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No offense to PowerPoint fans! I've observed people making pointless presentations to shore up their brand as employees, not to facilitate trade. It has other
by erikpukinskis 8y ago
No offense to PowerPoint fans! I've observed people making pointless presentations to shore up their brand as employees, not to facilitate trade.
It has other uses but... Have you not seen what I describe? That would be a useful data point for me if true.
- rightbyte 8y agoNot really but I guess that's dependent on company culture. You work at a stack rank place? Where I work Power Point is mainly used to make presentations that are easy to read on a projector screen (as it should be used). On many places it seems to be used as a general document writer application ... so what we emotionaly associate with Power Point might differ alot.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoActually I think this memory of mine comes mostly from Academia about a decade ago! Not really in the workplace.
- Retra 8y agoI've seen it a couple different ways. When a supervisor asks a subordinate to produce a powerpoint that the supervisor will edit/present to higher-ups, it generally looks as you describe. When a team leader produces a set of slides for their team, it's not so transparently theatric.