Does your team have "bad internet guy"?
Posted by Brief-Knowledge-629@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 176 comments
Every team has that person who can't have their camera on during meetings, can't pair program, and is generally unreliable and hard to reach due to constantly having connection issues.
I'm not talking about the scam where someone offshore pretends to be an American. They live in a first world country, in the year 2025, and work for a tech company and somehow still use Netzero or whatever. They get extremely offended if you suggest they use some of their 200k salary to upgrade their 56k AOL internet
ThatMizK@reddit
Yeah, it's me. The internet works fine, I just don't want to have my camera on or pair program, and I'm generally unreliable because I hate having to work.
papillon-and-on@reddit
So it's true then! Bad Internet Guy doesn't actually have bad internet. Just a bad attitude š
scottishkiwi-dan@reddit
your CEO doesn't read your reddit comments my guy
SituationSoap@reddit
This sub, earlier this week: nobody should ever have to do status meetings. The most important thing is that everyone feels a sense of togetherness as a team, that's how we'll all get the best work done.
This sub, now: if you even hint at the idea that you should have any form of social connection to your team, you're a bootlicker who's just trying to suck up to the CEO.
I really wish the people who seem to hate this career so much would go find a different one.
tehfrod@reddit
It's almost as if those are opinions held by different people rather than a sub hive mind.
SituationSoap@reddit
Or, and hear me out: this sub is peopled mostly by young, inexperienced, subpar developers who hold a bunch of conflicting opinions that mostly just amount to "I shouldn't ever be held accountable for anything because that makes me feel bad."
This sub has turned into "CS Career Questions, but 3 years older" and the additional time hasn't imparted any wisdom.
tehfrod@reddit
Cool, cool.
Vote with your feet.
SituationSoap@reddit
Pretty rapidly moving in that direction.
But hey, saying "just leave" to one of the people who was part of the day 1 crowd of this sub and helped to get it off the ground sure is a fun response. Definitely makes it feel like the community is moving in a good direction.
Sworn@reddit
I think it's pretty inevitable that the miserable asocial people have more time available to spend commenting online than well-adjusted individuals, lots of communities end up being cesspools.
Sworn@reddit
Not everyone likes to work with asocial boring people, my guy. I mean, I'm not the most extroverted person in the world, but the people that never have their camera on, join meetings as late as possible to avoid the pre-meeting chats, and never attend socials just aren't fun to work with.Ā
They'd have to be excellent engineers to make up for being terriby bland colleagues.
AaronBonBarron@reddit
Get some friends outside of work, coworkers are under no obligation to be your social circle.
3legdog@reddit
Something tells me you work at a "We are all family" company.
ILoveAMp@reddit
Damn I really missed out on that riveting conversation about the current weather
DeerEnvironmental432@reddit
Your colleagues arent there for your enjoyment they are there to do a job.
mswezey@reddit
Or... Those pre meeting chats are bland and we're avoiding the fake PC chats that people are forced to have because no one feels like speaking their mind
alex_co@reddit
Itās almost like everyone views work differently.
Sky_Zaddy@reddit
Lolol
lordbrocktree1@reddit
I just refuse to put my camera on. Given Iām rated the top person at my level in our company, no one says shit to me. And the people the levels above want me to work on their projects/have my team support them, so they donāt try to force me to do anything.
I work the way I want to. In exchange, I make them a lot of money, build projects that get key people promoted, and have trained almost all of our top performers at the entry/mid level in our department.
trojan_soldier@reddit
Weird hill to die on.
lordbrocktree1@reddit
Itās not a big part of our company culture so anyone asking for cameras is just personal preference/trying to throw their weight around.
Also, I find having my camera on extremely distracting and drops productivity
trojan_soldier@reddit
Understandable. I also do not turn on the camera if I am not ready. Also not a big part of my company's culture.
I do turn it on when I'm ready though. There are many reasons why, but mostly just to hold myself accountable. My response and behavior should stay consistent whether I'm remote or in-person.
If my productivity drops because people see me, I would be asking myself, what is going on with me?
If my camera is on and my coworkers perceive it as a friendly gesture and make them feel comfortable interacting with a person, that's a win for everyone. So there might be more positives overall with the camera on.
lordbrocktree1@reddit
My productivity also drops in office. Why? Because I can multitask at home with multiple screens, I donāt feel antisocial when I pull up documentation mid conversation, I can have multiple screens rather than meeting in the conference room with just a laptop.
Also, remote and no camera evens the playing field as there is evidence to support that it reduces discrimination due to age, gender, and race. As those attributes are less forefront without a camera on.
So sure there are maybe pros to both in which case everyone should be able to do whatever makes them work best and most comfortable. Almost like we are adults and know how to workin the way that is best for us and most productive for the company.
Shazvox@reddit
So do you just randomly stay still and pretend the connection is broken or do you have some tool to cause interference or are you just randomly shutting off wifi?
LondonPilot@reddit
I hope this link works internationally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNr-7KhWJdg
Sky_Zaddy@reddit
Their out of pocket, but their right.
MCFRESH01@reddit
No one on my team turns their camera on and Iām all for it
shieldy_guy@reddit
my man
mswezey@reddit
One of us! One of us!
Any_Rip_388@reddit
Lmao
Beneficial_Wolf3771@reddit
Didnāt realize gigachad was a software guy
yen223@reddit
"First world country" and "good internet" are not synonymous
ButWhatIfPotato@reddit
I don't live there now but it was just unbelievable how utter shite internet (both personal and business) was in central London.
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
thats your presonal problem though. has nothing to do with the country as a whole.
KellyShepardRepublic@reddit
A major city not having good internet is a problem. Go to a rural area and they will say that is the problem too. In reality it is the isp being the problem cause they have the money and refuse to upgrade.
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
thats just his building. not all of the city.
ButWhatIfPotato@reddit
Nope, it was the vast majority of the city.
TheScapeQuest@reddit
The UK in general is just very old, so to get good internet means very disruptive works on old roads.
That and the general underinvestment in infrastructure over the last few decades.
bwainfweeze@reddit
Boston has shit plumbing because it didnāt burn down after good plumbing was invented. All the early movers have worse internet than the people who came a little late to the party.
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
yes they are. need to move from bumfuck,wyoming if you want a remote job. level of entitlement is insane when qualified ppl are out there dying for a job.
KellyShepardRepublic@reddit
Ignorance. I live in a city and we have bad internet cause of politics of the city. Living in ābumfuck, Wyomingā isnāt the only way to have bad internet. There are 50 states and each those have their local governments which can slow down all progress.
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
which city ? maybe ppl who live there don't care about high speed internet, which is totally fine. move from that city if you want a remote job.
rco8786@reddit
I canāt work with camera off people. Itās hard enough to communicate remotely as is. We need to utilize every avenue for closing the gap between two remote workers. Getting facial expressions, body language, etc is invaluable. And even psychologically people will implicitly dehumanize you a bit when youāre just a talking black box.Ā
RobYaLunch@reddit
The status of the camera is maybe the last thing I care about in terms of remote communication abilities. I've never once had someone have their camera on and thought, "Them being on video really improved this interaction", unless it's a one on one that isn't related to the work or if there are several people in a conference room
rco8786@reddit
Same! But Iāve had LOTS of times where Iām staring at a black box wishing I could see there person I was talking to.
Itās not just me. This is well documented in the sociology field.Ā
AaronBonBarron@reddit
Sounds like a skill issue. It's not gossip over a coffee date, what do you need non-verbal cues for? Just communicate clearly and directly.
rco8786@reddit
Itās a well documented sociological issue. Nothing to do with skill. People communicate better when they can see each other. Full stop.Ā
NotoriousDesktop@reddit
I hate the cameras on, rather than focusing on the task at hand or thinking about what you're saying, I have to pretend to want to look at you
Even better scrap the call and just send it to me in a text format, at least then its documented too
rco8786@reddit
I just find it downright impossible to actually collaborate with someone like that.Ā
AffectionateCard3530@reddit
Iām the opposite. I rely on body language/facial expressions to help with communication, and cameras help with that. Not for every meeting, but most.
tjsr@reddit
You won't get nay love for cameras being on in this sub. I've heard so much crazy bending over backwards from it here, it's not a conversation I'm going to bother with again.
Basically as you've said: I want to see a person's facial expressions and that they're actually paying attention when I talk to them.
dVicer@reddit
I work remotely and live in a rural community, part of the official job requirement is that I have reliable internet access. That means I can't use a slow Internet as an excuse or they can let me go. It's up to me to manage. If my Internet connection couldn't handle Zoom, they could reasonably fire me, that's built into the requirement, and I do believe that's reasonable.
I always have two backups. Before it was my cellular based internet followed by going to a public workspace an hour away. Then I got star link and the cellular Internet became my backup. Then they delivered fiber, now star link is my backup and I keep the cellular modem just in case. There are a few other Internet options too. We also ose power once a month or so, so I keep my work system on an UPS and recently got a backup generator.
It's not as easy as being in the city where all that is reliable, but it's my choice to live here, so it's my burden to make it work. If I couldn't, and wanted to stay reasonably employed, I would expect to have to move closer to a city.
I have zero sympathy or empathy for the bad Internet guy. There are options. They're making excuses.
_Personage@reddit
Rural community + having fiber. What.
My city outskirts ass is envious as I have shitty internet and no actual excuse for it.
Budget-Government-88@reddit
Yeah, if you have fiber no way it's rural. Suburban, yes
dVicer@reddit
False. As I said and has been said elsewhere, there have been major efforts at different government levels to provide grants to make this happen.
It's not everywhere. It's not even everywhere here. Like I have fiber, but they can't deliver it to my neighbors ranch that borders my property yet.
Budget-Government-88@reddit
All Iām reading is you asserting my point
Big__If_True@reddit
There are rural areas with fiber now, itās not 2015 anymore
Budget-Government-88@reddit
Show me them then.
I live in a farm town in a metro county right outside of Baltimore and don't even have access to fiber.
iupuiclubs@reddit
I had fiber in Beattyville, Kentucky. Population 2000. No Walmart, no McDonald's, no starbucks.
Literally had faster internet there than my previous connection in a metro city lol.
Budget-Government-88@reddit
That's so funny, i do see Verizon & AT&T both other fiber there starting at $55
My town has \~6500 people, and I'm currently paying about $90 for 500mbps/40mbps through Xfinity
knox_technophile@reddit
A lot of rural ISPs got grants for fiber. ISPs in the city can presumably afford it themselves since they have a much denser customer base.
dVicer@reddit
Yep, the rural grants are exactly what made it happen in my case. There were federal, state, and local initiatives that made it happen. It is quite wild.
drakgremlin@reddit
ISPs in cities can afford it.Ā They chose profit with structured trusts to prevent competition.
I have two Internet options.Ā Cable atĀ 1Gbps and DSL at 40Mbps.Ā Same price.Ā There are two over 10Mbps so the government doesn't care.Ā More of you count the resellers of either service.
lunacraz@reddit
sounds p communist to me. take it away!
_Personage@reddit
Some rural communities went all in on municipal fiber as well. Namely, the one I lived in, right after I left. :(
lokaaarrr@reddit
The reason rural communities have shitty internet is not geographic, itās political
CardboardJ@reddit
Rural communities didn't get any internet until after fiberĀ the cheapest option to pull.
Artistic-Jello3986@reddit
They can fire me at any time for literally any/no reason. Iām not going out of my way to be their workhorseā¦ you do good work, congrats your reward is more work. Now I just focus on impact vs time spent at computer bullshitting at the virtual water cooler
KellyShepardRepublic@reddit
I live in the city and we donāt even have fiber. Though the reason is politics cause the areas around the city that are unincorporated county have fiber since they didnāt sign a monopoly agreement like the city. Cause of that, they charge 2x the price as people who have fiber.
paneq@reddit
Same vibe man. I had two LTEs then Starlink plus LTE backup and now fiber plus backup. I guess I take my work seriously since we are all remote.
jessepence@reddit
Yeah. They're just bad coworkers who think they're better than everyone else so they don't have to contribute as much. Period.
Snipercide@reddit
Nope, we don't have that issue. People turn their cameras off now and then, but no one's constantly hiding behind a bad connection. I can imagine it happens though.
In a past role, I never had my camera on, and it felt weird and disconnected. But I never joined as a remote worker. - Now I always have it on. It helps you stay visible, builds trust, and influence.
At my current job, if someone were always off-camera, we'd probably ask them to turn it on for at least 70% of the meetings. It would be like phoning into a meeting that's taking place in the room next door instead of actually attending the meeting. Acceptable now and again, but not every time.
Bad internet? That's the responsibility of the employee. Remote work comes with the expectation that you can actually work remotely. Especially as a developer, you're downloading dependencies, pushing code, sharing files. If your connection can't handle low-res video, it probably can't handle your actual job either.
It's no different than commuting to an office. If you can't get there, that's on you. Same thing with having reliable internet when you work remotely.
davy_jones_locket@reddit
I pay for 1 GB of fiber data. Sometimes I can only get 200-300 Mbps.Ā
Google Meet in Chrome browser kills my computer when there's more than 4 people in a hangout.Ā
Sometimes people live in internet dead zones. Improving broadband nationwide in the US isnt high on the current administration's list.Ā
It happens.Ā
chaitanyathengdi@reddit
You will burp and consume 1GB on fiber.
What kind of plan is that?
davy_jones_locket@reddit
ATT Fiber. Locally it's not super great, but it's my only fiber option because Google fiber hasn't come out to my side of town.
Speed tests doesnt get up to half that during the day sometimes. I also live in a new neighborhood and road construction crews have disrupted the fiber lines a couple times in the same time span.
chaitanyathengdi@reddit
That speed is a lie then. They just slap "upto" on the label and boom, no need to provide full speed!
DimosAvergis@reddit
He probably means 1Gbps and not a 1GB data cap.
chaitanyathengdi@reddit
Ah.
webdevop@reddit
My 7-year-olds Chromebook can handle a bigger audience.
What specs are you on? 128 MB DDR1?
davy_jones_locket@reddit
Previous employer, but I believe it was a MBP 2017 with touchbar and touch ID sensor, Intel chip. I'd have to kill everything running (Slack, Docker, VS Code were always running on my machine) just to join a Google Meet.
Slack Huddles were better. Zoom was the best
webdevop@reddit
Oh right. I remember that one. It was the first one with the touch bar right? I think it had heating issues and I remember it'd almost exploded when I started my Vue dev server.
mswezey@reddit
This doesn't add up
LastSummerGT@reddit
Getting 200 Mbps on a gig line wonāt cause video call issues though? The call only needs like 5 to stream?
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
they should fire these ppl if they can't do their jobs
kyconny@reddit
Check hardware acceleration is working for VP9, I find meets (suspiciously) only plays nice in WebKit browsers.
FitzwilliamTDarcy@reddit
Yeah the paying for gig and getting 300 at the modem is disgusting. Thatās Spectrum for me. Trying to get FIOS in the building.
vantasmer@reddit
HughesNet is the biggest pain to use. We had some clients at previous gig that only had that as their service provider and doing anything that required even a remotely stable connection caused major headaches. And of course HughesNet support is abismal just like their service. I wonder if theyāre stepping it up not that starlink is directly competing with themĀ
Budget-Government-88@reddit
Uh, man
There are tons of places in the U.S. which have no access to fiber, even some which only have DSL, Wireless home internet (think satellite but uses cell towers), or satellite.
...............
lokaaarrr@reddit
Should you really take a full remote job that uses zoom at lot of you live in these places?
Budget-Government-88@reddit
That's really more a question for the hiring manager
lokaaarrr@reddit
I agree, I think when taking on full remote engineers the firm needs to set really clear expectations. IMO, including having the camera on for 1:1 and small group meetings where you are participating (for big meetings I don't think it matters, but most big meetings should not be happening anyway).
AaronBonBarron@reddit
Who the hell turns their camera on for meetings?
AlternativeHistorian@reddit
I've been this guy. More so that I couldn't screen share and do a meeting at the same time for more than about 5 minutes.
It wasn't an internet issue.
My laptop (company provided/mandated model) would just overheat (god forbid you want to run CPU and GPU at the same time, the nerve) and start thermal/power throttling until the whole system locked up for \~30 seconds and cooled down, and now it's in a loop of locking up for \~30 seconds of every 60 seconds. Was eventually able to hit upon some combination of settings that kept things mostly working in meetings but holy shit I hated that laptop.
RB5009@reddit
I never turn on my camera and avoid pair programming. I'm much better and faster on my own. I see no valid reason to turn on my camera. Stop trying to micromanage people.
PicklesAndCoorslight@reddit
Wow, I'd hate to be on camera and would not like pair programming, but I don't work remotely.
magical_midget@reddit
Do we work at the same company?
āOh downloading this 500mb file will take me 4 hoursā
āIt is uploading, probably have to check tonorrow if it finishedā
But at least he is good at the job, actually bafling he refuses to fix the internet when he is very active fixing things that bother him.
ormarek@reddit
Iām the guy š
ElephantWithBlueEyes@reddit
At first i thought you're talking about someone who's connection is just poor and he always interrupts during meetings.
But i'd second the idea guy is just avoiding all that. Or actually works multiple jobs. Pick one reason.
Mind your business if that doesn't affect you.
Izacus@reddit
Having lying dead weight in your company always affects you.
abeuscher@reddit
Not exactly the same but when I managed a team in India, I had one kid who I swear worked in the middle of a busy traffic intersection. Great kid and an excellent performer. I believe he lived with 10 members of his family in a pretty small place. Super upbeat and very decent React programmer. But man when he tried to talk you couldn't hear him over the car horns and diesel engine noise.
In my experience the bad connection person is always in middle or upper management. And they always forget to mute themselves while they are troubleshooting.
Smile-Nod@reddit
They have a second job.
HQxMnbS@reddit
āThe market is horribleā yet everyone is working 2 jobs!
Smile-Nod@reddit
If the job market is so bad and this guy isnāt meeting expectations why havenāt they replaced this guy with a 10xer layoff from FAANG?
BloodhoundGang@reddit
Because the people laid off from FAANG wonāt accept a shitty salary
Smile-Nod@reddit
Exactly right. Over-employment is an arbitrage opportunity where you work two low demand jobs to get the salary of one.
The āhorrible job marketā is not equally horrible at all levels for every salary tier.
The unemployment rate for software devs is lower than the already historically low unemployment rate.
upsidedownshaggy@reddit
Don't you know? That's why the market is so hard! Everyone actually has three jobs! /s
local-person-nc@reddit
It's hilarious how that's become the scape goat now. Bad programmer in any way? Oh must be a second job. People have been using shitty excusing for a long time.
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
but its true. i know plenty ppl who still have second jobs.
local-person-nc@reddit
Do you now? They just freely admit it at your work? š¤”
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
no i know them personally. neighbors and friends. why are you so butthurt anyways?
local-person-nc@reddit
š the overemployed neighborhood. I think it's hilarious how far to see how much I can dig someone into a lie. This is a new low thanks š
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
you sound jealous
local-person-nc@reddit
Ah I see you think you're overemployed too. Doesn't talking about it in other subs violate the rules? You sound like a dunce more and more everytime you open your mouth
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
I was overemployed yes in a govt contract that got terminated after doge. what rules are you talking about?
not sure why you are so butthurt that ppl have more than 1 job.
Scowlface@reddit
I mean head over to /r/overemployed. Itās not a zero percent chance.
local-person-nc@reddit
That sub is a cesspool of wallstreetbet morons trying to one up each other. I have 6 jobs and make 1 million a year!!! š Money makes people believe the dumbest shit.
NoCardio_@reddit
It's the tech version of "everyone who disagrees with me is a russian bot".
Economy-Owl-5720@reddit
Yeah for their second job
DisneyLegalTeam@reddit
Oh please. Whatās far more likely here?
Second job? Or lazy/stoned/incompetent/hungover/uninterested?
fear_the_future@reddit
That's everyone in Germany. First world cost of living but worse internet than India.
eyluthr@reddit
well I can have my camera on, I chose not to
poopycakes@reddit
One of my guys hit me with "ah my battery died I'll circle back with you later". I'm like bro you work from home just plug your laptop in I don't understandĀ
chaitanyathengdi@reddit
Who the hell has 56k these days anyway?!
pragmatica@reddit
Who the fuckmwantsvto pair program?
The worst part of schoolm( group assignments) brought into the workplace.
AffectionateCard3530@reddit
Iāve learned a lot by pair programming with other developers on complex modules. Itās just another tool for learning
abe_mussa@reddit
I quite like pairing here and there
But isnāt all work a group assignment? Always need to be collaborating with others either way. E.g - we define okrs together - analysts figure out where we can make improvements - delivery requires multiple disciplines e.g (while Iām not an ML engineer, I do have input to API design for their services) - we work together to measure the impact weāve made to the system
If youāre not a fan of group assignments, Iād think pair programming would be the least of your worries
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
i do sometimes. much easier to get upto speed on a new codebase if i am pair programming with someone already familiar with codebase.
only impostors think its always a bad idea.
MagnetoManectric@reddit
IDK. We're not all built the same. I like pair programming. I like having someone to bounce ideas off and it keeps me on task.
It prevents rabbit-holing and keeps tasks on course. I don't always like to pair everyday, but really, if I'm going to be working on boring backend services, I prefer having someone to natter with as we do it. Working remotely can be very disconnecting/isolating otherwise.
den_eimai_apo_edo@reddit
Op seems to have removed pair programming from their post lol
opx22@reddit
Itās useful if someone is struggling with something. I dont know what is meant by pair programming (like quick help vs literally spending all day watching someone code) but the times Iāve had to do it to help someone, I never minded it too much
KaleAshamed9702@reddit
I feel like thereās some new generation of programmers who think itās just grand to get half the amount of work done by two programmers for however long they are āpairingā.
Shazvox@reddit
How else can I have someone look over my shoulder and marvel at my genious fuckups?
AffectionateCard3530@reddit
Never had someone like that on my team. But I briefly dated someone like that ā they were a chronic pothead, and would avoid as many meetings as possible because they were high.
blokelahoman@reddit
Are they getting the work done?
Nofanta@reddit
Pair programming is a total joke.
DapperCam@reddit
Iām that guy, but itās because Spectrum sucks and I donāt have any other options.
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
you have option to move. why did you get a remote job then.
DapperCam@reddit
Lol, what? Supposedly I have āhigh speed internetā, that service just isnāt delivered to me because telecoms suck. Who is to say I donāt move to another house with āhigh speed internetā and experience the same problem.
Electrical-Ask847@reddit
maybe check before you move?
DapperCam@reddit
Some people with bad internet are
upsidedownshaggy@reddit
Spectrum truly is ass. I stupidly paid for their 1Gig package when I first moved out on my own because there wasn't any fiber companies there yet. The fastest speeds I ever saw were like 300 down and 50 up at 3am on a Sunday while I was deploying an app for work.
gino_codes_stuff@reddit
At least you got 50 up. I don't get above 5! I often have to deploy a docker image for dev testing and the first time of the day takes like 30 minutes and often times out. But it's cool - they told me they were trying to up everyone's upload speed. Which I'm sure is right around the corner.
kyriosity-at-github@reddit
Bruh i do three remote jobs and you will find out with camera.
ODaysForDays@reddit
It's sorta me. I have gigabit I'm on cam and such. But my power is eternally going out because I live in Houston. In the last month and a half 4/7 days every week have had a >50% chance of thunderstorms.
It's to the point I have 8 12.8v 100Ah batteries and a 4.5kw inverter to run a portable AC and keep shit charged.
Suitable_Speaker2165@reddit
I'm surprised that 'bad internet guy' hasn't turned into 'guy hit with the RTO' or 'guy that got laid off for being terrible'
engineered_academic@reddit
I was forced to live in bumfuck middle of nowhere for a while taking care of my aging parents. The internet you could get there was abysmal. My parents refused to pay more to upgrade their internet. I was forced to call in via cell phone to get in. I had a coworker who had to resign because his dad needs EOL care and he lives in a rural area of where internet is not available.
Its not always someone's second job. Focus on yourself and not what other people are doing.
For the record I also hate having my camera on especially when meetings are being recorded.
Brief-Knowledge-629@reddit (OP)
My parents wouldn't upgrade their internet! There is no other way to solve this problem guess I'm stuck
engineered_academic@reddit
Correction: Maybe they just don't want to deal with your toxic ass. Jesus.
There was no way to solve this problem. The cable company wouldn't provide separate service at a residence since I wasn't the legal owner. Starlink was not an option at the time. Cell service was still only available at 3G and not enough for stable videconferencing. Tell me, oh wise and powerful developer, what else could I have done to solve this issue?
KellyShepardRepublic@reddit
A lot of people are just ignorant and got handed a good hand in life and canāt understand why no one else has soft hands and soft attitude like them.
iFilmUBangingMyWife@reddit
we have a few "i don't do shit guys" who are masters of finding blockers and who's standup updates always leave me scratching my head
RandyHoward@reddit
I'm the guy that never has his camera on, but that's primarily because I work remote and my team is in another country - meetings are at 3am in my timezone, nobody needs to see what I look like at 3am.
KellyShepardRepublic@reddit
I live in a city and our upload speed is capped at 100 mbps and you are lucky if you get half of that. If I turn on my camera, everything else slows down. One day we will have good internet after the city approved but it took a few years and Google to do it.
I would gladly pay some of my salary for better internet but I actually already pay the top price cause there are no competitors yet.
ProfBeaker@reddit
I mean some internet providers just suck. Few years back I lived in fairly centrally to a major city, but in that particular area the only option was DSL, and the phone company refused to upgrade the CO equipment. So I could get like 50 down and 768 Kbps (not a typo) up. Uploading anything would choke it so hard that you couldn't download anymore, because the requests and acks couldn't get out.
grizwako@reddit
200k salary?
Yeah, no excuse with that high salary, you get 2 backups for "just in case" with that kind of money, not just for job but also for yourself/family.
I have fiber as main, fallback on different provider via mobile, but both are using same infrastructure to hop towards capital and onwards to larger nodes in Europe and further into the world.
And still, not uncommon to have fiber fully disconnected while there is heavy rain and mobile having bad connectivity.
If somebody lives in poor area in poor country, does not matter it is 1st world, in bunch of locations connectivity is still pretty bad.
bwainfweeze@reddit
You get two Internet connections and you put the family and anything not going through your VPN on one and your work on the other.
Round_Head_6248@reddit
lol those are just US salaries. Nobody else pays that for normal devs.
LuckyPichu@reddit
I use Linux, my camera and headphones do as they please
No_Day655@reddit
They work??
No_Day655@reddit
Not bad internet guy but we have a ābad headsetā guy. Gets really old when I have to chat with him and every sentence with him starts with ācan you hear me nowā or ends with āsorry I didnāt hear you, come again?ā
zman4000@reddit
Iām trying to get out of useless meetings tbh. Used to be a āCertifiedā Agile Coach ,but I donāt wanna go to useless status meetings every day.Ā
bwainfweeze@reddit
There is something to be said for folding laundry during meetings where two people argue about something you donāt give a shit about.
Iāve had one boss who took a poll to see what topics we needed to get through and which people wanted to talk about it. The thing is if only two people cared, you donāt need a fucking meeting for that, with your coworkers sitting around until you make up and kiss. Just take that offline. This isnāt theater.
onehorizonai@reddit
Did you try some ways to streamline your daily standups already?
gino_codes_stuff@reddit
I'm stuck with spectrum and although I get 400 down (even though I'm paying for more..), my upload is capped at 5mbps. Uploading a docker image reminds me of what it was like to wait for the compiler to complete in 30 minutes.
I did have a stint where zoom would restart every couple minutes in meetings for a few weeks. Found it was actually my Google Wi-Fi access points. Switched them out and now at least my video calling is fine. (I would no longer recommend Google Wi-Fi after that).
maximumdownvote@reddit
Yes , we have those now and then, but... Not for very long.
i-think-about-beans@reddit
No but we have ācanāt find the unmute buttonā guys and āmy microphone isnāt workingā guys
apartment-seeker@reddit
no
PMMEBITCOINPLZ@reddit
Iāve been staying off camera a little bit lately because Iām sick and I think Iām starting to look worse. Iāll get on if itās necessary for clients but my coworkers donāt need to watch my deterioration every day.
KaleAshamed9702@reddit
Only scam happening in your example is paying two programmers for one programmer worth of output - get out of here with the no pair programming shame.
ElephantWithBlueEyes@reddit
We have that one guy. But what really bothers me is that daily meetings are longer because of that.
He either can't see what others are screensharing, either can't share his scree. Voice is "dinging", cuts off sometimes. We wait him to reconnect. All these interruptions are annoying.
jgalbraith4@reddit
Could be a North Korean worker as well.
den_eimai_apo_edo@reddit
If a colleague said something along the lines of "you get paid $200k you should pay more for your internet" I would say, in the most professional way possible, to get fucked.
zeocrash@reddit
Well of course I know him, he's me!
kracklinoats@reddit
bteam3r@reddit
On my team, there's also a 3rd option
shinto29@reddit
Kind of yeah, but he is literally in Ukraine. so I think he gets a pass prickly personality aside!
waterkip@reddit
If its zoom or teams I often have issues unless I use my Windows laptop, which I often refuse because Windows sucks.Ā
Jitsu or Google meet works fine.Ā
Grouchy_Warthog_127@reddit
r/overemployed