Now imagine being a freelance developer, who works for more than two clients, using Teams with different email addresses.
It’s a horror!
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I just dont understand how any company can use a product as broken as teams.
ad_on_is@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TheFonz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s me, but with four different clients. Have to switch between accounts all the time. It’s hell.
i2ndshenanigans@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I use teams for work and have not had a single problem in the almost three years I’ve been with the company. We have teams phones and pretty much all teams licensing. I’ve had lots of problems with zoom and go to meeting. Especially with GoToMeeting when I was managing a citrix environment.
dojan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve been using it daily for two years and I’ve had pretty much nothing but problems. It’ll sit in the background and sleep or something, and then I’ll get five hundred messages dropping in all at once. I put teams on my work phone on the side so I can see if someone messages me.
Sometimes messages don’t come through on the PC client, but they can be sent from it, meaning if I look at a chat on my phone it looks normal, but on my PC it looks like I’m talking to myself.
Video calls make all the shadows in the OS flicker. There’s a lot of shadows now, never gave them a second thought before.
The app has a tendency to spontaneously log me out during things, and then refuse to log back in unless I reboot.
Sometimes it doesn’t detect my camera or microphone.
Sometimes during calls the buttons stop working. If I’m sharing my desktop, I can’t stop sharing. If I’m muted, I can’t unmute myself. If my video is off, I can’t turn it on. If I want to close the rubbish and restart, I’ll need to go through task manager.
Not a big fan.
Waker@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m wondering what kind of PCs people are using? I’ve never had most of your issues and I’ve been using teams pretty much daily for the past 3~4 years.
Not saying teams is perfect. UI is an absolute clusterfuck and it’s kinda heavy…
Sentient_Modem@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Heavy is due to it running its own web server in the application (electron). The issues are more so due to the OS and how the company manages patches. Or firewalls/routing. Migrating to a new VPN appliance when my company was purchased brought up a handful of similar issues. Solution was trash profiles set in the VPN appliance.
Sentient_Modem@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Heavy is due to it running its own web server in the application (electron). The issues are more so due to the OS and how the company manages patches. Or firewalls/routing. Migrating to a new VPN appliance when my company was purchased brought up a handful of similar issues. Solution was trash profiles set in the VPN appliance.
Sentient_Modem@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Heavy is due to it running its own web server in the application (electron). The issues are more so due to the OS and how the company manages patches. Or firewalls/routing. Migrating to a new VPN appliance when my company was purchased brought up a handful of similar issues. Solution was trash profiles set in the VPN appliance.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 months ago
[deleted]nogooduser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The comment was that Teams was broken which implies that they have problems with it so I think that was the question.
mysoulishome@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Using Teams at first I was annoyed it didn’t have some zoom features like video backgrounds or whatever…but after using it quite a while I do like it better. The problem for me is you never know what update is going to break something whenever updates are forced…for office and all of the other work software.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It integrates or something, idfk. Part of the Microsoft suite so we all get it by default. No, don’t ask why licenses just got more expensive, I promise its free.
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I can field this. The answer is simple: they don’t. They use Slack internally.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Which alternative do you propose?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Literally anything else except for zoom and teams.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I dont have issues with zoom. Its the least bad of all the VC services.
hedgehog@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
Really? I’d take Google’s offering or Teams over Zoom, especially if there’s a screen share involved
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Zoom requires the zoom app and has lots of security holes
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Literally anything else is a better option. Slack + zoom is orders of magnitude better.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I use teams very actively; we don’t have slack and I hate emails.
Honestly can’t remember last time I’ve had any issues.The app integration is awesome. It allows me to give non-technical people access to everything project related through a chat group. 15 pinned convo limit is nonsense though. Also would like to just be able to paste markdown straight in.
pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 7 months ago
It comes with the Office subscription. People who choose it are not the ones using it daily.
radix@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My company’s IT department tried to push Teams since we pay for it either way. The rest of the company revolted and stayed on Slack.
pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 7 months ago
I’ve been in an interview and the hiring manager wanted to have a call in Teams. Didn’t take that job.
spez@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This fucking mentality. “Let’s use this thing that’s free instead of paying 50 dollars/month, the people who have to work with this can get their asses fucked!”
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The business/work version of Teams isn’t free, you’re paying for it as part of the 365 subscription.
spez@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Oh, didn’t know that thanks! My comment is just school IT trauma lol.
decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
To be fair, slack price can reach up to thousands per month for very big companies.
That being said, teams is a ridiculous piece of software that is indeed broken.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah but very big companies should expect to spend thousands per months supporting their team
Waker@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fuck you spez
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It doesn’t even make sense in terms of numbers. If you’re paying people six figure salaries, that means they’re earning your company seven figures easy. If you increase the productivity of a person bringing in seven figures by 1%, that’s $10k minimum.
And yet they want to save like $13 per year to use a product that might cut their productivity by 5%