Paul Förster 
HP - Morepower@paulfoerster Mi tu😋
sNOWFLAKE ❄️ iNDUSTRIES@paulfoerster whats your alternative ?
@random_industries Quitting the job. 😝
Paul Armstrong@paulfoerster The thing that amazes me about Teams is that it's where information goes to die.
It's just too damn easy to lose stuff in Teams. Even conversations that we were only typing in a few minutes before somehow become challenging to find. I really don't know how they managed to make the UI so damn bad.
@psa It’s not only the UI. It starts with its launch. Selecting launch at login and start in the background will make it not throw its window in your face. That’s good. But it will hide in such a way that it doesn’t even have a Systray icon.
And as I said, that’s only starting. I could write books about its flaws by now. Everybody I know hates it.
@paulfoerster Oh yeah, I had issues with "restarting" it not having the intended effect. Until I realised that in order to actually shut it down, there's a background process that needs killing via task manager.
And the crashes, mostly partial so it's not clear that it's crashed until someone says they can no longer hear you.
The ability to lose info is just the one that bites me hard pretty much every day.
@psa Had a meeting today. I was confused by all those too many windows in addition to the ones I need for work.
i_give_u_worms@psa @paulfoerster it's like an alien space person got to look at browser tabs and got the shit beat out of them before they got back to the mothership to report on the innovation they were trying to steal that actually works
@psa @paulfoerster don't tell them exactly what's wrong they don't deserve help, the disease is obviously coming from inside the product, they tried to steal from and disrupt too many things at once
@i_give_u_worms @psa Whoever wrote Teams must have one beer too much. 🤣
@paulfoerster @psa
embrace
extend
extinguish
surveil
steal
sabotage
@i_give_u_worms @psa I‘ll quit my job in about seven years. That’ll do. 🤣
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦@paulfoerster I like Teams. I worked on a multistate team that all used RHEL. We had to communicate by phone, email, and pidgeon chat. Then a (limited) version of Teams came out for Linux. It made a world of difference, including letting us work from home.
@Methylcobalamin Then you’re the second person I know who likes it. 🤣 My boss does too…
KickDownCH@paulfoerster Wobei es heute eher Exchange ist, das wieder mal Probleme macht
Massimiliano Siddi@paulfoerster I‘m also quite annoyed sometimes by teams. It‘s our company‘s telephone software. And Cory Doctorow‘s “enshittification” can also be observed in teams. Every update has virtually written “fuck you, customer!” over it.
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The1goit @paulfoerster replace "me" with "any sane human being" and the meme would still work.
HoracioDos@paulfoerster Embrace what you cannot change, you must. MS Teams, ever present for you, it will be.
Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻
🇨🇦@horaciodos @paulfoerster
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-Dylan Thomas
@murdoc @paulfoerster
Rage, rage against the muting of the mic
Join, join each meeting of the night.
Green-lit my status stays; through every endless thread,
defiant, in MS Teams we fight!
Rage, rage against the muting of the mic
Join, join each meeting of the night.
Green-lit my status stays; through every endless thread,
defiant, in MS Teams we fight!
Michael Vilain@paulfoerster Back when I was still looking for a job, recruiters wanted my LinkEdIn and Voip IDs. After using Teams briefly while at Intel, I can concur with this assessment.
Leo 🇲🇽@eco_amandine Tengo curiosidad... Yo aborrezco Teams por cómo es Microsoft Teams, ese odio no se extiende a todas las plataformas de videoconferencia...
¿Ustedes también? ¿O su odio es generalizado hacia las videoconferencias?
Xanatos 
@paulfoerster Just asked my company if I do get an additional 16 GB of RAM to run teams beside my IDE.
Sadly they said no.
GarretSidzaka@paulfoerster @nixCraft
Now that my PTO started I just uninstalled it
I can always reinstall some other day.... Or not 😁
@GarretSidzaka @nixCraft I can’t. It’s on my work computer. 😔 Lucky you. 🤣
@paulfoerster @nixCraft the joke is on me, I was talking about my cellphone teams. I don't open that laptop ever on vacation
@GarretSidzaka @nixCraft We can’t use Teams on the (work) cell phone. There are licensing restrictions and other requirements. But we have to use it on our work computers.
Privately? Never! Same for Windows in general. 🤣
Allan Chow@paulfoerster oh I'm stealing this one
@grumpasaurus You can’t. I already did. 😝
I found it somewhere on the web. Source unknown.
Plum Blossom@paulfoerster you don’t like spyware for genocide???
LouD@paulfoerster
Yes, thanks for posting a photo of me!
Yes, thanks for posting a photo of me!
@loudfpv Is this yours? Well, sorry for shamelessly posting it, but it‘s just too good to be held back.
@paulfoerster
no not mine lol, I meant that it's me in the bottom left picture 🤣
no not mine lol, I meant that it's me in the bottom left picture 🤣
@paulfoerster How many customers did Microsoft lose when they closed the church of Skype?
I still can't believe Yahoo Messenger was shut down it was a great msging service + was the last man standing that could manage video (MPEG1 even!) over an extremely low-bandwidth-intermittent connection. YM was an astonishingly good product - so rare to see things like this from a Silicon Valley company.
I still can't believe Yahoo Messenger was shut down it was a great msging service + was the last man standing that could manage video (MPEG1 even!) over an extremely low-bandwidth-intermittent connection. YM was an astonishingly good product - so rare to see things like this from a Silicon Valley company.
@nom I don’t know, but I know that I don’t like Skype either. I just don’t hate it as much as I hate Teams, though.
I don’t know Yahoo messenger.