Mentions (8)
"Thanks for creating Facebook and Microsoft teams though, good shit."
"I opened Microsoft Teams, saw a few messages from my project manager, and got on with my day. It is usually tough for me to stay motivated working remotely, and I always end up going on Twitter to post."
"kind of impressed they managed to put all the circles of hell in one place. must have really gone out of their way, gathering them together, restitching the laws of physics so they could rest on top of each other like this."
"On the one hand, it's basically a 90 minute giga-ad for Amazon, Microsoft Teams, Facebook, Whatsapp, Teamviewer, Zoom, Google, Fox News, Staples, Spotify, and many more. That alone makes it an interesting case study in pushing the limits of product placement."
"However, she has decided to use the custom out of office status in microsoft teams to display her pronouns. Now, literally every time you're in a meeting with her or messaging her, you get a big notification on the screen just reminding you that she's they/them now, whereas this feature is supposed "
"Is that you have to keep your little teams status green and be available pretty much immediately if someone contacts you. The panopticon, that is teams statuses, traps you into mindlessly scrolling all day because you can't really do anything else that requires full concentration."
"How fucked would I be if from here on I replied to Teams/Outlook msgs with only the black thumbs up? Like my employer couldn't actually do anything could they?"
"It's exciting. The developers probably put the "spotlight for everyone" button right under it on purpose. It's as thrilling and dangerous as playing Russian roulette in the era of the fake email job, but instead of the click of a revolver it's the click of the trackpad of a cheap DELL laptop."