gf’s employer has 4 Christmas parties this week, Monday-Thursday 5-8pm, Accounting staff required to attend and help with setup. They’re not getting paid.
At least it’s during a week when there’s nothing else going on. No family visiting, gift shopping, food prep, etc. Perfect time for an unpaid 60 hour week!
I've worked until midnight the last two nights while everyone else has all but checked out of work. Shit sucks
My company has fully embraced sending out links to videos to discuss new corporate changes. There's no transcription, no nothing. Our brand new CEO just sent an 8min video about changes she's making. I aint watching.
As a kept man I’m doubtful your wife will look favorably on you not watching her video for the household changes / expectations.
We are migrating from Gmail based to Microsoft 365 for everything. Today has been an absolute shit show since they turned everything Google off and no one has been trained on anything for Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint, OneDrive, etc.
We switched to teams for phone calls and got headsets, it sucks so much ass I’m just answering everything in my cellphone. Half tempted to buy a teams compatible desk phone.
It’s legit making me communicate with other people in my company less. So much easier to pick up a regular phone to call then.
100%. Also, it’s a pain in the ass to throw headphones on to just have a conversation. When the phone rings, you either have to scramble to grab headphones and/or connect them, or just answer through speakerphone, which is annoying to those around you.
They are laggy as hell too, at least in my experience. Calls end up having a lot of random pauses or talking over eachother. Annoying. I have some elements of my job where they want calls recorded and it's annoying as shit to use Dialpad.
Teams meeting are hilarious... - 3 people try to talk - Awkward silence for 3 seconds - 3 people try to talk again
We recently went away from regular desk phones to phones through Zoom. Typically when I join a meeting I’ll have zoom call my cell and connect that way, but for actual phone calls we’re supposed to use a headset. I rarely get calls so I’m not going to wear my headset all day just in case, when someone calls by the time I get it all connected the person’s already hung up lol Had my first ever Teams meetings last week and my headset worked for sound but the microphone would not work for whatever reason. Thankfully I was mostly listening but the headset stuff is driving me nuts.
I have this issue... started when I got a new computer a couple months ago.... tried everything - new headset, drivers, etc. Still haven't figured it out. It's absolutely infuriating.
I was going to go get a new headset and try that out. It was weird too because right before I “tested” it and the mic and everything worked, then join the meeting and it won’t work. Thankfully we usually do our meetings via zoom.
Zoom holds on to your mic. I have had that issue where I would do a zoom meeting then the next time I wanted to do teams the mic wouldn’t work. I‘m 90% sure it’s a zoom issue. I would have to repair my AirPods. So instead I just got a separate microphone so now it looks like I have a podcast.
Short of being on the go or being in a spot with bad service I have had nothing but good experiences with teams
Everyone will fucking hate scheduling meetings now that they can schedule over someone else's calendar, something Google calendar at least had a pop-up about previously.
Right, and then schedule a meeting anyway. When I worked at a company that switched to google's "office" products it didn't let you schedule if there was a conflict. It was a nice switch from having people constantly sending calendar updates because someone set a meeting without looking
Yea I have had really good experience with Teams once they updated the platform recently to be less resource dependent. I have had some of the lag issues mentioned but those were exceptions. I wear a head set pretty regularly so it never bothers me and Teams works pretty well with AirPods as well.
Fuck any one who doesn’t take the 30 seconds to find a time where the other parties aren’t booked. It happens every so often for me when someone sends me a meeting invite where I am already booked. I simply decline the meeting and note “already booked at that time…” they usually get the hint. The one thing to consider is I am seeing a ton of people blocking off hour to two hour blocks daily for “focus time” or catch up yet not letting anyone know it’s blocked time that could be moved. I get it, we need that time to catch up, but when I am booking a call for 6 people and half of them have blocked time where I could actually schedule the call, drives me insane.
Not being able to schedule a meeting when one person out of a group may not be able to attend is ridiculous. Some folks block their whole damn calendar up.
Yeah it’s quite common for some people to have a bunch of recurring meetings blocking their calendars, when in reality they sparingly attend those meetings and will easily prioritize your meeting.
The only thing I’ve noticed is when adding people to a Teams invite it shows busy or free really small next to their name. The one thing that confuses me is that we have the ability to access through it on our company portal web based or through the app icon. The web based seems to refresh better with updates while the app takes forever. I see meetings being moved and people not seeing the updates as being confusing soon. I did also like how Google had everything on like one page, where with Microsoft it seems like you have to have both Outlook and Teams open at all times.
It probably has to do more with our ridiculous security requirements but I cannot stand Teams. AirPods? Incompatible. Sony headset? Incompatible. The biggest POS headset sent out by the company? Only thing that works. Also, Authenticator is absolutely terrible.
Just got a new macbook from the company we're merging with. During set up it claimed "We can not see browsing history" Yeah, okay bud. Sure
My AirPods work on my laptop but when I’m at home I just play the sound through my computer speaker. If I’m in a spot where I need to be on the computer and can’t do loudspeaker I just do the audio through my phone with AirPods and mute my computer. Can’t do that if you don’t have a work phone obviously but that has worked for me for years.
I'm not on quite as many calls as probably some posters here, but I usually have a couple meetings each day and always use my work laptop speakers unless I'm listening to music or a podcast.
Teams and other web meeting software don’t work well with AirPods or some other Bluetooth headsets in general. Best bet is connecting through a wireless dongle like Jabra or Poly.
It probably has something to do with our security. Large company in finance/insurance so they have shit locked down. Don't think it's unique though as there are plenty of reddit threads about it. Also, my SO works exclusively with Google suite and it seems lightyears more intuitive and hassle-free.
I loved google mail, calendar, and meet compared to the Outlook/teams I have now, but man was it annoying having half the office fully committed to google sheets and docs and the other half still married to Excel and Word.
Moving from Google which was so easy and had everything in one place to Microsoft which means I have to have outlook and teams open at a minimum is very frustrating.
Collaboration absolutely blows with Microsoft. We had to take a Sharepoint class (god bless our olds) and it might as well have been a programming class. Microsoft products are made for nerds. I have no doubt it can be great for specific applications, but for 95% of businesses Google works better.
Mike compliments Jenny’s shirt. Is this sexual harassment? Mike tells Jenny “Hey! You’re looking sexy today!” Is this sexual harassment?
Isn’t all of google’s stuff web based? Fuck that. Also can’t imagine that god awful spreadsheet program