While scrolling through X, I saw a video that made my HR blood boil. The scene is a young woman speaking with her boss through a computer screen. The boss tells her to turn on her camera. She objects, he pushes. She counters.
“I’m just a bit confused. When I auto-applied through Sprout with a tailored cover letter and resume for this role, there was no mention of my camera being on as a requirement. So, I just want to clarify, does the productivity of the meeting depend on whether you can see me, and if there’s been a change in expectations since the application? I’m happy to loop in HR so we can align.”
The boss says, “Okay, let’s just move on.”
And the employee nods her head and says in a self-satisfied tone, “That’s what I thought.”
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Your reaction to this is rage baiting me. “You’re teaching folks they don’t have to do what their bosses say.” Newsflash. They don’t. It’s high time than these so called leaders realize they are not gods.
If a company fires someone for something like this (CEO should be fired ) as opposed to what they can do in their actual work then that company deserves whatever ill it gets.
And yes. I’ve been in HR for over 15 years. Most of that as a manager and prior to that I was an engineering manager for another 10 years.