Satellit3 posted:

i got a new job recently, and last week i had to take an hour long hippa training. why i need hippa training is sort of nebulous in the first place but anyway this 'training' consisted of me sitting alone in a so-called collaboration space, watching a poorly compressed recording of a webx meeting. complete with beeps and boops, interruptions, and the occasional 500% volume blasts from the presenters mic. sweet.

AWWNAW posted:

horse cock realtime filtering

Necc0 posted:

also webex is largely fine as long as everyone understands teleconference etiquette

Bloody posted:

I blew the mind of a young engineering colleague recently by alt tabbing.

Thanks Ants posted:

*joins webex* "hey i'm here"
*mute mic, do other stuff for an hour*
*unmute mic* "thanks for that guys, good presentation, bye"

Miss-Bomarc posted:

No, we are not permitted to have "mute" buttons on the actual phone. The idea, as it was explained to me, is that it's an info-security thing. People at neighboring cubicles might have discussions where proprietary information is exchanged, and we have to be able to mute our phones when that happens, BUT without a positive signal that our phone has been muted we can't be sure that it's on mute.

Evidently there's some process by which you can set the menu back to "short" (where it only says "YOU HAVE NOW BEEN MUTED, TO UN-MUTE HIT STAR-6") but:

*You can't get into this conference-call menu unless you're in an actual conference call
*The option is apparently buried three menu levels deep and there's no indication of where you have to go to change it
*It doesn't persist, so you have to do it again every time you dial into a conference.

Captain Foo posted:

holy gently caress lmao

BONGHITZ posted:

He is insecure about it and there is nothing you can do to help that poor man

BONGHITZ posted:

_{He is insecure about it and there is nothing you can do to help that poor man}

BONGHITZ posted:

_{He is insecure about it and there is nothing you can do to help that poor man}

BONGHITZ posted:

_{He is insecure about it and there is nothing you can do to help that poor man}

Smythe posted:

its cool that gamers can get 40 drat dudes in a molten core raid with subgroups, muting, etc - pretty reliably, and yet fortune 5 businesses are epic conference call fail. its cool to think that i have a more robust collaborative toolchain with my dota buddies than p deece 7 figmen have at work, which is true, by a longshot.

Agile Vector posted:

im porting tribes 2 vgs to skype for business, should solve a lot of this

"Are we moving consistently toward release, or do we need to delay?"

VVD - "I don't know."

"Well setup some time to review issues and we'll discuss at our next scrum."

VSTO - "I'm on it."

"Oh, I just got a ping from business, let me forward the invite…"

VWE - "Incoming hostiles!"

duTrieux. posted:

i'm really hoping that the retinal scanner thing isn't an embellishment because it's one of those details that would be rejected from a script for being just too loving much

quite stretched out posted:

the first thing that sprang to mind for me was that story about the googlex ceo getting lovely with silicon valley's writers because the googlex analogue wasnt "serious" enough, in a meeting that he wore rollerblades to

ahmeni posted:

in a meeting that he stormed out of while wearing rollerblades

quite stretched out posted:

graph posted:

this thread owns

Bloody posted:

fwiw this is even worse when it's a physical meeting in a conference room in another building

prefect posted:

this sucks when you're a person who likes to get to meetings early

Stymie posted:

meetings are the opposite of work so if you're in lots of meetings that means your business functions best when you're not attempting to do work and mess things up

Iridium posted:

this thread represents the core of everything yospos is.

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

just uninstalled sfb, the exchange account, and slack from my phone. a new life is here, and i do hope to never have another online meeting. i will keep following the thread to remember why

Iridium posted:

yeah, nobody wants that.

did get a new av tho.

uncurable mlady posted:

all office poo poo is dumb expensive

Iridium posted:

morning scrum. for the first time in memory, this PM has interrupted everyone who were going off into the weeds on a technical issue and asked that they save it for a later meeting that was arranged to discuss it.

of course, everyone is getting into it anyway because ignoring him has become a group reflex.

Mad Wack posted:

pm is a pretty poo poo job but at least it can pay well

god help you if you are doing a pm role and not making several dece six figgies

Iridium posted:

"You are now joining the meeting as a leader."

but is he, skype voice? really, is he?

Iridium posted:

PM to vendor: "We had this critical outage yesterday... you guys are Oracle experts so you may recognize this term: kernel panic?"

abraham linkedin posted:

rereading this and remembering that enterprise computing is an incestuous cesspit of idiot hellfuckers

Thanks Ants posted:

"this time we introduce one system to replace three existing ones i swear we will only run all four alongside each other for a short transition period"

Iridium posted:

so the director of my group (manager's boss) is in charge of our bullshit Innovation Team.

anthonypants posted:

https://twitter.com/kenlowery/status/818501389554946048

carry on then posted:

today we had a screaming kid in the background of someone on the conference call

classic

Iridium posted:

protip, get a loud mechanical keyboard if you dont already have one.

people on conference calls assume i'm working furiously as i'm blasting dick jokes all over IRC.

mod saas posted:

the non-stop pop pop of model magnitude

KoRMaK posted:

We were getting like 5 fps on a loving chat app