This is the dumbest, most uselessly irrelevant shit I’ve seen since... *checks watch* 15 minutes ago https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-curate-your-zoom-backdrop-and-why-you-should

This woman sounds straight-up awful to work with and needs to mind her fucking business. The entire thing is deranged.

“A glimpse into a student’s high-school home” oh word? I got a lot of glimpses into the stock room at Whole Foods and the corridors of various hospitals

Is this what the boomers call “snark”? “During the meeting, dozens and dozens of dedicated faculty members aligned on my screen like neat rows of 18th-century portraits, complete with props that volunteered clues about each illustrious sitter” shut up, Janine

“So why allow the Zoom shot to present a cartoonish ailurophile instead of a professional scholar?” Why allow your own writing to present a huge fucking bitch

“Why should we care what students see in our homes? Don’t we have more important priorities now? Doesn’t a lived-in home neatly convey our shared humanity and common burdens?”

GREAT QUESTIONS, JANINE

pRoFeSsiOnaLiSm

These two tips together indicate to me that ol’ JB has some grad students trapped in her basement

“But positioning yourself in front of a completely bare white wall during a Zoom meeting is not the neutral background you seek. Instead, it is the death of your humanity.”

Totally normal thing to say about teaching mid-pandemic as tens of thousands of people are dying.

THIS PERSON IS DISORGANIZED AND LACKS AN INTELLECTUAL FILTER

“Humanize a clean workspace with a minimal number of personal or aesthetic objects”

Humanize your space by...removing any indication that you are indeed a human. Got it.

“Believe it or not, students will try to read the spines on your bookshelves.”

Will they? WILL THEY???

Will you try to read the spines on your professors’ bookshelves

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

Hide yo kids, hide yo wine fridge

“Set the camera too [...] low, and you just gained two chins and a shot at playing a troll in the next Peter Jackson film.”

Thanks!!! Because none of us are panicking about covid weight gain and body image when sitting in front of a camera for 10 hours a day!!!!

“With a bit of planning, your choices can look deliberate, reassuring, and academic.”

This has to have been written by a hostage

Wait a minute, is this not the same department with multiple sexual harassment claims against a professor who ALSO kicked a student out of the department so he could say the n-word? And we’re making jokes about...oh my GOD

ICYMI https://twitter.com/mistresssnowphd/status/1284166461573890049?s=21 https://twitter.com/MistressSnowPhD/status/1284166461573890049

I don’t know why this goofy old bird is more concerned with Lamborghinis and fireplaces than teaching asynchronously and helping students cope with the deaths of loved ones and the world as we know it but ima go talk to some bourbon about it, bye