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Jonny 290 posted:yall get ready, the quarterly yospos conference call is coming up. the webex will just be goatse, right?
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 14:44 |
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Jonny 290 posted:yall get ready, the quarterly yospos conference call is coming up. UGH, JUST USE THE WEBEX AUDIO GOD drat
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 15:10 |
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use both, garbage quality pstn connection with a 20 year old phone, and then slightly delayed laptop microphone with the setting to play audio back through the speakers turned on.
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 15:21 |
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Thanks Ants posted:use both, garbage quality pstn connection with a 20 year old phone, and then slightly delayed laptop microphone with the setting to play audio back through the speakers turned on. cell phone is worse quality than an old landline due to the more aggressive compression an older cell phone (so it doesn't have dual mics for noise cancelling) outside during a windy day and never mute it
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 15:34 |
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we have a guy in my office that I call wordydev. wordydev has been with us for ages now and he's loving brilliant, great guy to work with. company has worked hard to keep him on hand and rightly so. wordydev has a problem though, in that he's the God King of explainer-land. he starts covering a concept and feels like he has to go way the gently caress down the rabbithole trying to explain to everyone with no regard whatsoever to the need to explain it, or the need that it be understood. room full of business peeps so he can hear what they need doing? he'll start explaining how he'll do it down to the code level while they get bored or wander off to get coffee. this is such an issue that he told me once it was part of his annual performance objectives to try to stop pulling that poo poo. didn't work. the problem is much, much larger when he's not there in person to pick up on the cues that he's going on too long, making conference calls a chore. few people are willing to remote-mute his line when he goes off on one of these tangents, and because he's busy talking, he rarely hears people shouting to tell him to stop, we got it. a few weeks ago, wordydev went to working 100% remote.
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 16:19 |
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Iridium posted:we have a guy in my office that I call wordydev. gently caress, it me
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 16:27 |
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I'm not even in a meeting, but the "WebEx document loader" has made itself the default printer on my work machine regardless of which printer is set as default in the control panel.
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 16:36 |
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Iridium posted:we have a guy in my office that I call wordydev. could be worse, plenty of people out there who do this stuff except they don't even know what they're talking about solution: find someone who he trusts + likes, who will frequently or always be in the same meetings as him. Pre-arrange an obvious signal for him to shut up, like right that second. Your first instinct is going to be some kind of subtle hand motion or something, forget that. Something big and obvious.... but now that I think about it I don't see anything that'll work with him in a quiet room talking into a mic with no one around to come tell him to put a sock in it. In an in-person meeting have the trusted person get up, walk over to him, and put their hand on his shoulder. But remote? Yeah get ready to hear some details
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 18:34 |
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Iridium posted:we have a guy in my office that I call wordydev. the problem is you're not saying it in a language he understands tell him to do breadth first instead of depth first
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 20:36 |
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double ohm seven posted:many moons ago I used to do remote training for our really lovely, really expensive image analysis tool. I have used the koala in so many presentations to great success
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 22:51 |
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:gently caress it, me
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 00:21 |
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who's got two thumbs and a 5 hour call scheduled to end at 6pm tomorrow
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 00:22 |
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indigi posted:there's no worse feeling in the world than knowing you just snitched on yourself. but who keeps porn in "My Pictures," wtf maybe he made them himself???
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 00:40 |
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Agile Vector posted:maybe he made them himself???
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 01:09 |
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Millstone posted:I have used the koala in so many presentations to great success big fan of mr. scruff for audio testing here
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 01:23 |
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hobbesmaster posted:the problem is you're not saying it in a language he understands Lmao
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 01:29 |
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this is a really fun rp thread, i enjoy the excellent writing makes you really feel how awful it would be to have a job where you have to go to online meetings
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 01:41 |
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Stymie posted:this is a really fun rp thread, i enjoy the excellent writing you don't go to online meetings. they come to you!
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 02:01 |
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Agile Vector posted:maybe he made them himself???
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 05:58 |
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maniacdevnull posted:who's got two thumbs and a 5 hour call scheduled to end at 6pm tomorrow
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 09:49 |
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oh boy, a product manager joined the end of iteration demos, guess it's time for this to be his personal conference to discuss whatever
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 15:06 |
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carry on then posted:oh boy, a product manager joined the end of iteration demos, guess it's time for this to be his personal conference to discuss whatever "Send me the agenda so i know what will be discussed" "Hey sorry I know I joined late, but can we start over from first principles? I'm in management and getting up to speed here so let's make this work for my time"
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 15:27 |
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maniacdevnull posted:who's got two thumbs and a 5 hour call scheduled to end at 6pm tomorrow 5 hour call? do they have breaks scheduled in?
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 15:41 |
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indigi posted:5 hour call? do they have breaks scheduled in? lol
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 16:07 |
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maniacdevnull posted:who's got two thumbs and a 5 hour call scheduled to end at 6pm tomorrow What the gently caress
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 17:07 |
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ive weaseled a deal where our project manager does all the calls and i never show up and then when there's something that may involve me coming up he waves me in. i give my two cents, then go back to my office and do real work without telling anyone else on the call.
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# ? Aug 9, 2016 17:11 |
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I once had an eight hour webex type thing with a lunch break built in, it was held overseas so it started at 3:00 am for me gently caress this thread fore minding me
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 06:05 |
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i can only assume that the people who book 8 hour webex calls are the types of people who frequently say "well we have to be seen to be doing something!!!"
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 07:58 |
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indigi posted:5 hour call? do they have breaks scheduled in? They took a 5 minute break that ran for 20mins total due to some technical issue at the site. I enjoyed a silent conference room (not sarcasm, it was so nice after all that)
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 13:38 |
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FrozenVent posted:I once had an eight hour webex type thing with a lunch break built in, it was held overseas so it started at 3:00 am for me decline all meetings before 7am
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 15:00 |
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this call isn't really a clusterfuck but I'm falling asleep uuuuggggghhhh
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 19:34 |
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SO DEMANDING posted:this call isn't really a clusterfuck but I'm falling asleep uuuuggggghhhh Sleep Tight Pupper
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 19:50 |
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SO DEMANDING posted:this call isn't really a clusterfuck but I'm falling asleep uuuuggggghhhh quick, strip a usb cable and shock yourself with it
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 20:26 |
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Cat Face Joe posted:decline all meetings
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 21:00 |
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i survived the call but it ended up being a clusterfuck in terms of not getting a goddamn thing done and running out of time because lol why prepare for anything ever?
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 21:31 |
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sounds like a successful use of video conferencing services provided by $YOURCOMPANYNAMEHERE
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 21:34 |
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whenever i hold a conference call that poo poo is tight. (i'm part of a trianing suborg and we're always trying to whip others into shape and it doesn't work, it never works ebcause we can't fire or discipline people)
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 21:34 |
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duTrieux. posted:whenever i hold a conference call that poo poo is tight. (i'm part of a trianing suborg and we're always trying to whip others into shape and it doesn't work, it never works ebcause we can't fire or discipline people) yeah this call has rotating hosts and a couple manage to actually keep a schedule and keep things in the call moving, the rest are completely loving useless. "ok first on the agenda is this thing...any questions?" *allows call to descend into utter chaos, doesnt speak again until the very end of the call* "ok we'll cover the rest of the items next week"
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 21:38 |
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SO DEMANDING posted:yeah this call has rotating hosts and a couple manage to actually keep a schedule and keep things in the call moving, the rest are completely loving useless. "ok first on the agenda is this thing...any questions?" *allows call to descend into utter chaos, doesnt speak again until the very end of the call* "ok we'll cover the rest of the items next week" lol if you don't start the call that way then just leave for the rest of the duration
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 22:44 |
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Bloody posted:lol if you don't start the call that way then just jack off for the rest of the duration
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# ? Aug 10, 2016 23:07 |