The Picard ManeuverDeath by PowerPoint [Work Chronicles]
cerementthe slides will be in our corporate colors: yellow text on a pink background …
superduperpirateAnd the presenter will regularly quiz attendees on the content
Not quiz as such. More like “any questions so far?” at the end of each slide, but will not give you time to ask anything “no? Ok, moving on”
Or the awkward 5 minutes of silence when no one has a question at all.
Wow! What a quick reader!!
Add to that going back 2-3 slides every 5mins and you get my professor at uni. Watching his classes was actual torture
rockerface 🇺🇦One of my teachers at uni used a Word document instead of a presentation. And yes, he still read it word for word. It was like a very shitty audiobook
Alternatively, the best live audio textbook performance ever
Or Bob the boomer goes can you go back 3 slides?
There was a guy, I shit you not, that would ask him to go back to the previous slide cause he wasn’t done writing it down
Like bro, i’m almost sure the professor will post the pp online. You dont have to copy the presentation… take shorthand notes…
Nah, he didnt post the presentation online. Still, the slides were worthless and had nothing of value on them, the entire class was really a waste of time, no reason to copy anything
Bob The Boomer may have been passive-aggressively trolling the presenter. “I’m not in here with you, you’re in here with me” kind of thing.
How anyone even remotely thinks they should do this boggles my mind.
MxM111I don’t think they think, to be honest.
Oh no my kid’s school just texted me he got a fever I have to go. Hate to miss the presentation, can you post the slides in chat after? Thx!
can you post the slides in chat after?
Can you post the highlights in chat after?
Someone who gives a presentation like this is incapable of summarizing - you will be getting the full presentation.
Fuck you. Nothing to do with your comment. just because of good etiquette
Select all.
Copy.
Open ChatGPT.
"Please sum up the following in a tweet: "
Paste.
Submit.
Sure! Here’s what I got: Innovation and synergy are good. We should do them.
Oh thats fine. We’ll have a make up presentation on thursday, i’ll schedule you for that one.
jsheradinEven if I'm only presenting a handful of slides I'll slap some blank ones on the end just to make everyone sweat over "Slide 1 of 83". Everyone is pretty darn quiet and glad to help speed things along most of the time.
That’s genius!
No, I think it is cruel and unusual punishment.
Do you give presentations to people on whom this works more than once?
Ya got to mix it up, sometimes you really do have an 83 page slide deck.
FuglyDuckDon’t forget the random slides of pet photos.
“now how did THAT get in there?”
CDR time!
(except I’ve had CDRs that were scheduled for a full work week, 40 hours)
What is this CDR you speak of? Like blank CDs?
ripcordCanada’s Drag Race? Corel DRaw? Climate Data Record? Carbon Dioxide Removal??
Man, Carbon Dioxide Removal for a full week…
Critical Design Review?
That’s the one I’m familiar with. But the sides themselves are super useful a few years later when you can’t remember what in the world you were thinking.
I looked it up. Commission on Dietetic Registration. Or possibly Colorado Department of Revenue. Or Chadron Municipal Airport (airport designation CDR) in Chadron, Nebraska.
Definitely one of those.
Ahhhhh, makes sense.
Critical Design Review. In aerospace engineering, it happens when drawings and software are substantially complete, but before starting to cut metal. The goal is to provide some assurance that the design will actually comply with the system requirements.
CDRs are usually presented as a single PowerPoint deck that can run to thousands of slides, with many presenters and dozens of review panel members.
Interesting! I operate fully outside of the realm of aerospace engineering, so this is news to me. I take it this is an opportunity for anyone to speak up if they have any concerns with any aspect of the design before it moves to the production phase?
Exactly so.
apocalypticatYou had a 40-hour Colonoscopy Debris Removal procedure? Big ups to you!
Have you ever been to an office meeting that turned out to be a CEO circlejerk that dragged on for hours?
But a friend of mine went to the grandaddy of them all, something about state politics, some ambitious asshole making a power play and filibustering for an entire day, he had come prepared specifically to wear everyone down, I think he was trying to approve a new set of rules and conditions that benefitted his position, something along those lines.
FredselfishCEO of our company does one every single Friday at lunch over zoom. Luckily I have never attended. But my boss does has to eat his lunch while listening to CEO talk about all the ways they doing great when we aren’t.
Friday lunch meeting over zoom 💀
“Oh, well, nobody’s doing anything during their lunch break, so I’m sure it’ll be fine to schedule a meeting during it.”
If they’re paying for lunch, I’m fine with it. If not, I’m not fine. My lunch is my time to recharge for the rest of the workday.
My manager is salary so they work them like slaves. He works 6.30am to 4.30p every day and even answers emails while vacation.
I’ve had a CEO like that. I call it the sunshine and smoke up your ass meeting.
If somebody did that, I’d disapprove of those rules out of pure spite.
Lets hope they forgot to run spellcheck
Ugh, I always tell students to avoid this.
That said it reminds me of Larry David on Conan podcast of how he got out of a movie test screening. “I’ve got one question and then I’ve gotta go…”.
Ah, treasures, both of them.
smowtenshiI remember back in high school my teachers would always warn students for doing presentations like that, yet all of them did exactly the same thing. And it was even worse in university, when we had to listen to 2 hours presentation read word by word with monotone voice.
Yup! I even tell them to experiment a little because they get full points either way (my logic is, the social pressure alone is enough to get a good effort, and usually that’s true lol).
It’s because they didn’t trust their ability to remember stuff. But when I lecture, I’m often elaborating beyond the bulletpoints, engaging my audience with questions, making eye contact, etc, so it’s not like I’m not setting a good example. I guess my university it’s just too late to teach?
Hug the monotone voice is the worst. A colleague of mine does that. If you are making a presentation and you sound bored all the way through, guess how your audience is going to feel?
AnUnusualRelicIf you sound too enthusiastic, you might wake people up.
Wakes up
-Wait a minute… you’re full of shit!
At university, I had a lecturer who took this one step further. Instead of a power point, he used a word document that he read word by word.
legere (lat) to read => lectura (lat) the reading event => lecture (en) => lecturer (en) a person giving/hosting a reading event.
A lecturer is supposed to read the text of a book to students so that they are able to write it down and obtain a copy of it for themselves.
Books written by professional scribes are incredible expensive, and this new thing they established in Bologna in 1088 – the so called “universities” offering lectures will be a major breakthrough in the history of mankind to distribute knowledge!
Good to know some professors still honour the only true way of teaching.
Pfff this generation is wasting good expensive sheets of paper when good old oral tradition has worked for thousands of years. Writing was invented only 4000 years ago and still haven’t caught on.
𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮Oral tradition always had this sound to it, you know traditional
it’s a fad, like medicine
A lecturer is supposed to read the text of a book to students so that they are able to write it down and obtain a copy of it for themselves.
Does this still happen, with digital and all?