oh you’re forcing me to use a boomerfied ripoff discord app with dangerously loud default volume settings? great then i’m gonna respond to every question on that call with a comically loud snoring sound. absolutely wild that this is accepted as “industry standard”
mircoSHit can eat my ass and hole and hair
Anyone that likes Teams is objectively a bad person.
i like teams because you can start a meeting with just yourself in it, then set your status to active manually and it never goes to “away” and your computer never goes to sleep
This is the only humane option. I guess I’m privileged at Langley to only need to worry about results.
I have projects that require that I log hours to justify why they’re getting charged what they are, adrenochrome bill, etc. So if I show up late, take a long lunch, or do laundry in the middle of the day it’s kosher because what do they care? The project has a deadline and we’re going to meet it at a certain budget. The trade off is a responsibility for when time gates happen, especially if I missed something I could have seen, especially if I missed it by doing laundry or talking to another client.
Looking busy was the first thing I ever hated in an office. I hated it as much as wishing the clock would hurry up. Squeezing labor out doesn’t even seem like the most efficient use of people. If you guaranteed them the 40hr salary, had clear expectations for the minimum and gave some agency to think about how to make it awesome, you probably get more focused work on every project. They’d get bored and organize, put on music while separating trash and recyclables, suggest a compost bin, and make macros to solve busy work. They’d chill on easy weeks and have the energy and motivation to lock in on hard weeks.
Teams may suck but it’s a lot better than Skype which used to be the standard
I had someone message me on teams “Hi Abracadaniel” then just waited for me to stop what I was doing & respond before sending their actual message.
Definitely ignoring that shit in the future.
I hate this shit
This is just someone allowing for social contact instead of productivity driven messages. Seems ok to me.
I appreciate the sentiment but in context it felt more like an interruption of focus paired with an expectation that I respect that interruption and respond immediately.
your conversations will be truncated and you will like it
