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Its Teams--the meeting was a mess the minute it was scheduled using Teams
by a2tech 3y ago
Its Teams--the meeting was a mess the minute it was scheduled using Teams
- mulletbum 3y agoWhat meeting platform is not a mess then?
- usr1106 3y agoWe use Google Meet at work. I would not call it a mess, but collaboration features are rather limited. It's one presenter typically. Of course in Google docs and sheets many can edit at the same time and create a mess. But it's not really integrated to an online meeting. The few times I have used Microsoft Meet I found it harder to navigate. Whether that's a real problem or just not what I am used to I don't know.
- themarbz 3y agoGoogle Meet
- cj 3y agoAgreed. I never got why many people hate on Google Meet. It’s one of the few that don’t push a download to join a meeting, everything is lightweight and sandboxed in the browser.
- ehutch79 3y agoHonestly? I don't even think an in person, at a table, meetings arn't a mess....
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoThis is frequently the case, but this is a combination of factors; immature or insecure participants, no agenda, no moderator, nobody that ever had any formal training on how to conduct a meeting correctly. But as a team (if you have a meeting with a team) there's agreements you can make, like how only one person can speak at a time (use an accessory like a ball to indicate who can speak right now). This will make the meeting more egalitarian, since in a lot of meetings (usually involving men), it's a lot of people interrupting and talking over each other so that the less forward participants are effectively pushed out of the meeting.
- ehutch79 3y agoSure, roberts rules of order are a thing for a reason. There's also a lot of cases where a meeting goes from reviewing workflow or implementation details and someone ends up railroading the meeting into bikeshedding the sidebar color.
- HelloMcFly 3y agoI realize it's pretty easy fodder to dump on Teams around here, but I've honestly found it works better than any of the alternatives that I've used (Zoom, BlueJeans, Meet, Webex). It's a little bloated, though the new preview version my team is enrolled in for some reason loads faster though some features are missing. I'm not putting on a cape for Teams, it's just the best entree in the buffet line to me right now. I do hate that they removed the ability for any meeting attendee to go add notes to the meeting in advance though.
- eska 3y agoI just hand out a jitsi meet link when the bloated software people have each other install doesn’t work. No install or account required
- nerdjon 3y agoI really hate Microsoft for pushing teams so heard with office 365, this software was just not ready to be released (it really still isn't). It seems to be bad wether or not its on Windows or Mac (I used to think it was just bad on Mac but I have had that assumption proven wrong multiple times now). The number of times I have coworkers whose cameras just don't work. My current fun 2 issues, I no longer get any alerts so I am stuck keeping my work phone next to me for teams alerts and my microphone has a weird popping or static to it (I can't reproduce this with any other app). It feels like almost every meeting someone will end up uttering the words "damnit teams" or some variation when something just doesn't work as it should. Slack may have had some problems but I really miss using it.
- kcplate 3y agoMy biggest complaint…on a mac, I can’t alt-tab to show the teams window, so i get the fun of tiling teams with outlook on a single space and tabbing to outlook to see my teams window. It’s maddening.
- gellpak 3y agoI got so frustrated with this that I installed Edge and now have Teams running as a web app, and at least that behaves itself.