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I am a fresher with over 9+ months of experience as a Data Engineer at Tata Consultancy .
I just needed some suggestions from you experienced folks.🙏
In my current project my colleagues have over 6+ years of experience and are not very supportive and scold me for unnecessary reasons, which is effecting my mental health.😔
Also I am not getting to learn anything.
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Woman (and mom) here and think it is acceptable given the disruptions of daily life present in calls all the time now. Maybe “unprofessional” but so is your kid running around in the background interrupting you and I don’t think people would be so quick to say turn the camera off. I’ve done a few calls on video with my toddler sitting in my lap and would do the same if I were breastfeeding right now.
As a woman, I think it’s unprofessional with the camera on—just as I would find it unprofessional if a colleague were eating on camera during a call. If you need to feed your child or eat during a call, turn the damn camera off.
Female here, but that’s a big no. Would a woman seriously sit in the middle of an in-person meeting in a conference room and breastfeed their baby? It’s unprofessional. Just turn the camera off
Exactly just turn the camera off. If anyone asks she could tell them she was breast feeding.
Was she cute? If so, okay cause you might get a nip slip.
The fuck is with the sexualization in this post?! Get over yourself, bud. Boobs are not for your pleasure.
I think you should do what you need to do, but just turn the camera off? Because if we all were back in the office it would be strange to jump in front of people at work. I don’t think this is contradictory, but I’m all for pumping in public but I think work is def different.
Fully support nursing in public and people handling personal life while WFH in a pandemic.
If something like this came up for me (or my older children need attention for something), I would say (or type in chat if I’m not speaking), excuse me, I’ve got children being children here so I’m going to turn my camera off while I handle, but will still be fully engaged.
Why not just turn the video off and say you are having bandwidth issues?
The webcam should be off.
Totally fine to breastfeed. Babies don’t respect schedules and diaries, sometimes they just need to be fed! But I would probably angle the camera to be discreet about it, same as I would breastfeed in a cafe but probably find a quiet table at the back rather than sitting in the window...
If you have to keep the cam on, then I think it’s perfectly acceptable. But, if having it off is acceptable, then I’d opt for turning it off until the baby is done. Like I won’t eat on cam myself, and if people are watching me eat but not eating themselves, I feel awkward. I just think of it in that way.
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With a cover up yay, bare breasted nay.
Agreed, reasonable
Nay, just turn webcam off
There’s nothing wrong with breastfeeding but if you’re on a work related conference call, you shouldn’t be doing other things aside from being part of the call. You wouldn’t normally feed your kids when you’re on a conference call, doesn’t matter if it’s with a breast, bottle or spoon. Not sure if there’s another perspective or additional details but that’s my initial thought.
Even due to unprecedented times, you try to keep divisions of time and space between personal and professional. If you think it’s ok or willingly bring your kids and all other non work stuff into the picture then you are forgoing that division of work life balance and space. That means you’re ok with your manager working with you at 9pm for a meeting or whatever. Again, it won’t be easy or at times possible due to these circumstances but I think it’s fair to say you have to try to keep that balance if that is what you want.
Remember how some people use to judge a barking dog on phone only conference calls, this is just the same but with visuals. Disruptions of the senses.
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Was it an internal team regroup or was she presenting to C suite? Would it be fine for people to be wearing casual clothing or was it a meeting that required formal business attire, make up etc? If the former in either case, there shouldn’t be any issue.
I’m a female and very liberal. But I do think certain intimate acts deserve privacy. If you’re comfortable with it personally, check in with others to see if they’re okay with being presented with it. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just courteous to check in with others, especially in a multicultural setting.
Breastfeeding mother of 3 here and I don’t think it is appropriate to do that on a work zoom call with camera on. Definitely not the same as your kid running around in the background of a call.
I mean turn your video off?
Moms gotta mom. Does the camera need to be on, no. Does a mom need to feed her baby yes. Can you just deal with it and move on, yes. Are working moms overtaxed, I believe so. People have to deal with lots of other annoyances during calls, man up and recognize that it isn’t a big deal unless you make a deal out of it
To each their own- my almost 14 month old is still being nursed. Would I BF on a zoom nope but more power to her.
Lol a HUGE NAY....but this is hilarious
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I have a few co-workers who turn off their video telling us they need to feed the baby which I feel totally okay with! They usually turn back on right after and sometimes we get a cute baby wave while Mom is talking. We have a few that are pretty little and will quietly sit in calls with Mom after feeding when the camera comes back on. We are a mostly female company though so this is very normalized where I work.