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vodkat
Jun 30, 2012



cannot legally be sold as vodka
this is a good thread. reading about your terrible online meetings makes me feel better about my terrible life choices :unsmith:

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BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

hmm, those crazy Italians

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

mishaq posted:

we scheduled a bluejeans meeting this morning because someone has used bluejeans with this customer previously and we didn't want to give them yet another conferencing system to fumble around with


half of the customer side attendees couldnt get it to work, we switched to skype for business, lost 15 minutes doing this

did you go from your skype 4 business 2 their skype 4 business or did they come in on some external 3rd party thing that connects to ur skype 4 business? I haven't done much research on it but seems to me the ability to have connectivity between organizations who are both using skype 4 business would be good.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Shaggar posted:

did you go from your skype 4 business 2 their skype 4 business or did they come in on some external 3rd party thing that connects to ur skype 4 business? I haven't done much research on it but seems to me the ability to have connectivity between organizations who are both using skype 4 business would be good.

that ability exists

it's called "ditch Lync and just use regular skype"

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

types in the chat window "ok so you need to be on the dial in from the invite text, if you clicked join now and joined that voice line we arent on that because lol it is 1997"

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



maniacdevnull posted:

types in the chat window "ok so you need to be on the dial in from the invite text, if you clicked join now and joined that voice line we arent on that because lol it is 1997"

*dials into call, but doesn't click invite to group chat for screen share*

'can someone invite me? i missed the group invite! i cant see anything'

*a dozen people try to get the employee id, send multiple invites, and ask if they could manually spell their name over the conference line*

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Agile Vector posted:

*dials into call, but doesn't click invite to group chat for screen share*

'can someone invite me? i missed the group invite! i cant see anything'

*a dozen people try to get the employee id, send multiple invites, and ask if they could manually spell their name over the conference line*

uggggggggggg

"we do it this way because using the tool the right way is just so dern complicated!"

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

yesterday i had my first conference call with a significant number of people involved, and the first 10 minutes was exactly like that conference call simulator website, with the confusion, muffled audio, and mute button requests. someone was playing pokemon or something and you could hear all the beeps and boops. after a while someone who was apparently on their phone in the car rolled the window down, so whooshing noise drowned out the presenter for a couple minutes.

the meeting ran over an hour, was about our terrible insurance plan, and centered around a powerpoint. the presenter couldn't figure out how to screen share, so instead we watched a black screen while they described what the slides looked like.

Bhodi
Dec 9, 2007

Oh, it's just a cat.
Pillbug
all three of the conference rooms on this floor now have inactive or non-working phone conferencing. Over the course of the year we've seen it's failed and rescheduled our weekly team meeting in one, then another, and finally the largest 20 person room

we walk in there today and the ipad thing is broken, good job telecommunications company your IT is worthless, now we have to go to another floor like refugees

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


all companies that would list telecoms as their primary focus are unbelievably awful at IT

Arcsech
Aug 5, 2008
in a multi-site conference call/presentation right now, the call is hooked up to the room speakers and is absurdly loud

every 3-5 minutes there's this really loud noise over the speakers like somebody is playing sound effects of people getting punched and/or breaking glass. i wonder if one of our remote workers is getting murdered

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Thanks Ants posted:

all companies that would list telecoms as their primary focus are unbelievably awful

Arcsech
Aug 5, 2008

Roosevelt posted:

yesterday i had my first conference call with a significant number of people involved, and the first 10 minutes was exactly like that conference call simulator website, with the confusion, muffled audio, and mute button requests. someone was playing pokemon or something and you could hear all the beeps and boops. after a while someone who was apparently on their phone in the car rolled the window down, so whooshing noise drowned out the presenter for a couple minutes.

the meeting ran over an hour, was about our terrible insurance plan, and centered around a powerpoint. the presenter couldn't figure out how to screen share, so instead we watched a black screen while they described what the slides looked like.

this is perfect

it's like the platonic ideal of a conference call

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Arcsech posted:

this is perfect

it's like the platonic ideal of a conference call

or platos cave

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



i mean minus the shadows of course. instead he just describes the concept of shadows. eventually the lights turn out due to inactivity and everyone is left to find meaning in the static of the unmuted mic

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

Roosevelt posted:

we watched a black screen while they described what the slides looked like.

lmao

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Roosevelt posted:

yesterday i had my first conference call with a significant number of people involved, and the first 10 minutes was exactly like that conference call simulator website, with the confusion, muffled audio, and mute button requests. someone was playing pokemon or something and you could hear all the beeps and boops. after a while someone who was apparently on their phone in the car rolled the window down, so whooshing noise drowned out the presenter for a couple minutes.

the meeting ran over an hour, was about our terrible insurance plan, and centered around a powerpoint. the presenter couldn't figure out how to screen share, so instead we watched a black screen while they described what the slides looked like.

Goldmine

qntm
Jun 17, 2009

Roosevelt posted:

instead we watched a black screen while they described what the slides looked like

I guess we don't have a pièce de résistance emoticon

Visual GNUdio
Aug 27, 2003


FPS_Sage posted:

*leaves email open full screen when starting WebEx*

*Everyone else squints trying read subject lines looking for juicy gossip*

i love when my customers do this so i can see who else they're doing business with.

i used to work with a shady gently caress that would just hang out on customer conference bridges, idling for the next meeting(s) to get the inside scoop on internal projects.

IT sales is a dirty biz...

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Roosevelt posted:

yesterday i had my first conference call with a significant number of people involved, and the first 10 minutes was exactly like that conference call simulator website, with the confusion, muffled audio, and mute button requests. someone was playing pokemon or something and you could hear all the beeps and boops. after a while someone who was apparently on their phone in the car rolled the window down, so whooshing noise drowned out the presenter for a couple minutes.

the meeting ran over an hour, was about our terrible insurance plan, and centered around a powerpoint. the presenter couldn't figure out how to screen share, so instead we watched a black screen while they described what the slides looked like.

excellent

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Shaggar posted:

did you go from your skype 4 business 2 their skype 4 business or did they come in on some external 3rd party thing that connects to ur skype 4 business? I haven't done much research on it but seems to me the ability to have connectivity between organizations who are both using skype 4 business would be good.

the customer used their own Skype for business which was easy to connect to but trying to present was a struggle, even after they explicitly made me a "presenter" instead of an "attendee", which is the default permission for someone outside your organization

lost more time dealing with that

also gently caress who ever's idea it was to use blue jeans when the customer uses skype for business like we do normally

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Thanks Ants posted:

all companies that would list telecoms as their primary focus are unbelievably awful at IT

that's because telecoms are run by dumb as gently caress people

Clockwerk
Apr 6, 2005


okay, I'm recording this meeting, we can start now

*60 minutes later*

oh, it stopped recording past the first 30 seconds. we might have to do this again tomorrow with biz present so they can see what we've done

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


Arcsech posted:

in a multi-site conference call/presentation right now, the call is hooked up to the room speakers and is absurdly loud

every 3-5 minutes there's this really loud noise over the speakers like somebody is playing sound effects of people getting punched and/or breaking glass. i wonder if one of our remote workers is getting murdered

someone once dialled into one i was on from home as it was late evening there and half way through the call forgot to mute themself so we got a massive blast of what i think was either lock stock and two smoking barrels or snatch because there was a sudden 'YOU STUPID BASTARD, FACK ORRRRRRFFFFFF *gunshots*' from their tv.

the next week there was a toilet flush half way through the call and someone in new york went "WHO WAS THAT?" and us in europe all looked at each and went "errr, we're all in the same room so....."

the other one we used to get a lot was people dialling in from the street in mumbai and it would just be non stop horns blasting everyones eardrums apart.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
I had someone dial in from an office next to a construction site with their window open, that was fun

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


polycom have a noise reduction technology and it's incredibly good. but most people join conferences with poo poo hardware so welp

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Thanks Ants posted:

polycom have a noise reduction technology and it's incredibly good. but most people join conferences with poo poo hardware so welp

the poo poo hardware is my desktop phone :smithicide:

double ohm seven
Jul 14, 2016
many moons ago I used to do remote training for our really lovely, really expensive image analysis tool.

my standard procedure was to use the example pictures in Windows xp because they're always there and they're always the same.

since the client was hosting the demo on their end I always asked before I went in there because I had to go through the My Pictures route. well, one call went like this.

"I need some images to analyze, do you min of I use the sample pictures in My Pictures?"

"yeah sure, go ahead... NBNNNLOOOoo"

*content of my pictures flash on the screen, revealing 2000 really misogynic porn*

his invite to the follow up lesson bounced, "no such address" lol

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
i haven't done a conference call that didn't include video in like 7 years it's p great

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

double ohm seven posted:

many moons ago I used to do remote training for our really lovely, really expensive image analysis tool.

my standard procedure was to use the example pictures in Windows xp because they're always there and they're always the same.

since the client was hosting the demo on their end I always asked before I went in there because I had to go through the My Pictures route. well, one call went like this.

"I need some images to analyze, do you min of I use the sample pictures in My Pictures?"

"yeah sure, go ahead... NBNNNLOOOoo"

*content of my pictures flash on the screen, revealing 2000 really misogynic porn*

his invite to the follow up lesson bounced, "no such address" lol

Lmao

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Agile Vector posted:

the poo poo hardware is my desktop phone :smithicide:

same, my desk phone is literally older than i am

vodkat
Jun 30, 2012



cannot legally be sold as vodka

carry on then posted:

same, my desk phone is literally older than i am

lol :smith:

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

double ohm seven posted:

many moons ago I used to do remote training for our really lovely, really expensive image analysis tool.

my standard procedure was to use the example pictures in Windows xp because they're always there and they're always the same.

since the client was hosting the demo on their end I always asked before I went in there because I had to go through the My Pictures route. well, one call went like this.

"I need some images to analyze, do you min of I use the sample pictures in My Pictures?"

"yeah sure, go ahead... NBNNNLOOOoo"

*content of my pictures flash on the screen, revealing 2000 really misogynic porn*

his invite to the follow up lesson bounced, "no such address" lol

Why would someone put porn on their work pc anyway?

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
yall get ready, the quarterly yospos conference call is coming up.

i'll have a bridge running off my asterisk box we can dial into, and there may be a webex

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Jonny 290 posted:

yall get ready, the quarterly yospos conference call is coming up.

i'll have a bridge running off my asterisk box we can dial into, and there may be a webex

my various client apps are ready *unchecks mute and moves next to active garbage disposal*

30 TO 50 FERAL HOG
Mar 2, 2005



can't wait

DrPossum
May 15, 2004

i am not a surgeon

maniacdevnull posted:

Why would someone put porn on their work pc anyway?

the good and innovative people in the pornographic industrial complex don't appreciate your narrowmindedness. rude

double ohm seven
Jul 14, 2016

maniacdevnull posted:

Why would someone put porn on their work pc anyway?

very

carefully

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
Monday clusterfucks, best clusterfucks.

:munch:

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indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

double ohm seven posted:

"yeah sure, go ahead... NBNNNLOOOoo"

there's no worse feeling in the world than knowing you just snitched on yourself. but who keeps porn in "My Pictures," wtf

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