If someone said to me that they quit their job for one single reason and that reason was “We have to use Microsoft Teams”, I would not ask any further questions, just nod in sympathy.
: jemostrom.micro.blog
@jemostrom I was talking to someone who is working with us at The Fire Found last week, and because I am me, some of our software support is shall we say not the usual for business .. are you ok with that .. I asked.
John .. he said .. very much … theres just one rule … the day you introduce Teams is the day I walk out the door.
@JohnPhilpin 👍🏻. So far we’re allowed to do some things differently but I’m afraid that they will force us to become another Microsoft department and I’ve been thinking of what I should do then: just do what they say? Go analog and use as little computer stuff as possible? Seek early retirement?
@jemostrom or maybe introduce them to BYOD and extend the concept to Software .. 🔗 if you can overcome the permafrost
@JohnPhilpin That’s going to be really hard to do … for a couple of reasons. The most important is that I’m sometimes have access to personal info that I really, really don’t want to have on my own devices. Other reason is that would mean that work would get, partial, access to my devices, also a total NO from me.
Fortunately, my department have a very, very, VERY good IT staff that lives and breathes Linux (in all flavors and most interesting configurations) but support any platform. We also have a huge range of hardware, so they are completely OK with me running macOS, using text only apps, etc, etc. Unfortunately, I also need to work with those who doesn’t know that there are non-windows/microsoft things (they are from other departments) which means that they don’t really know how bad Teams is.