Company wide call with 100 ppl. Do you really need to announce yourself? "Bill's here". Just relax ppl and join the call silently
Seeing “action” a lot lately. As in, “can you action this?” or “please action asap.” Just tell me to do it, you weirdos.
Really enjoyed the company email from our CEO who made sure everyone knew he was safely quarantined in his summer house after skiing last week.
This is actually a real question, wasn't sure where else to put it. We're upgrading to a NAS from our current on-site server, and I've been asked to review the file tree and make any changes that may make it more efficient. Does anyone have any resources or advice on a practical way to do it? Best practices?
One of our sales execs posted a pic “working from quarantine in Estes Park with the family this week!” on our intranet post chat thing. He lives in Iowa.
So he probably used a drone to take the picture so as to be able to make sure and get his Yacht in the picture.
I worked for a Verizon startup that went to GSuite and it sucked ass. Current company is on 365 and it's exponentially better in every way. Teams and onedrive have been surprisingly great
I preferred GSuite over our current O365 setup. It bugs the hell out of me that Microsoft didn’t fully make a web-based product but tried to shoehorn their premise software into that format instead of a ground-up design. Too many O365 features are clunky. But I can live with it. Whatever.
Hand up, I am a connoisseur and active user of a fair number of the bullshit terms in this thread but "happy path" sucks ass and doesn't say anything. This is the Trump-ification of business buzzwords.
"Just keep me on copy" Can you not just say cc me?? Why does everyone have to try an act business fancy
The ability to mute anyone on the call is my new favorite thing. I use it for good (and sometimes evil). When someone has the meeting call them and doesn't answer and we get their voice mail (with their name so it tells everyone they are an idiot) I muted it so the meeting could go forward. Also mute people ordering food at the drive through twice this week.
You can stfu and follow the North Star on this engagement. It's the agile phrase used for laziest workflow in a product/process and anything specific that could break we won't work on yet even though it'll be important.
I don't understand why people don't mute their mic when they aren't talking. I have a couple co-workers who have kids in the background coming on screen, spouses talking to them, and they don't mute their mic. Blows my mind. I don't think little Charlie is cute and I don't want to hear little Sue cry in the background because mom told her to put down something. MUTE YOUR FUCKING MIC LIKE AN ADULT UNTIL YOU HAVE SOMETHING WORTH A FUCK TO SAY.
Only one person I work with does this and it's annoyingly pronounced "preezo" and he emphasizes it every single time like it's cool
I am starting a project today that's enterprise process improvement ideation. Expectation is 4 hour daily sessions for the next 4 weeks, and the we are apparently planning to be on video/webcam for the entirety. Shoot me now.
Im really not digging the video thing. I have a two hour meeting coming up and its 10 people staring at each other awkwardly on mute wiating for your turn to talk. Basically have took straight ahead the whole time.
If you have your laptop hooked to a monitor, pull the Zoom onto the big screen and put what you really want to look at on the laptop screen. That way you can be doing what tou want but it appears you’re looking straight into the camera.
I’ve been using conference calls for years and have never used my video cam. Blows my mind all the people in other industries using them now. Just use the damn audio/phone line and a screen share Some folks in my customers organization aren’t used to using screenshares and it becomes obvious when they’re the only one with video on.
That's the thing, our org has been using webex and skype for years and when everyone is in the office we've never bothered with video. But this specific project is big into it for some reason.
Haha the real fun bit is I’m actually in the process of moving to another role internally (has been in the works for 2.5 months). So what’s really going to happen is I’m going to continue to be accountable for this shit project while trying to figure out this new role.
that was my response a month ago. Google says it’s a team of specialists in a particular field brought together to work on specific tasks
Someone on a conference call just had a Kellen Winslow moment talking about how they were a soldier on the frontlines fighting supply shortages on key PPE items
Just got an email from a salesperson trying to set up a phone call.....email sign off was "Decisively Yours, Jarred".
Prospect of ours has been a total pain in the ass. Decision maker sends out a final round of questions. His signature line: “Regards, Travis ‘T-Rex’ F.” update: he’s a skinny, 5’7” IT exec