maniacdevnull posted:

speakerphone + accent = productive use of everyone's time!

Stymie posted:

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

SO DEMANDING posted:

this call isn't really a clusterfuck but I'm falling asleep uuuuggggghhhh

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

yeah, it's not good, but having a liberal work from home policy is good, so i'm willing to put effort into making it work.

Agile Vector posted:

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

Thanks Ants posted:

people in cubicles should be issued headsets and have the speakerphone features disabled.

flakeloaf posted:

a developer of this software correctly predicted this problem and mitigated it

we truly live in a golden age

indigi posted:

any articles about bats this month?

Arcsech posted:

Win 10 changed the behavior of win+up and it pisses me off every time

Arcsech posted:

In win7 & 8 win+up maximized the current window. In win10 it does that... Except if you previously used win+left/right, then win+up reduces the window to a quarter of your screen, which is loving useless and awful.

Agile Vector posted:

sounds like we have an echo. can everyone mute their phones for BONGHITZ posts?

maniacdevnull posted:

Mad Wack posted:

at my job every conference room is owned by a department and assigned to the admin of that apt - this leads to you booking a room and getting a decline plus form email from the admin. there is no structure across the company for how these rooms are booked and each admin comes up with their own process so depending on what room you try to get you may just have a short im convo or you may be logging into lotus notes to submit a form to a database or even doing a transaction or two in sap. its really cool and good because every dept has way less rooms then they need so you get tribal warfare over rooms and hidden conference rooms.

my mind was blown when i went into finance and was introduced to the "cave" a conf room that looks like a group of cubes but the walls have been removed from the inside so people can meet. then after befriending the us controller i learned that the cave had a hidden cave that was actually a full conference room marked as a mother's room hidden in the back of the cave. also another group successfully lobbied to move the company convenience store to the cafeteria so they could turn it into a meeting room but they kept the keys with their admin so nobody could steal it. my dept (it, what a shocker) consolidated our data center and ops room into one room so the old noc became a hidden conference room that you need retina scanner access to get to and its forbidden to bring anyone outside the dept to it


so yeah people get weird about conference rooms and meeting titles


oh forgot one other thing, all our official conf rooms have those little touchscreens where you can book the room but one day global changed the corp directory backend without consulting the vendor so now for four months they just say "error: unreachable host" and flash between red and green

i don't really pay too much attention to any of this as i am currently consumed in the coffee room wars

Mad Wack posted:

i work in a gigantic multinational pharma company

Mad Wack posted:

nope its how we get into the data center, i have to angle it downward because whoever installed it was like 6'4"

Mad Wack posted:

its sort of like living in the 1000s of little kingdoms germany was before they became germany

FrozenVent posted:

lol if you think that works

Iridium posted:

me- Ok, so I guess my concern is the process side. We want to make sure if <group> is working on this they have all the details they need.
vendor- well this one's much more complex and is probably better suited to an admin role, like Lynn than the casual editors you have in <group>
me- Ah, ok. So we'll have to wait until she's back tomorrow so we can scope the workload for us.
Other tech- right but she's pretty heavily loaded but she's already been working with <group>, maybe they can handle it.
vendor- no, just to be clear, this is a much more detailed level of effort than <group> has been working on. it's really more at Lynn's speed.
PM- ok so what i'm hearing is that we need to get this documented so that <group> can get to work on it.
vendor- ... no. <explains again>

5 MINUTES LATER

PM- ok, action items, we need to get the documentation for <group>....

FrozenVent posted:

holy poo poo our official, regulatory compliance approved sop still says and I loving quote "facsimile is to be the preferred method of communication, where cost is not prohibitive"

are you loving kidding me

like the whole thing doesn't even mention email wtf

anthonypants posted:

our marketing person wants us to set up a shared document somewhere, and grant read/write access to everyone, and let them block off time that they can schedule for this meeting room at a conference somewhere. so i told her to just use outlook and i made a room for her and showed her how free/busy works and after like an hour i think she's just going to make an excel spreadsheet and manage it herself

anthonypants posted:

i used the analogy that you can lead a horse to water

Podima posted:

and that is why you always share application, not screen.

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

political action conference calling with a bunch of fellow socialists

from each according to their inability to mute their phone, to each until it becomes a screech of feedback

Iridium posted:

PM- "So one of the managers was able to back out some of the URL, got into the administration system, and was able to get into the backend to make changes. Is that normal? Is that expected behavior?"