Teams pretends it's an app that can do a lot of things at once but for literally all of the things it pretends to be good at it is the worst possible choice.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

At my office, it works flawlessly for what we use it for, which is video conferences and chat. We don't mess with the workspaces and stuff.

The only thing I truly hate about it is that you can't export a log of a chat. As a government worker, I'm waiting for the lawsuit over Open Records over the lack of that feature.

[–] Grtz78@feddit.org 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

random switching of audio devices
users end up in different rooms when they join the same meeting
substellar editing of planned meetings
marking messages as read without the user ever clicking on the channel

and let me not start with the android client or the non existing support for linux users

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I've never run across any of that. There must be some implementation issue that affects some companies and not others, because the 2 places I've worked since Teams took over everything have been flawless on all of that (except for Linux- and I really don't care about that from a business perspective where everyone is going to use Windows).

[–] Grtz78@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Is your company the one with the golden fax machine that always flawlessly sends an recieves?

No seriously. We are a tech heavy company. The only not tech savvy persons are law and HR (in numbers: two people). Same for most of our customers. And I hear this shit break left and right several times a day. I wonder what your company does right that nearly every other one does wrong. Probably restricting this bloatware enough to make it work.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I work in municipal government.

Microsoft does have a separate government- specific subscription with slightly different features, and that may be part of it.

The most annoying part of the government system is that it only allows one MS account to be logged in on a mobile device, so for people with accounts in multiple municipalities (e.g. county officials needing access to permitting data from several cities), they need a different device for each system.

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Such as?

I use teams all the time at work and it seems to do what it needs to do well. Calls/meetings work wel, chatting works well. It's not perfect, but more than good enough.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 19 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds like it's working great for you- I wish it would for me too! I'm not OP but some of my main gripes are:

Most calls have, for at least one caller, a wierd lag time where the call doesn't start for 10 seconds or so
Quite frequently (I'd guess 5 calls a month) a call will be disrupted by teams failing completely for someone on the call (camera not working, not being able to join etc)
It uses a lot of RAM even when idling
It has hundreds of features, like "together mode" that bloat the software without adding to its core functionality
The UI is a confused mess, and the conceptual split between teams, channels and chats is messyat best.

On top of that, I don't find teams makes me more productive, if feels like a constant distraction that modern corporate culture requires me to have, even though its a net drop in productivity. This last point is more on instant messengers as a whole, but it doesn't place me in a very charitable or forgiving mindset for interpretting Team' multitude of flaws.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

We don’t get that lag but we do frequently get it when the camera doesn’t work for somebody.

I really can’t understand the separation between teams, channels and chats. We almost never use anything other than group chats.

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago

We indeed never encounter the technical issues. A couple of years ago teams had issues with images in chats, but that's the only technical issue i encountered.

And yeah, it's got the usual bloat, but it's not hard to ignore all the useless features. But indeed, if you have issues with calls, that sounds annoying.