Me irl

Ngl teams is trash. Especially when IT keeps messing with settings they don’t understand.

Easily the worst popular messaging app out there. Even on windows the thing barely ever worked for me and hogged a bunch of system resources to boot
As with many messaging apps only thing keeping it alive is the network effect (and integration with 365)
- You moved your mouse near the calendar? LET ME CREATE A MEETING FOR YOU!
  You opened up a card from a planning board? LET ME TRUNCATE THE TITLE SO YOU CAN’T READ IT!
  You opened a document? HAHA CAN’T DO THAT FROM YOUR IP BUT YOU WON’T GET AN ERROR MESSAGE JUST AN INFINITELY SPINNING DOODAD!
  I wish they just copied better apps like the Microsoft of old did.
- Is Teams a messaging app? 😮‍💨 Then please give me a way to sort and group my chats.
IT enforced background blur for GDPR reasons. You simply couldn't turn it off, so everybody was blurred during the daily standup.
- The sound of thousands of underpowered integrated graphics processors, their fans screaming in agony.
- I despise these blurred backgrounds. I understand if you use it when working from home and don't have a dedicated office, but so many people do it even when they're at the corporate office. The flickering is just super annoying.

I don't particularly like the UI, but I haven't had any Issue with teams ever tbh. It even worked on Firefox with uBlock, NoScript (ofc allowing like one or two domains for it) and VPN. For me, Office in general just works most of the time. I would never use it for private stuff, let alone pay hundreds for it, but for work it's more than fine.

Except Outlook. Holy fuck, how is such a central application such a pile of steaming garbage? It has the worst UI/UX I have ever seen in any mail client by far.

Outlook is a fucking mess. I wanted to search for a keyword in a long-ass email yesterday, so of course I did F, like a normal person would. That opened the dialog to write and send a reply??? Why???
And web browser outlook having no keyboard shortcuts whatsoever is fucking criminal.
Same. Teams isn't exactly good, but it works pretty okayish most of the time. I absolutely don't get the love for slack, it seems to be more like an "I use Arch, BTW" thing.
- Have you used Slack?
I'm forced to have two separate Outlook accounts, I quite literally can not use both accounts on the same computer without getting stuck in a neigh inescapable login loop from hell.

Fuck Slack, Google Chat and Workplace.

Companies abuse it's use instead of using emails and tickets, it's fucking chaos.

Yeah let's make people contact us through this public chat, all at once, I'm sure it won't be a fucking mess.

You can write to me by chat but no ticket no help
"I am very busy and have my work day planned to work efficiently, so I won't be handling your request immediately. This means things can slip through cracks if there is no ticked describing the task created - create one if what you are asking for is of any importance."
Followed by not doing anything that doesn't have a ticket and didn't come directly from people you report to.
Also I have notifications disabled and only check slack between tasks or if I take a breather from a task - on average 4-5 times a day. I also check email as the first and last thing in a workday only
IMHO, you need to know how to admin a good slack workplace. Properly setup workflows, bots and plugins can proactively funnel a lot of people toward the correct intake and resolution systems. You also need to train people on best practices, and revisit that training so bad habits don’t set in.
Training + automation are kind of required to make any communication platform effective.

Just transitioned from a Google + slack company to a Microsoft account company.

I asked if we put our email accounts on our phones to be able to answer after hours, my supervisor said very few people are given access to emails on their phones.

I am fine with the switch, I used to get 40-60 emails to sort through a day. Now I will be doing maybe 5-10 a day and only 3 or 4 might actually be for me and I only have an 8 hour day with no after hours meetings.

I've had a company require employees to install MDM on personal phones (remote control/management) to be allowed to use them for 2fa app or email access.. there was a surprised Pikachu when I refused. Eventually they issued me a company phone, because it was impossible to do most tasks without 2fa. That device was on 9 to 5 only.
- But why would anyone?
  I have an MDM on my work phone and I can't even access PlayStore anymore. It only allows Company Allowed Apps which is to say nothing. YouTube is broken because MDM somehow controls my DNS records. Firefox cannot be installed so Ads everywhere. Chrome only and it can only go to approved websites because Yahoo is safe but Ars Technica is not???
  Why would anyone want that on a device they pay for?
  Is my MDM different from their MDM?
- What the fuck? Are there really people who allow that?
Sounds like a pretty big win to me? Who answers emails after hours, yuck
- I'm going from a 24/6 bigger city operation to a mon-fri 7-430 operation in a small town. It is a huge win for me.
But ... why?
Outlook on phones works well enough. Was it some security measurement or something?
- My particular company emails contain privilege information and there is absolutely zero trust in letting smart phones aka roaming data leaks anywhere near that.

I tried to get our team to move to Matrix when COVID hit and there was no infrastructure for remote work.

It was such a shame that it was that exact time Jitsi had issues with Firefox (which most of us use), so we couldn't videochat.

If Jitsi had that resolved immediately, we perhaps could have used something open for at least couple of years. Maybe others would follow suit.

Oh well. Teams it is.

- But I also harp a lot to my superiors about donating to open-source projects we utilize, make loads of money thanks to them, yet never give anything back.
  I kinda get that some projects with limited backing can't "get their shit together", when successful users don't give them anything. It's a stupid pattern, and I hope we can break it.

Teams is miserable

In Teams I can't use my system volume to control Bluetooth headphones... drives me bananas. Especially because one of my coworkers has a loud mic

Teams communication is fine but that file "structure" is atrocious.

My favorite Teams feature is that when you share your screen, it puts some giant bar that can't be hidden at the top of the screen that covers up your tabs.

We have Skype + Mattermost (without gifs) + Rainbow. Give me Teams if you want, but please, stop adding tools.

Google + Slack is pure unadulterated garbage. Gotta wonder what Teams is like if you suddenly develop nostalgy for a flaming dumpster.

Teams just doesn't work
I have a lot of grudges with Google and slack, but I have tried Teams exactly once and I never want to have to deal with this software again

IMO Teams is better than Slack

Sometimes people have wrong opinions, don't worry it happens to the best of us (/s)

I don't know if I could deal with this bullshit. I work at such a small office we don't do anything but calls, faxes, and shitloads of emails. The odd side text sometimes. Adding a whole chat space thing where I'm constantly on the hook for a reply would do my head in.

Faxes? Really? Is someone still using fax? Why?!
- And they're saying chat software is a headache lol

Microsoft actively hates its users. Why are all of the keyboard shortcuts in the most inconvenient place possible? Why does Outlook not mark mail as read/unread in an intuitive way? Why does Teams schedule send require one tap on mobile but two clicks on desktop? Also this isn’t even the thread to get into whatever tf is going on with LinkedIn. Planting seeds and harvesting crops was a mistake.

Did you know windows has a dedicated keyboard shortcut for launching linkedin, teams, and all the main Microsoft office products?

Beats WebEx. I contracted at Cisco after they had bought WebEx and the dev teams had to stagger their scrums in the morning because WebEx infra couldn't support all the meetings at once.

Beats Skype for Business too, which was Microsoft's previous offering. And it was BAD.
- What? Skype was waay better than Teams! It only started turning into dogshit when Microsoft acquired it.
  **Edit: Skype, not "Skype For Business", as others pointed out.

Microsoft's O365 stack and Teams aren't great, my friend, but they're light years ahead of anything Google and Slack offer. Especially when any sort of collaboration is involved.

The collaboration features in 365 fuck up and get in the way a lot more often than they work correctly WITH ONLY TWO CONCURRENT USERS. Conversely, I've seen entire classrooms in Google Docs working together like it wasn't even a thing.
I don't have a lot of love for any of these companies, but what you are saying is objectively false.
Completely wrong. The Microsoft word collaboration is completly Terrible, constantly locks other people from editing even if they are on another part of the page. It really doesn't work for more than 2 people, while you can have like 30 people on a google doc with no issues (probably more, haven't tried more).
Also, I blocked beehaw, why can I see your comment
- I can't dispute that. I'm not a Word person. I live in Excel and often have half a dozen people working in the same file without issue, but that's much more logically structured than a Word document. Google's team sites are also disjointed and janky af compared to Sharepoint.