate branded backgrounds to use.

Many employers have gone above and beyond to keep people in work and then you have fools like this who doesn't deserve a job.

Also laughing at the load of makey up scenarios on here. Written like 50 shades of **** gone wrong.

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I think you’re confusing frottaging with frotting. The former refers to “getting off” on rubbing up against things, or people, while the latter requires two penises.

You could always spot a “frottager” on a packed bus. They’d stand downstairs and as people tried to pass they’d make out like they were moving out of their way while pushing out their hips to get a “grind” on.

You’d see them at garages too, they sit their crotch onto the hose as their pumping the petrol and “enjoy” the buzz. I’m sure I mentioned it on here before but, not too long ago, I saw a lad in grey tracksuit bottoms doing just this and he had a clear, and graphic, erection showing.

These perverts are everywhere. I don’t think anyone should “cod” themselves that they aren’t on the other end of a work Zoom call.

Interesting! As a practitioner of the fine art of twin dragon sparring (frottage), I'd never come across this "frottager" business.

Makes my antics look positively vanilla!

its probably a scene for his onlyfans

Dav010 wrote: »

You are missing the point.

It is easy to make a new policy, but difficult to enforce it. If a wfh does not want work to see their home, or what they look like when they don’t have to dress up to go into work, or because they’ve a giant zit, there is feck all their employer can do about it.

Not sure what you are getting at.

If you work in person, they can see if you have a zit, same as cameras.

Most companies will allow people time to turn their cameras on, or call time before the meeting starts.

You can blur your background, but they will expect go see you - the person they are paying. It does not explicitly say your contract - no **** during office meetings, but it would be covered by the gross misconduct clause and 99 percent of staff would not be surprised that **** is not allowed.

If you dont like it, you can leave and pull your wire to your hearts content.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Two problems with that:

1) HR can't really insist on the right to pry into people's homes. Everyone doesn't have a private, dedicated home office. Some people are forced by this emergency WFH scenario to work at a kitchen table in a shared area, or a dressing table in a shared bedroom. So now as well as the employer insisting that the employee provides an office space for free to the employer, and heats and lights it for free, you think that employers can now insist on the right to visual inspection of the space that they're not paying for? Not a runner.

Just set a background on Zoom?

JeffKenna wrote: »

Just set a background on Zoom?

Most people I see using backgrounds look horrific and I just want to scream at them as it is very distracting. Even with a decent background image (typically provided by the company), you need a decent webcam, lighting and a solid background for Zoom to properly work. And a lot of companies are not using zoom, but teams or webex etc and they don't all support backgrounds.

Ultimately, you don't want to have to "enforce draconian company policies". Working from home is still a very new concept for most people and companies and they are still struggling with it (but putting a smiley face on it). At this stage, I would still only be suggesting/encouraging/trialling improvements/ideas and not implementing company rules (especially when the only reason to do so is to discourage masturbation during meetings!:D)

In my company, the advice we are rolling out to to the teams is that people should use a video if a small meeting and others on that meeting are using it. It is ok to occasionally not use video. For larger meetings, and especially presentations, where the person is mainly just listening, video should not be used (and only presenters and main participants should be on video).

JeffKenna wrote: »

Just set a background on Zoom?

1) Not everyone uses Zoom. Most corporate VC tools don't support backgrounds.
2) Setting a background, and editing a background for every movement of the person consumes computing resources that should be used to provide clear audio as a priority.
3) Not everyone is comfortable with having a camera on them, with no certainty over who may be recording video and using it for other purposes.

Employers should tread very carefully before making such demands, given the current legal protections on video surveillance.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Employers should tread very carefully before making such demands, given the current legal protections on video surveillance.

A lot of employees are very happy working remotely and would like to continue to do so in some capacity when life resumes.

It is the Negative Nellie's such as this, who will ruin it for everyone. Never happy.

I'd rather turn on the fookin camera when in a meeting than sit for hours in traffic on the N7 five days a week on top of my work week. . I believe 90 per cent of people would feel similar.

Blended work options gives people the opportunity for for a work life balance. It is a watershed moment for those who know the torture of a commute.

But still some people object to being "videoed" which is reality is nothing worse than being there in person.

Meetings are easier when you can see who you are talking to, it also keeps you in touch with colleagues.

As Mr. Tayto says, always one.

nah