Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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I don't think I even know who John Caldwell is. Sounds like my ignorance won't diminish my life experience too much.
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Just a turkey voting for Christmas 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Phones guy isn't he?
Apparently Jim Ratcliffe has gone for Labour. I guess he doesn't have to worry about tax rises.
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3.5 weeks after having a minor cut surgically cleaned, it's still a mess. The infection is long gone which is why this is trivial, but it is mighty annoying nonetheless.
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I made a minor saddle adjustment last week. I've also worked on a couple of things with rowing to make that more comfortable.
I cycled pain free last week for the first time in ages. Fantastic.
Got out of bed this morning, felt a back muscle down my rib cage tear. Now hurts to breathe.
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Funny how they all feel the need to let everyone know this when it's fairly obvious which way the wind is blowing.
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Jumping onto the winning wagon. Our main wagon jumper has nailed himself to the mast too securely this time. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
He waited until the day Boris actually resigned as PM to say it was "probably time for a change" or something like that. Expect a similar statement on 5th July...
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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People that send messages using Teams instead of email.
God, that gets my f'king goat! Why? Email is a perfectly good platform to do this. We've been using it since 1994. It works. Teams is a f'king disaster. Sometimes the message is in a "chat"; other times it is within an "activity" and other times it's within a "team" of Teams. I spend longer looking for messages than reading them. I might add it's mostly female staff doing this.....
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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WTF are you on about it's "mostly female staff"?
- Genesis Croix de Fer
- Dolan Tuono0 -
What about those who send you an email and then send you a Teams message to tell you they have sent you an email..................Love em!
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I feel that you may not be fully embracing all aspects of modern working life.
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An observation on the typical gender that does this. I guess us males are more Luddites than we care to admit.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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Email? What’s wrong with handwritten memos and in-trays and out-trays an’ stuff….
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Or the telegram.
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I prefer threaded conversations within a project management platform (e.g. Asana). Can't be doing with CC To All 'conversations' on email... it's even worse than my 'date-based filing system' for bits of paper, not least as I don't have hundreds of bits of paper in the 'system' saying "I agree".
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Teams sends me emails to let me know I have a Teams message. I also need to keep an eye on Freshservice, various ADO teams, and now Confluence. I generally rely on someone sending me a Teams message to tell me that something is actually important. I was asked to use Slack for something and just said no and never logged on. I think there's another one that I'm supposed to use, but not sure what it is.
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This does not tally with my experience.
I only respond to pigeon.
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Boomers who use emails instead of teams...
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I know this is just a wind-up, but don't you think it is bad when one company controls all the communication between people? Perhaps it's ok, because in this case it is either Microsoft or Whatsapp.
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Teams messages worked well in my previous job where I was managing a geographically spread team and / or working from home myself. I used to prefer it to somone phoning (or the dreaded Teams call) as I could repond with a holding message that I'd get back to them after I'd finished a task (such as posting on Cake Stop). It was also useful having a record of the conversation. Emails are my preference for anything external or more detailed stuff like a project brief and Teams calls for more detailed queries (the sort of thing you would have sat around a desk with plans or reports to discuss in the old days). If I feel it is important to have a 'paper' trail I will always use emails and they'll get saved on a project folder. After failing to learn in previous jobs and spending vast amounts of time sorting and filing emails in my notice period I've improved greatly in my current job, I now keep them in my main inbox until dealt with then file straight away and delete all those that don't contribute to a paper trail.
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Given all my work emails go through my Microsoft account, I'm not sure that splitting things across email and teams helps that though? I guess email can be on separate servers, but i would assume mostly it's an a Microsoft cloud somewhere.
But to answer, I don't think it's good that all communication goes through one company.
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You can send and receive email without using Microsoft. The EU has also legislated that Whatsapp should allow access to third parties. This is one of the good things about the EU.
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You can use Signal if you don't like WhatsApp.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I do. Not much use when no one else does though.
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Sure but, I couldn't send or receive a work email without Microsoft. We could move our systems back to a non Microsoft solution, but we could also have a non Microsoft IM client.
I guess it becomes a bit more of an issue with meetings where teams is now a defacto standard.
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