[louthy]

> take meetings while driving as well, though I stopped because it was perceived poorly by others.

The lack of self awareness here is astounding. You’re in control of a two ton bullet, please concentrate on the road. Killing somebody because you’re not paying full attention is not a good look.

[don-code]

I agree with you in regard to paying attention while driving, but the perception issue was actually around "you can't be bothered to be at your desk for meetings, so we perceive you as lazy", not "you're a risk to those around you, so we perceive you as irresponsible".

[fragmede]

Why are you jumping to the worst possible interpretation? Who would you kill? America is full of long stretches of double digit hour drives through cornfields where you're not going to run into anything. At worse you'd hurt yourself. Obviously if you're in a city and there are people, even kids around, and you're not giving driving the attention it needs, you're an asshole. Fuck you. But how about not jumping to the conclusion that OP is an asshole?

[louthy]

> Why are you jumping to the worst possible interpretation? Who would you kill?

The person you didn’t see because you weren’t paying attention to the road. Regardless of how busy or not it is.