Let’s not forget that all “return to office” mandates are really just a way for the C-suite to reduce headcount while appearing strong/decisive, avoiding negative press (and therefore spooking investors), and not having to pay severance.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a big fan of Teams. The fact that the software is named after a common organizational unit, and also a feature within the software is named after that same thing, is insane. Also, I haven’t seen such an unnecessary resource hog since the original Microsoft Edge.

[–] Cruel@programming.dev 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I blame people more than Microsoft. People were either duped or too lazy to say "Microsoft Teams" in full. It's not too crazy to have services like "Apple Music" because people aren't allowing Apple to control the word by just saying "Music" casually. People need to go back to saying "Microsoft Teams." Alas, it will never happen. 😒

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 16 points 1 week ago

"Microsoft" is too many syllables to say every time, "Apple" isn't.

[–] mr_satan@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

I've taken to say Fucking Teams™. Our company has Slack and our client uses Fucking Teams™ and it's a constant meme of audio not working, sharing not working, notifications not working, etc.

I just hate the thing. It's inferior in every way except that it's dirt cheap for the client and it's already there with office suite.

Office suite is another pet peeve of mine when it comes to sharing information. Just make a PDF! Do not share your .docx file. Half of my team don't even have an office suite installed. So we get 3 or 4 different renditions of the same document depending on where we open it in (Libre, Word regular, Word web, Google docs). Just make a god damn PDF!

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Ms Teams is popular in my experience

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