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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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mumble for devs would also be apropos

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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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had to hang up and redial several numbers because our legacy audio bridge and telepresence bridge dont share numbers and there order matters

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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*spends ten minutes talking about video guys background while phone members just sit quietly*

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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maniacdevnull posted:

*mumbles and never pauses between words or sentences*

nice english speaking american dev call you got there. itd be a shame if somebody spoke up :clint:

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Adix posted:

i only listened to a minute but not enough people talking over each other

followed by a minute of 'no, you go' apologies

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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had a multi dialin multi telepresence meeting the other day and it was laffo bad thanks to a shite system that nobody uses being randomly included in the invite. it took 15 minutes of the half hour meeting to get things sorted. it was like a clusterfuck hosed another clusterfuck in the same way galaxies collide but with more corporate muting

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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we sometimes use a jabber client too and you get people using their phones wedged into a cup trying to do video calls with screen sharing

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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mishaq posted:

skype for business and blue jeans are very bad

ive never had issues with webex but i only ever do those with other companies, we dont have it

we used to have gotomeeting and it always just worked but we stopped using that now

loving blue jeans is
A W F U L  G A R B A G E
and i have no clue how they stay in business because nobody uses it again after the first time

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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also we had a conference call with video today that, due to our poo poo garbage for losers (us) system, the new participant couldnt figure out so they had to listen in to a full presentation and project discussion

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Shaggar posted:

if its an internal server maybe, but our skypes for business is on office 365 and sometimes I have the client not get a message on one of 2 devices. its bad and they need to go to persistent server side chat w/ client side notifications. its beyond easy to do but they're stubborn as gently caress about it cause OUTLOOK

just lol if you add good connect in the mix so messages just unreliably go somewhere before disppearing

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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maniacdevnull posted:

types in the chat window "ok so you need to be on the dial in from the invite text, if you clicked join now and joined that voice line we arent on that because lol it is 1997"

*dials into call, but doesn't click invite to group chat for screen share*

'can someone invite me? i missed the group invite! i cant see anything'

*a dozen people try to get the employee id, send multiple invites, and ask if they could manually spell their name over the conference line*

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Arcsech posted:

this is perfect

it's like the platonic ideal of a conference call

or platos cave

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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i mean minus the shadows of course. instead he just describes the concept of shadows. eventually the lights turn out due to inactivity and everyone is left to find meaning in the static of the unmuted mic

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Thanks Ants posted:

polycom have a noise reduction technology and it's incredibly good. but most people join conferences with poo poo hardware so welp

the poo poo hardware is my desktop phone :smithicide:

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Jonny 290 posted:

yall get ready, the quarterly yospos conference call is coming up.

i'll have a bridge running off my asterisk box we can dial into, and there may be a webex

my various client apps are ready *unchecks mute and moves next to active garbage disposal*

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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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???

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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indigi posted:

5 hour call? do they have breaks scheduled in?

lol

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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sounds like a successful use of video conferencing services provided by $YOURCOMPANYNAMEHERE

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Arcsech posted:

jabber does the same thing

but everybody should already know it is a piece of poo poo, as it is a piece of software from cisco

there should be a send video toggle somewhere i think, at least our version has one

Bloody posted:

i never have online meetings, just good old fashioned conference calls. better get off the group call-in number before the next meeting shows up!!!

lol the rotating beeps as people keep dialing in and leaving waiting for the other meeting

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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had another blue jeans meeting that was so bad we switched all 50 people to our cisco system. there was one gripe about being remote and needing access. we dropped the call before he finished lol get jabber dumbo

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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maniacdevnull posted:

That one rear end in a top hat who gives you a passive aggressive ping when you decline a meeting. 'oh, your calendar said you were free' yeah that don't mean i am at your disposal cocknuts


also goog keyboard read my swipe as agile instead of rear end in a top hat, loving Smooth

daily rear end in a top hat stand up?

rear end in a top hat sprints?

rear end in a top hat scrum (ew)?

rear end in a top hat manifesto?

yep checks out

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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if you change waterfall to water sports it correctly describes agile waterfall dev cycles

Agile Vector fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Aug 18, 2016

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Zamujasa posted:

who needs an online meeting when you have a polycom phone!!

actually screw the polycom just dial on your lovely cell phone and toss it into the middle of the conference room table on speaker, hearing the other party as nothing but intermittent voices that sound like a 8kbps mp3 is a good way to communicate

no please hold the phone on speaker to your ear then move it away and talk at it to respond like youre using a busted walkie talkie

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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mishaq posted:

the problem i see too often is people leaving the built in mic on their laptop on while simultaneously dialing in on their deskphone for nice feedback loops

this is exactly what happens when we use blue jeans

personally i have unlimited minutes and my own phone isnt 15 year old cisco junk so i just use that and a good headset and can use jabber if i want to avoid the compression of modern cellphones

and i can just leave the building and go for walks while listening and thats required for frustrating calls

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Rooney McNibnug posted:

"I'm not seeing your skype screenshare, you want to try and restart it?"
"I'm not seeing your skype screenshare, you want to try and restart it?"
"I'm not seeing your skype screenshare, you want to try and restart it?"
"I'm not seeing your skype screenshare, you want to try and restart it?"
"I'm not seeing your skype screenshare, you want to try and restart it?"
"I'm not seeing your skype screenshare, you want to try and restart it?"
"I'm not seeing your skype screenshare, you want to try and restart it?"
"I'm not seeing your skype screenshare, you want to try and restart it?"

or the other way around where the same guy asks if everyone can see his screen every call and its always yes

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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*long pause while guy waits for someone, anyone, to say no*






'okay, so if you look here'

*screenshare becomes lethargic and nothing shows correctly*

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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maniacdevnull posted:

Hey, can we get back to the topic at hand, hilarious bug magazine puns?

caterpillar fancy

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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also we had a regular dialin and nobody dialed so the people on the line had to text us to tell us they were waiting for ten minutes

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Thanks Ants posted:

incoming trainwrecks that you can see coming a mile off and are nowhere near being your responsibility to resolve are great though, i agree

liked and shared in chat but not visible tp those with fullscreen during screen shares

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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lync tight skepy

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Mad Wack posted:

Our 25 person conf call once got to listen to a VP order a shamrock shake from a mcdonalds drive thru, taste it, and send it back

thats a real power play

lol

Arcsech posted:

i dunno,
works

oh man :pray:

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Cat Face Joe posted:

same but a hot poo poo up and coming director

a real water play

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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ccs: dialed into a meeting I was walking to today and I:
lost connection
redialed
arrived
everyone else outside the office joined on the phone
we realized some should have a telepresence going
dropped ALL calls bc our system sucks
added the tp, then the calls
the tp failed to detect on the conf line, so we dialed the room tp
and dropped the calls
and dialed the calls again
the two guys adjusted an overly sensitive and jumpy camera for 5 minutes
and then were disrupted by someone bluffing their way into the conf room claiming a reservation
followed by the remaining 20 minutes of an hour meeting being meeting
:nutshot:

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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'hi, my name is ag-'

*line cuts out as someone walks in a windy area*

*dozen messages appear asking for name again and one person cant see the screen share*

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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duTrieux. posted:

he was probably sharing that specific application. if he had been sharing his screen instead he would have been horsed.

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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our tp today had a chair covering half their end so it was in perfect focus and the rest of their feed was blurry like the most boring telenovela ever

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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flakeloaf posted:

sorry I just got heSORRY I JUST GOT HESORRY I JUST GOT HESQUOOKOOKOOKOOKOOKOOKOOK

caseofthemondays.gif :smith:

Cat Face Joe posted:

and the timing is incredibly tight, we have to ensure that we can *beedeep TOM SHITFUCKER HAS JOINED THE CALL* or we'll never get a chance with this customer again

can you repeat that

i said if we don't HI ITS TOM SHITFUCKER SORRY I'M LATE

please repeat that again

I SAID *deebeep*

ok I said *beedeep TOM SHITFUCKER HAS JOINED THE CALL*

caseofthetuesdays.gif :smithicide:

Thanks Ants posted:

company has two locations about 120 miles apart, spent a load of money turning a room in one office into a video conference room, didn't buy anything for the other office. one guy travels between the two sites three days a week to sit at a desk and work on email, and maybe once a month has to have a face-to-face meeting.

any money you spend on conferencing stuff you might as well burn or just buy a load of beers with.

caseofthefridays.gif :unsmigghh:

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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Necc0 posted:

someone doesn't realize they aren't muted and is sighing REALLY loudly like every 30 seconds

morbid obesity is a helluva drug

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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SO DEMANDING posted:

i encountered someone at work who does this. every single day, work is over he holds down the power button to turn off his computer. blew my mind. had to explain that this was a bad thing, and to use start > shutdown.

you can really confuse him by showing him how to assign shutdown to when he presses the power button

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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

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lol @ communicator not having spellcheck until the lync rebrand

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