Where I work there is now an industry of setting up these meetings, it's virtually fully remote and plenty of people here produce nothing tangible so having meetings I guess is the comfort blanket for them that they're doing *something* while they're not attending an actual workplace.My current place has a meeting culture of “keep working cam off if you want” which other than lots of “sorry can you repeat I wasn’t paying attention” seems to work pretty well. But equally there’s a company wide hatred of meetings so they’re quite rare.
God, I hate that.People that email you then phone you 60 seconds later to tell you they've sent an email or ask you if you've read the email
Never mind the IT Dept, tell him to start digging the new stadium.Shall I tell the Vice-Chancellor at Warwick or will you??
We're migrating to OneDrive and Office365 and it is absolutely bewildering to me! I try to open a link that someone has sent me and it says it's not accessible - and i have NO idea why!! If i'm WFH, i never know if it's because i'm not logged in to the work VPN, but i am assured not. It keeps logging me out! So i end up just doing it old-school and saving a copy to my hard drive or the network drive and emailing a copy to people.
My wife migrated her organisation (admittedly rather smaller than mine) to Google, and it seems much simpler by comparison.
Teams works pretty well for us, with the dropouts being attributable to my home modem rather than the system, and we use the chat function for daily communication within the team which i don't think Zoom has.
Anyone remember Skype? Microsoft clearly dropped that like a hot brick and put their eggs in the Teams basket (sorry for the mixed metaphors!!).
Also see - me commenting on football.People who talk about technology/‘computer stuff’…because Im too thick to understand what they’re talking about.
Also see - people who talk about cars/car maintenance, any kind of building work, roads/motorways, business/finance, my job etc etc etc.
Companies who expect you to be available 24/7 to them on Slack.
In my experience there's two problems, customers ignore SLAs and expect you to be available instantly 24/7 hours a day and managers do nothing when this problem comes up when they should be making it clear to the customer what the terms areDo you not put SLAs in your contracts?
Companies who expect you to be available 24/7 to them on Slack.
In my experience there's two problems, customers ignore SLAs and expect you to be available instantly 24/7 hours a day and managers do nothing when this problem comes up when they should be making it clear to the customer what the terms are
Not to mention its often the managers who are expecting you to be available whenever they feel like contacting you
Slack?Companies who expect you to be available 24/7 to them on Slack.
I don’t even have a Slack account but a client keeps sending me invitations to sign up - I told them before I don’t have it and don’t intend to - I sent them an email earlier to let them know it’d be a monthly standing charge of €500 to message me on there.Send them an invoice every time they message you. They will soon stop.
When I was self employed I had a customer who was terrible for it, I said my time was chargeable so it would be even more for answering his calls. (Double time).
He soon stopped.
I don’t even have a Slack account but a client keeps sending me invitations to sign up - I told them before I don’t have it and don’t intend to - I sent them an email earlier to let them know it’d be a monthly standing charge of €500 to message me on there.
Automatic renewals.
Pay £40 for something last year for 12 months.
£150 goes out of my account today even though it's on offer for the same price I paid last year.
Get to fuck. Will fight them to the death for it.
They've probably met their very minimal obligations under law by hiding it in their terms and conditions. When consumers are asked to agree to terms and conditions especially for SaaS type arrangements there really should be a key facts type summary with things like "What happens at the end of the initial term". "How do I cancel my subscription"Why can we get laws about fucking cookies needing express permission but not this?
Ive worked at a SaaS business that knew damn well what they were doing as well and would fight any attempt to make it clear to users.
All of my 'service' providers: phone contract, broadband, energy utilities etc., contact me a month before my deal expires to inform me that the T&C's will be changing (even Amazon email me to remind me of my upcoming Prime subscription renewal).They've probably met their very minimal obligations under law by hiding it in their terms and conditions. When consumers are asked to agree to terms and conditions especially for SaaS type arrangements there really should be a key facts type summary with things like "What happens at the end of the initial term". "How do I cancel my subscription"
Well I think it's about time you knew where you were!All of my 'service' providers: phone contract, broadband, energy utilities etc., contact me a month before my deal expires to inform me that the T&C's will be changing (even Amazon email me to remind me of my upcoming Prime subscription renewal).
Why isn't this done for less generic service providers?
Edit : On the other hand, OS maps take their £25 every year without contacting me.
Maybe we should all stick a reminder in our calendars 11 months after we commit to any annual service payment.
The sudden calling Kiev "Keev".
Every fucker has always said Chicken Kiev for years and its a proper box ticking exercise, particularly on MasterChef the other night.
Box ticking?
what box is being ticked?
It’s just like Kherson when the war started now it’s Herson.I guess political correctness? It just seems forced.
Pronouncing things correctly is just forced wokism eh?I guess political correctness? It just seems forced.
Pronouncing things correctly is just forced wokism eh?
Just like ‘Putin’. Now pronounced ‘wanker’.
Is he liked now?!Missed plenty of episodes but it is pretty nauseating that a few man made “trials” is enough to win over the public.
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