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Yeah it's petty and spoiled. You could just get used to it but choose to be spiteful. It's just a chat/video tool, who cares where the buttons are? OTOH if you

by croo 5y ago

Yeah it's petty and spoiled. You could just get used to it but choose to be spiteful. It's just a chat/video tool, who cares where the buttons are? OTOH if you feel that strong about it how do a bunch of random strangers get to invalidate your feelings? The strong emotions that makes you decline a job is a good indicatior that you give a fuck. Try to move in that direction and you may find motivation and purpose.

dijit 5y ago
I can’t get used to it, that’s the major problem. My previous company used communicator then lync then Skype for business and then teams. I worked there for a few years with teams as the “primary” conversation platform (though my team also used slack- but that meant you couldn’t contact anyone outside of my team using slack ofc) No doubt Teams improves some things from Skype for business, but the issue is that the UI is generally inconsistent with itself and notifies people randomly. “You might like x” Maybe it was mismanaged, maybe my org was too big (20,000 people), maybe the groups were setup wrong. But when I am in a chat with someone and I can’t type to reply because I get pop ups that steal my keyboard focus, or I have to dig through a bunch of IM chats I’ve been having to find the right conversation to continue. Or I post something accidentally in a discussion group and it posts as if it’s a forum post and due to the rules of that group I can’t edit or delete it… then get notified of all the replies… I get frustrated.
- floxy 5y ago
  >notifies people randomly. “You might like x” >pop ups that steal my keyboard focus FWIW, my company uses Teams, and I've never seen a pop up or auto suggestion or the like. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has the same experiences that you do. Maybe we're not power users? It is mostly an IM and video conferencing/web meeting thing for us.
  - cirrus3 5y ago
    same, never heard of that behavior and I use Teams daily
  - dijit 5y ago
    The pop-up notification thing was likely because I was on Linux. It would generate a toast which was an "important" window, which would then steal focus. The suggested content was very jarring, basically it worked as if someone had highlighted me in a post; but they had not highlighted me. Teams gave me advance notice that this might happen by telling me explicitly that they'd be suggesting content I might be interested in. I found a blog article about the functionality here: https://office365itpros.com/2020/03/26/teams-trending-suggested-notifications/ https://office365itpros.com/2020/03/26/teams-trending-sugges...

by croo 5y ago

dijit 5y ago

I can’t get used to it, that’s the major problem. My previous company used communicator then lync then Skype for business and then teams. I worked there for a few years with teams as the “primary” conversation platform (though my team also used slack- but that meant you couldn’t contact anyone outside of my team using slack ofc) No doubt Teams improves some things from Skype for business, but the issue is that the UI is generally inconsistent with itself and notifies people randomly. “You might like x” Maybe it was mismanaged, maybe my org was too big (20,000 people), maybe the groups were setup wrong. But when I am in a chat with someone and I can’t type to reply because I get pop ups that steal my keyboard focus, or I have to dig through a bunch of IM chats I’ve been having to find the right conversation to continue. Or I post something accidentally in a discussion group and it posts as if it’s a forum post and due to the rules of that group I can’t edit or delete it… then get notified of all the replies… I get frustrated.

floxy 5y ago
>notifies people randomly. “You might like x” >pop ups that steal my keyboard focus FWIW, my company uses Teams, and I've never seen a pop up or auto suggestion or the like. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has the same experiences that you do. Maybe we're not power users? It is mostly an IM and video conferencing/web meeting thing for us.
- cirrus3 5y ago
  same, never heard of that behavior and I use Teams daily
- dijit 5y ago
  The pop-up notification thing was likely because I was on Linux. It would generate a toast which was an "important" window, which would then steal focus. The suggested content was very jarring, basically it worked as if someone had highlighted me in a post; but they had not highlighted me. Teams gave me advance notice that this might happen by telling me explicitly that they'd be suggesting content I might be interested in. I found a blog article about the functionality here: https://office365itpros.com/2020/03/26/teams-trending-suggested-notifications/ https://office365itpros.com/2020/03/26/teams-trending-sugges...