Best profile picture rule

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

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

They're not trying to be nice, they are being nice about it >:3
- 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
Pretty sure the whole thing is satire and that line is supposed to make it obvious, but I'm just doing me
Weird, that line made me cringe and seems super unprofessional

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.

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.
- 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.
- I'd be weirded out they are running Windows. I no longer trust the technical opinion of anyone that runs that joke of an OS.
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...
- 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.
Am I into this stuff at all, no

Is that freaking hilarious? Yes

Ahahahaha
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.

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.

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.
- Shared 6mo ago where someone claimed it legit by a well-known guy who’s epic so they could pull it off IIRC
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?
- Cuuuute!
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!
- Why would you get any grief for a profile picture with a proper business suit?
- It's like getting mad at a male programmer for having a beard, even the business majors know it's part of the professional attire.
- I had a few dozen fumos on my desk for several months to no ill complaint.
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.
I've used various pirate pfps in some apps at work

Kinda based ngl

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.
- They know, they just don't want other companies to know. They might steal the cat girls
- Once Upon a Time, This Tech Company Actively Recruited Furries (Vice.com)
  
  Months earlier, recruiter Cindy Lee Smith noticed a trend in the resumes coming across her desk at Taos. Why were many job candidates listing “anthropomorphism” under their hobbies?
  
  As Christine Hyung-Oak Lee tells it—recalling her time as a junior recruiter under Smith—hitting upon the tech-talent goldmine of furrydom was something like an epiphany. “I remember her running out of her office into my cubicle, and she said, ‘Christine, we gotta get on these furries.’”
  
  And this was way back in 1996.

Getting this email is career goals

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.

👀 what is the file name??
- Maybe we should guess and the User could let us know when we are on the right track if they are still reading this thread.
  
  Scrotum chugger is my guess.
- nutglutton.xlsx
- It's really obvious if I say it, and I don't want to connect her or myself to any online account.
  
  Hmm, let me see if I can let you know (if you already know) that you know it. It was her nickname, then similar to a name of a casino.

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

I had a shirtless incident working at a hardware shop in my early 20s. I was given my work uniform, but I didn't see any changing room, so I just popped into an empty office to change. It was just a shirt - a 10 second job - no problem. Ripping of my shirt, I heard shouting from the neighbouring office from my new (female) boss: "we have about 3 active cameras in that office, just thought you might want to know."

In panic I quickly had to decide between apologizing, becoming embarrased or running away. My smart ass brain landed on shouting back "if you see anything you like, speak up!"

I was very that lucky she just found it funny.
- I have dreams where I end up shirtless (or worse) at various places I've worked in the past pretty often. I don't think being naked in public would even really bother me anymore because of that. Other than the criminal charges of course.

Literally 1984

Share the pic 🥺

I always had my day brightened at an old job by emails from this guy in Master Data. His email signature was just MC Hammer lyrics disguised as Bible verses, something like Hammerlonious, 4:16-24. Nobody ever asked him to change it or gave him grief about it, since rather than implement something normal like SAP, the company had decided to roll their own in-house ERP system, and he was the only one who actually knew how a good chunk of it worked.

meanwhile in academia I am looking at some random profile pictures: monkey, duck, game logo, monkey, a pub sign which has the guy's name, sloth, a weird flightless bird, couple cartoon characters including alien/kermit. only a couple smart casual profile pics which are actually external collaborators

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

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).

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

But business attire is so ~~droll~~ dull. Even in the Guy Kawasaki was differentiating between the ties (business suits) and t-shirts (techs so skilled that their casual attire was tolerated.

Droll means humorous, did you mean to write dull or do you have a different point I am not understanding.
- No I meant dull, or drab. Fixed.

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

Do teams photos even show to external orgs?

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

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
- 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.

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

Report that to HR a week ago