My manager decided starting Monday, we're having all-day silent zoom meetings- we connect with cameras on and he watches us work. He has control issues & they're getting worse. Any way out of this?

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That is strange... idk if I’d go straight to HR but maybe the manager’s boss and act dumb like, “are all teams doing this?”

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Drop me a line. I’ll help you switch firms.

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Too many people need help right now to put up with this garbage. You want to report him? You can’t fix stupid. Besides, helping an advisor transition right now seems like fun. You know all your clients are at home!

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That is really creepy. Can you run it by HR? Or freeze your frame

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Be a Jennifer, collectively take your laptop to the bathroom

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Omg I heard about Jennifer 😂

Update: I casually dropped this in a conversation with my manager's manager and he got reprimanded fairly immediately (fortunately no one mentioned my name). Spent all of Monday not talking to anyone lol. No zoom calls of any kind. Yesterday I got the green light for an internal move to another team and gave notice in our morning zoom check-in, which he ended fairly abruptly. Turns out another person on our team is also leaving (not a surprise) and apparently said some spicy things to HR, and now our manager is in serious PIP talks with his boss. I'm so glad to be on my way out.

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Dude good for you man. Too many corporate knobs think they can get away with this shit cause people don’t have the balls to call him out. Hopefully he learns he can’t be a corporate minion overlord.

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The amount of naps I’ve taken in the middle of the day since WFH, I wouldn’t last a day with this

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Alarms give me a headache. I even tried the alarm on my fitbit that only vibrates. The rest of the day is ruined.
I tried taking a nap after work at 5, and I ended up disturbing my usual sleep cycle and couldn't wake up on time the next morning!

Lol school style

HR or create a gif virtual background of you sitting in and working, cover the camera and just do whatever you want to do

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The background idea is a very good one actually

I guess we’re all still in grade school

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None of my profs did this in grad school.
Neither did anyone do this even in high school!

Riverside has a good point about running it by HR.

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Call HR hotline right away.

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I thought I had it bad but this is next level micromanaging and totally over the top!! Does your company usually allow WFH? I’d do what someone said above about acting dumb and going to his boss to ask if this is something all teams are doing? Sure if he is busy watching everyone on a screen then he’s not doing much work himself? Is it that productivity has decreased since you all started WFH? How do your other team mates feel about it? You could take collective action and all say you feel this is very unreasonable and feel micromanaged. If you all go at him in unison he’ll be outnumbered and might then realise he’s being ridiculous!!!

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It’s time to walk away and find a different place to work.

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Thanks all. Can't say what company but this issue is specific to my manager who has gone off the rails with all of us wfh. He started with twice daily team stand-ups and now this. I think he's primarily concerned about a few analysts not getting their work done but doesn't know how to address it. I'll def drop this casually in discussions with his manager/other managers and kill this before it can go any further. He has stress management issues and does sometimes make irrational decisions he then needs to walk back. I've been looking to switch teams internally for awhile now and have some things in motion that hopefully won't be halted by this crisis.

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Does the team have issues delivering?

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I’d forget the camera was on and pick my nose or something

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I’d band together to strategize with the rest of your team

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Have you seen those clips online where someone takes a video on their phone of themselves working for a day, and then plays it back in front of the laptop camera the next day? Maybe that could help?😂😂😂

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Internet went down????

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OP needs a sustainable solution lol internet can’t go down daily yet they are able to send and reply to emails. Maybe damage the webcam itself? lol

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