Work - The pros and the cons... - The Bear and Badger

nick_md

davyK wrote:

An awful lot of my work time is spent on Teams calls. Quite often with several people in a 3x3 grid. Feels like being in the opening credits of The Brady Bunch or a guest on Celebrity Squares.

Most Tuesdays I'm usually in meetings from 9.30am to 6pm, with anything from 5 to 30+ people. Other days I'll normally have between 3 and 8 meetings or so. Finding time to do 'work' is the problem, but I guess my work now is being in the meetings so I know what's going on on a wider project basis.

nick_md

Occasionally I have to do a bit in a 200+ person video call. Just have to forget it's that many people and roll with it, otherwise I'd probably clam up :sweating:

Diluted Dante

I'm so glad I dont have to use that shit.

Wookienopants

I enjoy TEAMS. Means I have a legitimate tool for communicating with my colleagues and working collaboratively without having to actually be in the same place or even leave my house.
Happy to use it forever

acemuzzy

I might do a Hackathon on Teams.

My priority will be to integrate the ability to have it make you look like a cat.

LivDiv

We use Slack for calls.
I dont think I've been on a call with more than 3 other people yet.
I really like the company ethos at the place, there's an emphasis on people just getting on with their shit and only being in meetings or email chains if they really need to be.

nick_md

:partycage:

RedDave2

Wookienopants wrote:

I enjoy TEAMS. Means I have a legitimate tool for communicating with my colleagues and working collaboratively without having to actually be in the same place or even leave my house.
Happy to use it forever

I like teams enough. Its not perfect but it works. Would love to move the senior managers chat groups to teams but they want to keep it on whatsapp which is really annoying because im in sevreral whatsapp groups through residents association and daughters activities so im always seeing the notifications even when im off.

GooberTheHat

You should tell them that WhatsApp group messages aren't secure and they should switch to teams to maintain infosec.

RedDave2

GooberTheHat wrote:

You should tell them that WhatsApp group messages aren't secure and they should switch to teams to maintain infosec.

No one gives a toss over the convenience of whatsapp and to be fair, we arent using company phones so i cant force them to install teams. Or signal.

davyK

Teams is really rather good now. As usual MS work on something until it gets very good. It's in the sweet spot right now. No doubt they will overload it with shit as time goes on but for now it's fine. And there's a suite of 3rd party apps that work with it too for things like polls etc. Its integration with the MS stack is excellent too for collab work on docs, spreadsheets etc. It works great with Sharepoint too for sharing content, sidebar chat streams etc.

The app is free and you can use guest access for those without M365 accounts.

Corporately we have to tolerate use of other platforms for meetings. If another org is hosting a meeting and has a corp account for Zoom, webex etc then that's OK but we have been able to enforce the use of Teams for anything we host.

I've used Teams, Zoom, Webex since lockdown. To be honest, Teams is my pick now.

pantyfire

Have they patched in the ability to quote a message in the texty part yet.?
That essential basic functionality in my opinion.

handsofblue

Hate presenting through Teams. Can't see the audience, so nothing to focus on and no idea if my humour lands. For normal meetings it's fine.

I like Zoom for its airbrushing feature, especially for first thing in the morning meetings. If I woke up 5 minutes ago, I'm gonna need some help looking alert. Its background replacements also work better.

Our corporate platform is Google Meets but we use whatever is easiest for who we're meeting with.

Elmlea

Teams is really good now. Hands, I thought Teams most recent update added a better presentation mode if it's using PowerPoint? I'm sure there's a way to specifically share a presentation rather than just share a screen, and it works pretty well.

handsofblue

Maybe, haven't tried it for a while. Will have to next month though so hopefully it's there now.

LivDiv

Tomorrow will be my first paid holiday since 2014.
Feels like I'm cheating the system somehow.

g.man

Heh. Enjoy it mate! I think my last paid holiday was in...

Spoiler:

LivDiv

Haha.
Yeah will do mate.

acemuzzy

g.man wrote:

Heh. Enjoy it mate! I think my last paid holiday was in...

Spoiler:

1989

Read the middle two digits the other way round and still thought it sounded plausible

poprock

We’ve started making plans for returning to the office/studio. Not that I ever want to, but I have to consider that we can’t work remotely forever. It’s fine for us old folks but unfair on people earlier in their careers - you can’t learn the ropes without watching more experienced colleagues work beside you.

Good result: we’re planning permanent hybrid working. Three days a week with everyone in the studio for collaboration, two days a week with everyone working from home for concentration.

Bad result: we’re starting three weeks from now. I don’t wanna.

g.man

Not to worry. I'm sure you'll be snowed-in soon anyhoo.

poprock

Yaasss. Snow days.

cockbeard

Slowly realising he isn't taking about cocaine fuelled weekends

Dark Soldier

Just had second interview, presentation etc.
.
Big curveball halfway through, based my presentation around my previous work which was primarily phone only to be told this company is primarily email and live chat.

Thought on my feet and it fucked half my slides but went as well as it could I think. They openly agreed with a fair few points and the brand manager seemed into some of my ideas.

Let's see anyway.

Yossarian

Most of the people I’ve hired into a majority email-based support role have had most of their experience on the phone. Don’t worry about it too much, the things that they’ll be looking for aren’t likely to be things that are exclusive to email interactions.

Yossarian

Fingers crossed for you!

Dark Soldier

Cheers guv, got the vibe they were wanting something different but always hard to judge.

We shall see, others lined up in the meantime anyway.

Unlikely

Yeah, fingers cross DS. Sounds like you did your best and that's all you can do.

g.man

Aye, best of luck to you Darko!

acemuzzy

I'm not sure I'm ok with "darko" as a diminutive

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