Our management wants daily, camera on, pre-shifts. My supervisor, audio only, once, maybe twice a week. Once she goes over all the stuff she needs to cover she asks if anyone has anything they need to go over. We have a few gossips on the team and they will proceed to take over and spend the next hour making everyone listen to what they think.

I’ve told my supervisor to say, anything work related, and then when they start that she should cut them off and say I said work related, if you want to discuss non-work related things you can start your own group chat as long as you are not falling behind.

She has so far refused to stand up to them hijacking our meetings like that, so even though I’m required to stay in the meeting until it’s ended, I just stay silent for a while and eventually leave then set myself to red so it looks like I’m on a call with one of the people I regularly interact with. Nothing has been said and if it is I’ll point out that being in that meaningless meeting is hurting my productivity.

I feel ya, I’m still in my early 20’s…at heart.

I recently made a reference to the saved by the bell very special episode about caffeine to a younger coworker as a joke. I then had spend the next five minutes explaining the episode to her and assuring her that yes it was real.

I’m only in my 40’s damnit…

Steve put so much time into it too. SQRL really is the superior method of the two.

Same, he on my list of actors that I just constantly ask, how do they keep getting work? Of course Jared Leto is the permanent #1 on that list.

Yep that was my thought too. I still looked mine up, I’m just not posting it. Funny enough, it’s a song I never cared for, but I know my mom absolutely hates.

Meh, I’m not really a vacation person. Honestly I have to force myself to take time off every year, it’s not a loyalty thing it’s just in my DNA to just work, my mom is the same, her father was the same. Though I admit I am trying to avoid ending up like him since he was such a worker he died on the factory floor, heart attack not an accident.

Same, easiest money I ever made.

True, I have a good amount of PTO saved up, but I can’t take it in large groups outside of emergencies.

I hated my childhood and there’s nothing that could get me to relive that part of my life. That being said this whole work for money exchange program we’re forced into as adults sucks…40+ hours a week… EVERY WEEK! And no recess or summer vacation!

I just went to the Sceptre website, they have non-smart TVs listed. You just have to look at the listings. I’m sure there are other brands, I’ve just had good luck with Sceptre so I stopped looking.

I’m lucky enough to have the room for a TV and chair so I take advantage of it. Though I do mostly spend my time at the computer, so I have a small TV next tot he computer and just stream ad supported shows that I only half pay attention to. We all do what works for us.

I went with Sceptre, as for the specs, I’m half blind so all I can say is I can see everything clearly.

Ok then the administration should push all employers to make any position that is able a work from home decision. But we all know that won’t happen, got to protect those commercial real estate profits!

I mean that works too, I’m just not a fan of watching things on computer monitors. Sometimes I just want to sit in a recliner and watch a movie on a larger screen.

You can still buy dumb TVs you just have to search for them. You can also go off brand and get a dumb TV from a brand like sceptre.

Non-smart TVs are still available, they just cost a bit more. As for the connectivity issue, China has been caught hiding 5g chips in electrical control systems and city buses, and selling “free streaming” boxes with malware that scans networks and attacks targets deemed worth while. And all these TVs are being manufactured in China so why take the risk when you aren’t going to use the connectivity anyway?

This is why I don’t buy smart TVs in the first place.

Yeah I looked at this and was like, that’s like comparing apples and bowling balls.

You’re thinking long term strategy, YT is owned by Alphabet, a publicly traded company, they are only able to think in quarters. All that matters is short term gains for investors, and besides once the short term gains run out the investors will just dump the stock and move on to extracting what they can from the next company.