What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's amazing all the meetings you do with big vendors who were clearly not prepared for people to work effectively from home.
People trying to do really silly things like use RingCentral as a soft phone and can't make needed calls because they are already in meetings on their computer all of the time.
This is why you have desk phones and soft phones on your cell phones, people! We can make so many calls at once, using the business infrastructure. Even the tiniest of companies can and should have this stuff. It's so cheap.
WUT?
User on Skype/whatever call tried to use pc soft phone to make traditional call and mad cause of the overlap, I think.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's amazing all the meetings you do with big vendors who were clearly not prepared for people to work effectively from home.
People trying to do really silly things like use RingCentral as a soft phone and can't make needed calls because they are already in meetings on their computer all of the time.
This is why you have desk phones and soft phones on your cell phones, people! We can make so many calls at once, using the business infrastructure. Even the tiniest of companies can and should have this stuff. It's so cheap.
WUT?
User on Skype/whatever call tried to use pc soft phone to make traditional call and mad cause of the overlap, I think.
Yeah... why are they doing that stuff in this day and age? We have loads of tiny customers that were prepared for this and have hard phones so that working from home means actually working from home. So many employers see the home office as as day off or half assed work and it shows.
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@scottalanmiller That's only because they want control. If my boss sees the amount I work at home he would be asking me to stop working because I do more at home. Even my wife would tell you that. Constant meetings is a problem for me in the office.
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yes, this ^^^ I am more productive working from home, I get more support requests and complete more tasks than at work. I bypass breaks and take shorter lunch breaks, start earlier and work later.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's only because they want control.
"Wanting control" is in direct opposition to "running a business."
Putting control in front of profits and business is definitively anti-business. Which is my point... hobby behaviour, not business behaviour.
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listened to an interesting discussion on the radio the other week about the personality of management.
In a nutshell, people who hold management positions tend have higher degrees of narcissism in their personality than non managers, raising to the level of psychopathy in people like CEOs and the like.
this is why letting people work out of the office upsets some managers, you're taking away their control, by removing their ability to oversee staff.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's only because they want control.
"Wanting control" is in direct opposition to "running a business."
Putting control in front of profits and business is definitively anti-business. Which is my point... hobby behaviour, not business behaviour.
Oh yes, I am agreeing with you
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
this is why letting people work out of the office upsets some managers, you're taking away their control, by removing their ability to oversee staff.
That's not really it. I don't think. I think it exposes that their jobs were unneeded and that they don't' have any skills or value. Being exposed makes people upset.
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Sitting in an empty office building, listening to a conference call. My presence is required on the call, but my participation was limited to 5 minutes about an hour and half ago. Nobody ordered work snacks since everyone is work from home.
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@Agonnazar said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sitting in an empty office building, listening to a conference call. My presence is required on the call, but my participation was limited to 5 minutes about an hour and half ago. Nobody ordered work snacks since everyone is work from home.
Hang in there, maybe distract yourself
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@travisdh1 I had to reroute some point to point fiber in one of the server racks, so my presence really was required, but this conference call is just pure sadism on the devs part.
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Doing Exchange email support. Nice change of pace.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Doing Exchange email support. Nice change of pace.
hopefully a migration to something away from onprem
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Doing Exchange email support. Nice change of pace.
hopefully a migration to something away from onprem
I'm the consultant, so on prem is great
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Compiling final info on EMV (chip card readers) for outside fuel dispenser upgrades. Flying brand flags makes things so needlessly complex. We have 4 brands across 9 locations. Two are really great to work with, the other two? Meh.
It could always be worse. I could be lumped in with a massively huge group of unemployed. Blessings counted. -
Just upgraded my camera from monitor top to flex stand.
So much better. Can now put it just above my eye level when I am looking at stuff on the screen
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wow, that's quite the thing ^^^, i thought i was upbeat coz I have a camera on my desk.
but need coffee, must ingest caffeine.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
wow, that's quite the thing ^^^, i thought i was upbeat coz I have a camera on my desk.
but need coffee, must ingest caffeine.
Coffee? :white_heavy_check_mark:
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Legend.
OK, we have coffee.
Toilet paper?? -
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Legend.
OK, we have coffee.
Toilet paper??That is a state secret.
