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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Even though I do run my meetings thru the studio audio sometimes just to make my co-workers jealous I thought I was the only one who ran my Royer R-10 through an EMI channel strip and juuuuust a touch of reverb for my weekly standup every now and then.
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just lol if you don't use an autotune for your meetings in other news, job decided to take away the wfh that my team has had forever, despite my team being the highest performing in the company. I've developed some anxiety issues, which makes coming into the office every day a no-go. I just got my letter from the doc saying its probably not safe for me to drive to work every day just in time for them to relocate the office to an area with laughable public transit
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Agrikk posted:I thought I was the only one who ran my Royer R-10 through an EMI channel strip and juuuuust a touch of reverb for my weekly standup every now and then. I run my mic thru an Avalon preamp and a Chandler Ltd Germanium sometimes. It's such overkill, especially as compressed as the audio is on a meeting stream, but lol  RFC2324 posted:just lol if you don't use an autotune for your meetings Haha, oh poo poo, that's what I should do next. RFC2324 posted:in other news, job decided to take away the wfh that my team has had forever, despite my team being the highest performing in the company. I've developed some anxiety issues, which makes coming into the office every day a no-go. I just got my letter from the doc saying its probably not safe for me to drive to work every day just in time for them to relocate the office to an area with laughable public transit Geezus, that's a terrible policy. Some parts of my company have been rumbling about that, but my boss lives 2 hours from the office and has a good track record of telling upper management to gently caress off with bad ideas, so I have some confidence in him keeping poo poo running status quo. Can you use the doctor's recommendation as a bargaining chip?
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Jul 8, 2019 04:06
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I know there are people here who work from home with kids, does anyone have experience soundproofing a home office? I'm reading mixed reviews of stuff like that soundproofing foam. My job involves a lot of being on the phone and occasionally I can WFH when needed, but a place that I might be staying has a baby, and I really don't want a crying baby coming over the phone on a business call. Foam relies on thickness to muffle sound, and muffles higher frequency sounds much better than lower frequency ones. If you don’t have space for foam and want something that will kill across a broader sound range, look at the sound deafening material they make for cars. It’s a thin sheet like mat with a sticky side, and uses high density and heavy weight to reduce sound passing through. It’ll be pricier, but can be very effective if you don’t mind glueing something to your wall. You could also look at the cork board wall sheet ( goes under the brand walltalker ) as a sound deadened with some utility You can also get sheetrock for sound deadening in various grades and abilities, but it means redoing all the drywall. You will also need to investigate sound gaps, like poorly fitting doors, vents, cheap window fittings, empty ceiling space, etc.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I run my mic thru an Avalon preamp and a Chandler Ltd Germanium sometimes. It's such overkill, especially as compressed as the audio is on a meeting stream, but lol Almost everyone in the company thinks its a terrible idea, and my boss was laughing when I told him I was talking to my doc about it because half the team is likely to follow suit, making the whole policy counterproductive because now we have the ammo to push back if they want to use it as a "behave or we take it away" the way they have before. And yeah, either they work with me like they said they would or becomes an ADA issue, since I have a C-PTSD diagnosis, one of my coworkers has a PTSD diagnosis as a combat vet, and at least one other person has fairly severe social anxiety issues. I'm just the first one to realize we CAN push back.
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RFC2324 posted:Almost everyone in the company thinks its a terrible idea, and my boss was laughing when I told him I was talking to my doc about it because half the team is likely to follow suit, making the whole policy counterproductive because now we have the ammo to push back if they want to use it as a "behave or we take it away" the way they have before. Keep fighting the good fight. The only way we get rights as workers is to explain what we want and not be satisfied til we get it.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Keep fighting the good fight. The only way we get rights as workers is to explain what we want and not be satisfied til we get it. poo poo, I am not reliably safe to drive. I am not risking my life by driving into work while I am dissociating, and if they have a problem with that I'll just have to lawyer up. I doubt I will, I accidentally got the HR director involved and he's being super cool about it, so hopefully they see its in their own best interest not make the allowance.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I know there are people here who work from home with kids, does anyone have experience soundproofing a home office? I'm reading mixed reviews of stuff like that soundproofing foam. My job involves a lot of being on the phone and occasionally I can WFH when needed, but a place that I might be staying has a baby, and I really don't want a crying baby coming over the phone on a business call. First things first, get the loudest mechanical keyboard possible. Place your mic close to that while on speakerphone. That is apparently what my boss does.
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CitizenKain posted:First things first, get the loudest mechanical keyboard possible. Place your mic close to that while on speakerphone. That is apparently what my boss does. I didn't think any of my coworkers were goons
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Jul 8, 2019 06:47
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The Fool posted:I didn't think any of my coworkers were goons apparently we all work together
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RFC2324 posted:I doubt I will, I accidentally got the HR director involved and he's being super cool about it, so hopefully they see its in their own best interest not make the allowance. HR are like cops. They're not on your side and are not to be trusted. Good luck though.
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You can get soundabsorbing pictures that might be a good idea. Whatever you do for soundproofing, make sure you consider fire safety. Foam burns REALLY well, and you are double screwed if you muffle out the fire alarm.
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Ranter posted:HR are like cops. They're not on your side and are not to be trusted. Good luck though. ehhh, they aren't on my side, but I wouldn't say they are cops. they don't routinely murder people, for one
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Unfortunately saying no to the people that sign your paychecks and are told all day that their poo poo doesn’t stink can be difficult. On the plus side I got to say "the situation is: it's not loving happening" when someone came down to the office to chase up an update on a whitelisting request last week. A loving moronic whitelisting request. RFC2324 posted:ehhh, they aren't on my side, but I wouldn't say they are cops. they don't routinely murder people, for one 
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GreenNight posted:Eh just cover all your walls with cork. http://www.corkstore.com/Products/3D-Acoustic-Wall-Designs This stuff looks good, smells like a smoky bourbon barrel and works very well to dampen sound with just a few panels.
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Jul 8, 2019 13:19
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RFC2324 posted:poo poo, I am not reliably safe to drive. I am not risking my life by driving into work while I am dissociating, and if they have a problem with that I'll just have to lawyer up. Good luck. If some old fucker in the c suite wants butts in the seats while he puts in his 20 hour work week, he is going to get it. If you are going to hold your ground, prepare for the worst.
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Jul 8, 2019 14:35
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Guys... I almost just told someone to "revert" to someone. Admittedly it was one third party service desk trying to pawn work off onto me which should have gone to a different third party service desk, so it aaaalmost makes sense but... still 
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Sickening posted:Good luck. If some old fucker in the c suite wants butts in the seats while he puts in his 20 hour work week, he is going to get it. If you are going to hold your ground, prepare for the worst. There is a magical phrase that even c-levels respect; "Open to liability".
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Neddy Seagoon posted:There is a magical phrase that even c-levels respect; "Open to liability". I don't think working from home has a lot of protections unfortunately. I would also not overestimate an executives fear of liability either.
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Jul 8, 2019 15:36
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Say the liability word and HR will find out you were 5 minutes late 3 times and can your rear end.
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Christ, what hellscapes do you all work at? And before you say, "welcome to America", I work in the US as well and have never experienced this level of hostility to accommodate people who need it.
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Proteus Jones posted:Christ, what hellscapes do you all work at? There is a limit to what employers will reliably accommodate. While I definitely see there is special cases where working from home would greatly help people to work more effectively that need it, its still considered a perk and not a right for most places. I don't really see that as hellscapish. Dumb? Petty? Inefficient? Absolutely.
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Jul 8, 2019 16:11
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Day 1 of using Teams instead of Skype for Business It's new. It's different. I hate it. If you need me, I'll be outside yelling at clouds.
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CollegeCop posted:Day 1 of using Teams instead of Skype for Business :sadclod:
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CollegeCop posted:Day 1 of using Teams instead of Skype for Business Uh, while I'm generally unhappy with teams after coming from slack, it is still an improvement over the hot garbage that is SfB.
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rafikki posted:Uh, while I'm generally unhappy with teams after coming from slack, it is still an improvement over the hot garbage that is SfB. Yes, but I knew how to use SfB. I kinda understood SfB. Teams is new. And different. And therefore, bad.
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Outlook: Hey, your laptop lost connection, can you sign in again? <close dialog>, <click send/receive>, <outlook realizes connection is ok and secured and picks up where it left off> Teams: Hey, your laptop lost connection, can you sign in again? <close dialog>, <teams window grays out> can you sign in again?, <signin process fails>, <force quit>, <restart teams> Teams is poo poo and nobody will be able to convince me otherwise. It's horrible total utter garbage and it can gently caress off and die in a fire.
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Let's pick this super specific issue that the majority of users never experience and declare the entire product poo poo. Am I on the internet? Yes, looks like it
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I'm kinda glad we don't use anything like Teams, Slack, Skype, etc... at my company. While we are a company with 300+ employees, the corp office is less than 20 people in the same building. The rest of our employees are not in front of a computer 90% of the time, and nearly every computer in the company is shared access, with exception of those at the corp office. Things like Slack, Teams, Skype, etc... are useless to us. We use email a gently caress ton though since it works well with the way we operate.
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Kyrosiris posted:I dunno that I'd call having issues gracefully handling connectivity loss a "super specific" issue. I use teams in super intermittent connectivity areas with no issues, and same with a number of my users. If it was actually a common issue, we'd hear about it more often, but instead the big internet complaint about Teams that I see the most often is "OMG MY SCREEN REAL ESTATE" stevewm posted:I'm kinda glad we don't use anything like Teams, Slack, Skype, etc... at my company. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/01/09/3-new-ways-microsoft-teams-empowers-firstline-workers-to-achieve-more/ Data Graham posted:That weird obscure corner case of "sleeping my laptop" Like I said, it's not a thing that happens to most people. The Fool fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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That weird obscure corner case of “sleeping my laptop”
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The Fool posted:
Eh.. Mostly marketing wank. And examples of poo poo we have zero use for in our environment. Hell more than half our employees don't even have email addresses, because there is zero business reason for them to.
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stevewm posted:Eh.. Mostly marketing wank. And examples of poo poo we have zero use for in our environment. I would like to get paid solely via "Praise Badges".
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The Fool posted:
Actually, so far this really is my biggest complaint. SfB lived happily in the lower right corner of my second screen, happily sharing space with my Call Queue Dashboard, Outlook, and my Avaya softphone. Teams requires twice the space to show the same information. So now I have to totally revamp my window layout and relearn where everything is. First World IT problems.
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CollegeCop posted:Actually, so far this really is my biggest complaint. Sounds like a business case for an additional monitor. You can never have too many monitors. https://imgur.com/IoQ5mu8 cage-free egghead fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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My main complaint with Teams is that I wish switching between Chats / Team channels was a bit snappier. Otherwise it's a big improvement HipChat and it was super each to get the department and then the rest of the org on board.
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Will Teams still randomly steal your cursor focus for no good reason whatsoever, so while you think you're typing your password into an RDP login window, you have actually just IM'd it to Karen in Finance and now have to awkwardly tell her to "oh whoops ignore that  " and go quickly change it for the 3rd time in a month? No I'm obviously not still annoyed by this even though its been almost 2 years since I last used S4B.S4B 
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- Office move - Nobody tells IT - A Ticket Came In - "Urgent! I need an extra long ethernet cord to run up and around a door frame."
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Sirotan posted:Will Teams still randomly steal your cursor focus for no good reason whatsoever, so while you think you're typing your password into an RDP login window, you have actually just IM'd it to Karen in Finance and now have to awkwardly tell her to "oh whoops ignore that I've never had that happen with Teams on my Windows system. Honestly, my biggest complaints are "it's weirdly slow switching conversations" and "you have to wait for it to load chat history if you scroll up". Everything else works fine. But everyone at the office who uses Teams on Mac has never-ending problems.
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