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Teams was a not-insignificant reason for leaving my last company. My day to day stress levels immediately plummeted after going back to using Slack. People say

by calmoo 5y ago

Teams was a not-insignificant reason for leaving my last company. My day to day stress levels immediately plummeted after going back to using Slack. People say Slack is terrible, but I tell them go to use Teams and then come back to me. It is by far the biggest dumpster fire software I've had the displeasure of using. It's the only software that has made me consistently angry. All of the issues you described I have experienced. One of the most plaguing issues was actually viewing new messages. When clicking a channel to view new messages, 50% of the time the screen would be blank and I would have to click away and back to render the chat.

sirwhinesalot 5y ago
That blank screen issue has happened to me as well. The pandemic massively increased how much I needed to interact with Microsoft Teams, and let me tell you, it did not make me happy. Not one bit. Perhaps it's a giant ploy by Microsoft to try and get people to hate remote work. How do you screw up a chat program this badly?
- hackerfromthefu 5y ago
  Another neat blank screen issue is sometimes people video doesn't work on a call, but it can be fixed by disabling the network card in device manager for a few seconds then re-enabling the network .. at which point the video works. Mindboggling
- tanseydavid 5y ago
  >> "How do you screw up a chat program this badly?" By having the highest-level-goal be: make it look like the competition and give it away for free. Whether it actually works like the competition was deferred until some later date. If the competition perishes in the meantime, well, then there's no need to fix.
c7DJTLrn 5y ago
Whether a company uses the Microsoft suite is definitely a factor when I look for jobs. I simply won't put up with Teams or Windows - not unless the salary is at least 2x what I can get elsewhere. I know I'm not alone in this. Developers want to work with good software. I've had to put up with it before and I won't do it again. I can almost feel my cortisol levels rising just thinking about it.
- calmoo 5y ago
  Yep, I get the same stressed out feeling even thinking about Teams. I 100% would not work for another company that uses anything more than Outlook from the Microsoft suite. Life is just too short.
- anm89 5y ago
  100% true for me as well.

by calmoo 5y ago

sirwhinesalot 5y ago

That blank screen issue has happened to me as well. The pandemic massively increased how much I needed to interact with Microsoft Teams, and let me tell you, it did not make me happy. Not one bit. Perhaps it's a giant ploy by Microsoft to try and get people to hate remote work. How do you screw up a chat program this badly?

hackerfromthefu 5y ago
Another neat blank screen issue is sometimes people video doesn't work on a call, but it can be fixed by disabling the network card in device manager for a few seconds then re-enabling the network .. at which point the video works. Mindboggling
tanseydavid 5y ago
>> "How do you screw up a chat program this badly?" By having the highest-level-goal be: make it look like the competition and give it away for free. Whether it actually works like the competition was deferred until some later date. If the competition perishes in the meantime, well, then there's no need to fix.

c7DJTLrn 5y ago

Whether a company uses the Microsoft suite is definitely a factor when I look for jobs. I simply won't put up with Teams or Windows - not unless the salary is at least 2x what I can get elsewhere. I know I'm not alone in this. Developers want to work with good software. I've had to put up with it before and I won't do it again. I can almost feel my cortisol levels rising just thinking about it.

calmoo 5y ago
Yep, I get the same stressed out feeling even thinking about Teams. I 100% would not work for another company that uses anything more than Outlook from the Microsoft suite. Life is just too short.
anm89 5y ago
100% true for me as well.