Working From Home

i hadn't even thought of that! i'm on my last roll before i break into the 30-pack i got at costco before panic buying started. one thing that is weird about my current office compared to my last office is how many people seem to poop at work. maybe they're onto something, shifting the TP costs to the office supply budget.

before working from home I did nearly all my pooping at work

Read that as 'shitting the TP costs...'

I have ulcerative colitis and work for the government so god knows how much of the state budget I was blowing on TP before WFH

today in online meetings: is my mic not working properly or is it just situation normal that every time I start to say something someone starts talking over the top of me and nobody responds to anything I say?

I'm going with somewhere between the latter and actually I don't care, fuck all these stupid meetings anyway. I swear we didn't have this many meetings when we were actually, well, meeting

I am so used to doing my bathroom business at work that I have absolutely no concept of how long TP supplies last

envious, as I always breakfast at home and hafta interrupt it for you know

I am so used to doing my bathroom business at work that I have absolutely no concept of how long TP supplies last

most otm post of all

i spent the last year and a half converting our garage into a habitable space with a bathroom and we finally got a sofa in there this week and after one day of working out there away from my family I actually feel like I'm 'working' again after a month. i love my family but they have no boundaries when I'm at home and visible.

akm can I come work in your garage

I have done very little all day

this scenario happens in-office all the time but seems to be much more prevalent via remote

HEY THERE’S A FIRE PUT IT OUT ASAP
Me, a firefighter: ok where is the fire
HANG ON A MINUTE
ok send me details asap so i can take care of it
...
...
hey do you have details
STILL CHECKING, PLEASE WAIT FOR MY INFO
ok
....
(later)

I SEE THAT THE FIRE IS NOT OUT YET, DID I MISS SOMETHING?

i can and am getting all my work done from home, no bother

but i feel like i could spend the rest of my life trying to get the remote desktop window to fit my extended monitor and its still gonna have an inch either side and its destroying my soul minute by minute

I SEE THAT THE FIRE IS NOT OUT YET, DID I MISS SOMETHING?

otm

I have done very little all day

also otm

My (government-issued) laptop has locked down Skype to just text, no phone or video. Now my manager wants us to install Microsoft Teams on our personal laptops/other devices. I assume videoconferencing is on the horizon.

I have one guy in my team who fucks up joining Skype meetings every single time. Today I ended up with an IT guy phoning him and screen sharing to talk him through what buttons to click while the rest of us waited patiently and listened to half of the conversation because IT guy stayed in the Skype unmuted the entire time.

We'll do it all again on Monday.

I shaved my beard into a handlebar mustache for two videoconferences’ worth of comedy value today. Tomorrow everyone just won’t recognize me since I’m now barefaced for the first time in over a year.

WFH is working out better than I thought. Getting an extra hour of sleep due to no commute makes a huge difference.

Y’all got some crazy micromanagers. We’re not really “working from home”, we’re “trying to survive and just keep all the shit we oversee from breaking without actually creating anything useful”

Which is better: Skype, Zoom, or Teams? Asking for an IT Department.

OMG, the TP thing. Reminds me of the times I was so poor I stole TP from work. And that office TP is so thin and brittle, I don't think it lasts as long.

Getting an extra hour of sleep due to no commute makes a huge difference.

Absolutely. I had to get up at 5 this morning because on Thursdays I do laundry before work, but other than that, yeah.

Which is better: Skype, Zoom, or Teams? Asking for an IT Department.

Lots of articles around stating that Zoom is basically spyware and that the company gives access to any cop that asks for it. I have been using Teams the last couple of weeks and don't hate it. We also use WebEx once a week for a two-hour team meeting.

Skype > Teams > Zoom > Webex > Gotomeeting

I think.

In five-ish years of using Skype for everything (IM, presence, voice, and meetings) I had very little trouble.

Webex gives me headaches like two or three times a week. I hate it. I cannot understand why my company has Skype for presence and IM but won't use it for conferencing.

Teams, I believe, is functionally a front-end for a combination of the worst features of SharePoint, Skype, a bad version of wiki, and a bad chat room. I haven't warmed to it but I am pretty sure it can't suck less than webex.

I think I meant can't suck MORE than Webex, sorry

Which is better: Skype, Zoom, or Teams? Asking for an IT Department.

Teams by a long shot. Skype is a wasteland of drops and breakups, Zoom is a security nightmare right now.

Teams is better than any in-house frontend for SharePoint I’ve ever experienced. The discussion board and wiki functions are weak compared to purpose-built stuff but they’re serviceable

Teams is great, super fast & easy to use

Ok Tom + Veg.

I worked at Microsoft exactly when Lync was shading into Skype for Business. Teams was just starting to be a thing when I left; they were shaking out the bugs. Hence my affection for Skype as opposed to Teams. Haven't tried it in a while but I guess I should. True UC in one package may be a distant dream.

Still think WebEx blows dead bears, btw.

Oh yeah WebEx is trash

Also I would bet money somebody actually thought about “what UI color profile makes most folks look OK during a videoconference” and that’s why Teams defaults to warm purple

"Warm purple" sounds like a strain of boutique weed

Which is what I will need to get through my next 37 conference calls

hi im the expert on Teams in my organisation, ama

nb

i was appointed today

what the fuck is teams

crash course welcome because management board is in 8 hours ty x

(you don't really need to tbh, ill bluff it pretty comfortably)

Teams is an app

uh huh

great, great, gimmme three more pieces that good and ill spin an hour and probly a promotion tbh keep it comin

It’s the purple one, with a T. Click on it

killer

a t, got it

right or left click?

the training I start next week = for a high profile client who met with our CEO to ensure we would meet their needs and we've been told there's "no room for error".

bitches...right now IT has 2 hour waits for CHAT SUPPORT and hangs up after 30 minutes on the phone, tickets go unresponded to. so when there's a problem, we have little chance of resolving it the same day. we also can't have people sit with other learners if their computer doesn't work because they're all working at home.

and VPN technology for our partner sites is notoriously spotty for WFH employees, to the point where the person I taught the other day got bumped out of it for two hours and screamed "JESUS CHRIST!" during my training the last time it happened.

there will be error. lots of it. you and the stupid client will have to deal with it.

I might finally get to send a passive aggressive email detailing how little I care. it's been a while.

Click on chat and start a new chat with me, your Teams expert. Congratulations you can now chat.
Click on Teams and start a new conversation. Great. Now click on reply. You’ve discovered how to thread.
Go to calendar. See those meetings? Beautiful.
Go back to teams. Click on wiki. It works like a wiki.
Now start a new thread. Click the paperclip. Attach a file (something family friendly). Say something about the file. Hit send. Go to files. There’s your file!

but can i have your sister emale

The above is an illustration of why teams is both good and also bad not good, because we have some folks (ok, one dude) who are relentless about fucking it up

The extent to which Teams a frontend for SharePoint has to do with the "attach a file" thingy Tom mentions - somewhere there is a Sharepoint site with that file in it. I will never not want to got to _that_ site and see it in a nice normal directory where I can sort by date modified and see the versioning history and enable co-authoring.

Haven't used it much for conferencing so if other folks are ok with it I will give it another try.

ok heres one for ye

what the fuck is onenote *for*?

Dude I don’t know but a lot of my classmates used it last year and afaict it did them no favors except maybe saving on pens and proper notebooks

Even the professional services people we employ just fire up Word to capture meeting minutes etc

I fucking HATE OneNote

we abandoned it shortly after we rolled it out

what is it for? damned if I know

ok thats a quorum, congrats we just cancelled onenote in this entire ministry

while ye have me, what else would ye like me to kill