Death by Teams

[AKCH01]

Sounds very Kingsman to me. Did you all wear Cutler and Gross spectacles?

Haha, no all in our own home offices with Oculus Quests using Horizon Workrooms. Give it a couple of years and we'll all be meeting that way and using fake internet money to buy things

 

[Alan Surrey]

Running 15 projects across West London hospitals, Teams is a great way of keeping in touch, spotting crocodiles as they approach a project and heading them off before they bite. All without the lost time of travelling.
But I have also ben in other people's two hour Teams meetings with 50 attendees. Numbing, even with the camera and microphone off.

 

[RodTungsten]

Only way to do some things: network engineers in FR, UK and BE with our firewall team in DE; customers and testers god knows where and carriers on the hook while I run the migration and work the fibres in the data centre ‘cos I live the closest.

 

[Ebenezer]

Only way to do some things: network engineers in FR, UK and BE with our firewall team in DE; customers and testers god knows where and carriers on the hook while I run the migration and work the fibres in the data centre ‘cos I live the closest.

"Work the fibres" - Sounds very cyber punk!
Eb

 

[makeshiftUK]

Only way to do some things: network engineers in FR, UK and BE with our firewall team in DE; customers and testers god knows where and carriers on the hook while I run the migration and work the fibres in the data centre ‘cos I live the closest.

Hopefully you're not having to order any new stuff from Cisco... lead-times on some of their stuff is incredible!

 

[CatmanV2]

Hopefully you're not having to order any new stuff from Cisco... lead-times on some of their stuff is incredible!

190 days we had the other day.....

C

 

[midlifecrisis]

Yes, so the conclusion is that Teams is terrible.

So fly for that meeting next time... preferably from Gatwick.

Thank you


*This is an unpaid promotion by the Airport's Association...

 

[schell70]

Yes, so the conclusion is that Teams is terrible.

So fly for that meeting next time... preferably from Gatwick.

Thank you


*This is an unpaid promotion by the Airport's Association...

I must say that I'm really missing business travel - highlight of last year was a day at BT's new office in Birmingham!

Having said that I took the Caledonian Sleeper just before Xmas for the first time ever and really enjoyed it - I think we should re-introduce flying boats with a smoking lounge and beds in the back - 3 days to go to Singapore would be lovely with fuel stops!

In fact I'm envious of my father who retired in the mid 80's - he had an empty desk, a Secretary (who did the typing and answered the desk phone) - and was home by 515pm everyday with nothing else to do until 9am the next morning. When he went on a business trip, it was a proper trip - 1 month in South Africa etc.

And he was working in Telecoms!

 

[AKCH01]

Hopefully you're not having to order any new stuff from Cisco... lead-times on some of their stuff is incredible!

Yep been like that for a while, I know people were ordering them from APAC regions and shipping them over, paying import tax again just to replace EoL hardware.