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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

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

[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

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

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

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).

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Depends on the business culture. Considering they are only getting a notice after they have to interact with customers I'm going to assume it's a pretty chill culture

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not cat ears in your company profile chill though.

I worked at a huge (but old) company once where the architect at the top of my local pyramid had a fursona avatar as his company profile. Dude was a legit genius, and I'm glad the higher ups had the foresight to just let him be.

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

In my company I have a serious picture in Teams, however in our internal applications (Jira, etc) I have a picture of rasputin. Over Christmas I used a AI tool to put a santa hat on him and used that as my profile picture

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago

Do teams photos even show to external orgs?

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

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

Report that to HR a week ago

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 206 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 days ago

Weird, that line made me cringe and seems super unprofessional

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 174 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're not trying to be nice, they are being nice about it >:3

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

They're being super nice about it!

Like they're absolutely willing to accept whoever you are, they're just worried that other businesses might not be as nice and don't want you to have to deal with that

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure the whole thing is satire and that line is supposed to make it obvious, but I'm just doing me

[–] Toes@ani.social 174 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

I respect the dev, hiyohiyo, so much for this. He gave us something so useful, and he likes these characters, and he's not ashamed to make the skinned versions and put them up for download.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I dunno, I'd be weirded out if someone used a non anime skinned version of crystal. If this makes you cringe I feel like maybe not cut out for tech sector.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You need to remember that the technical people may not have an issue with it, but the bean counters tend to be more stuffy and upright about shit. And a lot of clients are especially up tight in my experience. Something about paying you money and expecting standard business responses.

I wouldn't give a shit if I saw that, but I absolutely would not send that up the chain if a junior sent me that screenshot (or I'd crop it down to the most useful info. Last thing I want to do is listen to some asshole c-level complain at me for 20 minutes about professionalism.

[–] Welt@lazysoci.al 3 points 6 days ago

You're probably more senior than this dev.

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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just recently found CrystalMark and was so confused about the downloads. If there was only anime girl skins I would have looked elsewhere, despite it being highly recommended lol. Can't send that to our CEO and demand we change hypervisor throughout our company...

[–] Toes@ani.social 31 points 1 week ago

I remember thinking it was really pretty and added some life to the dull corpo experience.

It ended up working in our favour, our clients were weebs like me.

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[–] atmur@lemmy.world 155 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago

I like when I start a job and someone has a furry avatar. I know who to go when something weird comes up I can't figure out. It's worked out for me so far.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this:

Not sure if this is real, but you know you've won at life when you can submit something looking like this and still get hired.

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[–] saplyng@piefed.social 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I work as a Linux sysadmin and I have quite a few plushies strewn about my office; and for my profile pic I have Ikea Japan's Blahaj in a business suit. Have yet to here any grief about it!

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[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I have a coworker with a furry pic for his work profile! He recently updated it to a different art of the same character. This guy is totally commissioning art of his fursona and using it for his work profiles. Im honestly kind of impressed by his dedication. Hes some kind of rodent like maybe a possum?

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[–] pipe01@programming.dev 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Based will come when corporate finally pulls their heads out of their arses and accepts that to hire good IT people need to to go to the cat girls.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago (8 children)

They know, they just don't want other companies to know. They might steal the cat girls

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[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 81 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] skygirl@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago

Getting this email is career goals

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago

Literally 1984

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 36 points 1 week ago

Share the pic 🥺

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