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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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Agile Vector posted:im porting tribes 2 vgs to skype for business, should solve a lot of this shazbot! shazbot! shazbot! shazbot! shazbot!
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in the sprint this week it really dawned on me how rough the people calling in have it. one person, shana, always gets ribbed about turning her volume up hahah lolol we can hear each other just fine. the meeting consists of 2 people with rather quiet speaking voices 2 people with what I would class as "normal" volume voices 1 person who never, ever speaks at more than a mumbled whisper. also he always puts his laptop between him and the microphone. this man is the lead developer. 1 person whose voice ranges from "very loud" to "please speak quieter, you're hurting my ears ow" shana apparently is using headphones plugged in to her desk phone with all volume everywhere turned up to max. she still can't hear what the whisperer says and often has a hard time hearing the 2 "rather quiet" people. just realized the loud person is probably blowing out her eardrums every time they open their mouth. it's me, I'm the loud one 
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drove 2 hours to attend a vendor presentation because said vendor claims to have god-technology that will turn my whole industry upside down and has been highly cagey with anything resembling a detail. wanted a chance to look someone in the face and get some questions answered someone on the call seems to be scuba diving, or perhaps preparing dinner? just loud gurgling and popping noises going on and on at full volume. no voices or toilets, just mysterious fluid sounds telecon start time rolls around. no presenter in sight. presenter walks into the room at 8 minutes past the hour, takes out laptop and gets it booting. the host says ok can you give me the slides so I can put them on the podium computer and they can go out via gotomeeting. presenter says "skype?". host: "the people on the call are all on gotomeeting." presenter: "skype??" host: "they are on gotomeeting. the client only takes a moment to-" presenter: "that computer wouldn't have the codecs to play these slides." host: "I guess you could skype me, then I could share that over goto" agreed we were then treated to some .3 fps videos, a quarter of an hour after the presentation was due to start. the presenter walked around the room, further and further from the telecon phone on the table, while talking with his hands and using his phone as a prop. Q&A time: some lady mumbles a 5 minute long question. i was sitting 10 feet away from her in the same room and heard not one word. presenter does not repeat her question into the mic, summarize, or give any clue as to what the lady just said. they carry on back and forth for a few minutes. no relevant information appears to have been exchanged anyhow. remainder of Q&A consisted of him repeating marketing bullet items at me and trying to avoid having taking questions from me. not enough people on the call or in the meeting to do a clean job of that though lol
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Corla Plankun posted:why would you ever do this? did you get a per diem or paid miles or something? took a company car, the extra time can be used as pto whenever i want. So I worked 5 extra hours, i can take off at 11 am on monday or any other day if i want. this kind of time doesn't expire, though you are limited in how much you can carry from pay period to pay period. this vendor had been making these claims for almost 2 years, we have some small contracts with them, i wanted Some Goddamn Answers. so we showed up in person and i asked about a ton of unaddressed problems. it's a small industry, no details. But the fact that they kept resorting to marketing talking points- while 5 levels of senior scientists in my org were listening- might give people some pause.
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