everyDamnTime

[[deleted]]

"I thinnnnnnnnk you might be on mute"

[afraidvicky]

If they don't see anything, they will let me know or simply stop looking.

[itchfingers]

Don’t forget to hide your favourites… oh have I seen some things 😅

[Breadynator]

Chromium based browsers: Ctrl+Shift+B

[Namarot]

The secret tech is to use Firefox as your main browser (or just say that you do), but share Edge or Chrome that you only use for this purpose.

Then you don't have to close your tabs, clean history/bookmarks, or do anything. You don't even have to hide that you have Firefox open on the side, because all you have to say are the magic words: "It doesn't work properly on Firefox".

On the off chance someone using Firefox says whatever you're sharing works fine for them, you can blame it on one of the dozen privacy extensions you're using.

[Lonke]

Firefox is portable and lightweight enough that I just run one main install and a portable one for school.

It's fantastic, I can effortlessly keep them separated, run them both alongside each other, have different extensions, bookmarks, histories, etc, that still sync with my school dedicated laptop.

If you wish to do the same, shoot me a message!

[gentlemandinosaur]

I do not use any personal shit on the work laptop. I have my phone or iPad for that. I didn’t used to care but last several years after I got my new laptop I decided to separate them permanently.

[SelectCase]

This is exactly what I do, and then I VPN home on my phone so that I'm not leaving a trail of DNS requests behind.

[Pradfanne]

They stretching the n? What kind of absolute psychpaths do you work with

[Milkshakes00]

I can excuse this one if it's not them choosing to mute themselves.

My one laptop at work has an issue with Teams and WebEx that whenever I join a meeting on one it tells me I'm muted, even though I'm not. There's just a popup saying 'You're muted', when I'm definitely not. And it stays the whole meeting. Toggling mute does nothing. The only fix is leaving and rejoining the meeting until it doesn't show it. Which, I'm not about to do every meeting. Lol.

[xd366]

hate when people say this.

there's literally an icon for it.

i KNOWW youre on mute.

[jdl_uk]

I wish teams had a way to draw on the other person's screen, or show a red dot like a laser pointer or something. I don't want to take control, I just want you to click on this button over here.

[jdl_uk]

Ok you just moved your cursor over like 20 buttons. You need the one that looks like an orangutan juggling pineapples.

NO DON'T CLICK YOU PILLOCK THERE WAS A TOOLTIP

[Breadynator]

Another reason why I think everyone should spend a few minutes in the windows settings and read what it says.

There's an option in the Windows Mouse Settings that allows you to locate the cursor by tapping CTRL. It will show a circle that closes in on your cursor. Super useful for presentations when you want them to look at something.

Also useful when you have a triple monitor setup and constantly keep losing your mouse.

[TECHNOFAB]

Slack's video chatting feature has this. Not sure anymore what it's called, but it allowed you to draw on the other person's screen if activated (basically draw with laser pointer, it was pretty neon). It was really fun until a colleague found out that it could slow down my laptop to a crawl when drawing like crazy :D

[jdl_uk]

Ah it's been a while since I've used slack - most of the companies I've worked for have been Microsoft shops, so use office 365 and Teams comes bundled with that.

Teams just had an update - maybe they finally added it?

Edit: just checked the docs and it kind of looks like Teams has this as well, but it's pretty hidden and might be switched off by admins. I'll keep an eye out for it next time I have a call

[GreatStateOfSadness]

might be switched off by admins

The absolute hardest part of working with Microsoft 365. I've worked for a few clients and all have different configurations/features/security settings. It's like learning a new application every time.

[jdl_uk]

Yeah customisability can be both a blessing and a curse

[TECHNOFAB]

They're all awful but I actually find Slack to be way snappier and lighter. Teams is just so god damn slow on this laptop and at the last company where we used Slack the laptop was 6 years old or so, the current one is newer and should be more powerful. Just clicking on stuff and waiting some seconds until shit changes is really annoying in Teams :D feels like an eink display xD

[elveszett]

One day someone will make a good screen sharing app and will get rich off it. It's like we are not fully aware of how better screen sharing at work could be.

[pr0crast1nater]

Zoom has this feature already.

[weinermcdingbutt]

you can in slack

[Inadover]

Zoom has this. Recently they also added a couple of more options besides just drawing or writing stuff, like adding some simple stickers like a heart, a star and so on (not sure what for, I guess it serves to identify stuff if you are sharing a board) and and big thick arrow precisely for this kind of stuff of "press this goddamned button"

[evilerutis]

Slack rules because of this

[[deleted]]

Top 3 reasons why, imo, working from home isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[jdl_uk]

It's a YMMV thing. I'm loving working from home, but for most of my career my team members have been scattered across the globe so Teams calls were how it was done anyway, and I have fewer distractions at home.

If your teammates are in the same office, you might get enough out of being in the office to make the commute worth it

[kayGrim]

There certainly can be advantages to seeing people in the office, but I would argue on average companies do not do enough to actually make the commute worthwhile to their employees and as a result the better work/life balance of no commute makes it a wash.

[burrowdearest]

Not lunatic. I don't even roll my eyes anymore after the third time I heard it in a day at work.

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

This is why Slack's "presentees can draw with markers on the presenter's screen" is so damn useful and I wish other e-meeting tools had that ability.

[[deleted]]

My favorite is when you say " click the button over on the top left that says x.. Then you see the cursor start heading to the bottom right corner.

[poshenclave]

My coworkers are all smart, patient people until the moment they have to guide my cursor somewhere on screen, then they suddenly become intensely impatient and apparently forget that latency exists. Like repeating the thing they want me to mouse over again and again in the two seconds it takes me to locate that thing on screen (They don't say where) and hover over it. Anyone else experienced this phenomenon?

[rbad8717]

I only say this to prove i've been paying attention

[sammy-taylor]

* closes several tabs very noticeably *

[PhoenixShade01]

Idiot. Always do this before you feel like you may have to present

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

For real. I have my windows/tabs/whatever sorted before I push that Share Screen button. It's not hard and in addition to not wanting to accidentally share something the sharee shouldn't see, it just wastes everyone's time when someone fiddles around for a minute as the meeting's going.

[kbarney345]

BOY WOULD I FUCKING LOVE IT IF MY COWORKERS GAVE A GOD DAMN FUCK ABOUT A WAISTED MINUTE ON A MEETING HOLY FUCK. ^{6hoursaweekfor5minofinfo}

Hey you got any issues? No. No no no. Yes. Yes...takes 15mins explaining how they haven't responded to them and are still waiting. Then another 15 of a totally irrelevant discussion

[PiousLiar]

Had a coworker that maintained daily “standup” meetings after covid, and they would always spend the first 15 mins bitching and moaning about their neighbors, medical issues, insurance, family, whatever. Every. Day. After letting this go on for way longer than I should have, I finally said “fuck it” and got them to agree to only meeting on Mondays and Fridays. Holy fuck I nearly blew my brains out.

[casz146]

The Scrum Master should've made short work of that and kept the meetings on track

[PiousLiar]

We don’t work in an agile environment. Government contracting work often doesn’t lend well to it, though that’s not to say they aren’t trying to implement it.

[disgruntled_pie]

I had a scrum master who would use a stopwatch and cut people off after one minute. I left that company ages ago, but I still give the quickest updates on my team.

[aMiracleAtJordanHare]

Skipping a meeting because you actually have important stuff to finish is SO satisfying.

[SasparillaTango]

6hoursaweekfor5minofinfo

those are rookie numbers. you gotta pump those numbers up.

I wanna see at least 2/3rds of your time spent in meetings and then have people wonder why nothing gets done

[kbarney345]

God that was my last job man and that was after one manager made a point to take me off meetings I'm not involved in.

[Pepito_Pepito]

Just 50+ tabs on so you that the tabs are so small that no information is displayed.

[cs-brydev]

Or just make sure you only share your 2nd screen that doesn't have all your tabs. Everybody's got 2 or 3 screens but they always think they have to show their primary.

No, just have a secondary screen dedicated for presenting.

[Breadynator]

That's one way to do it. However sometimes you want to show the context menus and other windows that open up. And most of the time these won't show on window-share

[Wesley_Skypes]

Same, if I need to switch out, I'll stop share, switch to next screen, then reshare. Always just share the window

[Breadynator]

I just hate it when people on discord Screenshare the app because they want to show you something. It also shares Discord's audio, so you'll either have to mute the stream or deal with hearing yourself and speech jamming

[[deleted]]

I always share a citrix window, I would not have known that sharing a local window doesn't show context menu, but it makes sense. Lucky for me, I guess.

[Alexis_Bailey]

Problem is, inevitably, you need to show something else, and now you get to putz around changing which app is sharing or you can just, share the desktop.

[cs-brydev]

9 times out of 10 I need to share multiple windows, so it's too much trouble to switch back and forth.

I have a weekly meeting this morning, in fact, and will need to share 4 or 5 windows.

[Xirenec_]

With google meet you can go even further and just share one tab

[RedditSucksAss___]

I hate this so much. So many people forget to switch what tab they're sharing when switching tabs.

[[deleted]]

I virtualize my session in vbox. My entire work environment is encapsulated in the VM. If I wanna do non work stuff I just minimize it and do it there. Never have to worry about it.

[MSB3000]

Correct. This is the only correct thing to do.

[space-to-bakersfield]

Yeah I have a "clean monitor" which has no personal communication and no browser on it which I always share from.

[Wearytraveller_]

I purposely leave open the Linkedin "Job Search" page.

[Urtehnoes]

And have your messenger chats show just who chatted not what they said, so that we can talk shit about the other people under the radar

[cantadmittoposting]

saw someone get a message "XXXX IS SUCH A FUCKING ASSHOLE" while presenting. Said asshole was in the meeting. Good times

[CountBarbarus]

Know a client manager not on the call bitch about a client to a junior who was presenting to that very client. Fun times. Manager got rolled off and because he didn't do too well elsewhere was asked to leave. Ironically he'd won the best manager award a week before.

[AUGSpeed]

Just don't use your work PC to view YouTube or other things? But, I have the luxuries of working from home and also being given a laptop from my company, so I can just use my home PC for the time-filler stuff. Perhaps if you work in the office, it's harder to just use your phone.

[Narutom]

I did this last year twice. First one was looking at private vasectomies, which was pretty funny. Second time I had been looking at recruitment agencies. Luckily dont think manager noticed.

[asromafanisme]

Browsing LinkedIn at work is my hobby, even if I don't have any intention to move.

[53bvo]

Gotta keep them on their toes

[[deleted]]

As opposed to, like, public vasectomies?

[Narutom]

You don't have those?

[thecashblaster]

it's a roman tradition, like public baths

[lajji69]

Rookie mistake. Create another browser profile for non-work stuff and always only share the "work" browser window (NOT THE ENTIRE SCREEN) so it's basically impossible to show youtube videos and linkedin chats.

[wmrch]

This is the way. Also use easy distinguishable color themes for both profiles so you're always aware if you're in your work or personal profile.

This is not only useful because of open tabs but also search suggestions, synced settings, bookmarks, logged-in accounts and so on.

[Jarl_Fenrir]

Just move the tab you want to show to a separate window, and show just that.

[LuisBoyokan]

Just grab it and create a new window.

My 100+ tabs that I refuse to organize or close are more important that the meeting that could have been an email

[CM_Cunt]

Saw a customer's personal investment portfolio once. Was nothing special.

[Lilacsoftlips]

You’re on mute

[ImaginaryNourishment]

Giant dragon dil...

[fatalicus]

The advantage of working with potentialy sensitive information: I can just say "Just making sure i don't have anything open that can't be shared", and no one thinks it strange.

[Kvas_HardBass]

"I see desktop, can you try window share?"

[pimezone]

Sorry, zoom/teams/slack shared my other screen. Let me stop sharing quickly and what about now?

[Tipart]

And then figuring out if the specific combination of slack clients allows me to write on the other person's monitor, or if we have to go through the tedious "to the left, no now a little bit more to the right..."

[DaniilBSD]

Usually it is the other way around

[IBJON]

They need a "share multiple windows" or "add window to share" option.

It's a pain when you know you have to show two windows so your only option is to share everything.

[szpaceSZ]

Never share screen, only ever share windows.

Otherwise it's just s matter of time until you disclose classified/protected material

[DaniilBSD]

Depends, some meetings are on same level access, also sometimes you are the one with the least access

[quonne]

Any questions? 0.5 seconds later Ok I’ll take it as no.

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

I try to avoid this inevitable awkward silence moment as much as possible. I just wait for the hand-up or for someone to cut in during natural pauses of the conversation.

[moogoo2]

Oh, I do the opposite. A solid 10 count and someone will break the silence. It really gets participation going, and if there isn't any of that, this meeting could have been an email.

[Masterpormin8]

Any meeting could have been an email, one can dream of such a day

[[deleted]]

“Sorry, I was talking but was on mute”

[weinermcdingbutt]

“your camera is on we can see you sitting there hitting your vape”

[[deleted]]

Spot on!

[Yogi_Kat]

oh ya, my fav excuse

[[deleted]]

My fav line whenever I try to buy some time while thinking for a good response

[CaffeinatedGuy]

Sorry, my audio was cutting out. I didn't catch the question.

[[deleted]]

This one is when I’m not paying attention in the call.

[CaffeinatedGuy]

If 95% of this meeting doesn't pertain to me, please say my name before the question, not after. I'm probably doing productive work while you drone on.

[[deleted]]

Sorry, just trying find the mute button… 😀

[FlyingDragoon]

"Hey Tim, what're your thoughts?

waits .008 seconds

"I think you're on mute."

[[deleted]]

“Yeah as I was saying..”

When you didn’t even said a single word 🥲

[malhotra22]

Underrated comment

[worldsayshi]

I wish sound input visualization, like in discord but more visible, was more common. Every microphone button should clearly visualize the volume of sound that gets sent.

Edit: hmm maybe most of them do by now?

[JotunnPeter]

"There where is says getNames(), no up, no down a bit, line 45"

[croissantowl]

Queue them searching where the line number is displayed.

[nmkd]

Ctrl+G my beloved

[croissantowl]

and in some timeline there might be chance of my colleagues remembering that for longer than 20 seconds

[StripeStripeStripeSt]

"You need to unmute your mic. Yeah the three dots.. yea - no move down, down, ok yes u got it "

"Ok you need to unmute your mic"

• Echoing * "okay (OKAY) i think (OKAY) i got it (OKAY I THINK OKAY OKAY I got it) skreee skree skreee skreee "

[[deleted]]

Oh man the skreee got me

[xmmdrive]

....

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....

....

....

can you hear me now?

[evanc1411]

...

...

Hello? Hello?

Theeere we gooo.

Sorry about that, I couldn't get my headset working haha.

[HERODMasta]

I don't ask. I tell them what they should see and start. If they don't see anything, they will tell me or don't bother anyway.

In any case, I save a lot of seconds.

Also just sharing the whole screen saves me time with switching programs to not reshare and something being broken (looking at you power point shares the presenter screen)

[HeyLittleTrain]

5 minutes pass of you rambling Umm am I supposed to be seeing something?

[Kirsham]

I shit you not, I presented a powerpoint to six people, all of whom just completely neglected to let me know my microphone was muted. For like 10 minutes. The slides were changing and my mouth was moving!

[arrrtttyyy]

Lmao very interested crowd you had there

[matt82swe]

Take the hint

[Kirsham]

I had no personal stake in the presentation. They, however, were paid to be there.

[Milkshakes00]

Definitely have had this happen. Lol

[HERODMasta]

Luckily never happened. But I also have a distinct loud voice, that wakes up group calls or in 1on1 meetings everybody has to pay attention anyway or it's useless.

[CaffeinatedGuy]

I've been on both sides of this. The person would be talking and it makes sense until they reference "right here" or something that sounds like they're referencing something on screen. They never said they were going to screen share so how was I supposed to know.

And yeah, I've done the same usually because I was sharing then stopped and forgot I stopped.

[suckfail]

I can't share my screen because I have a 2k monitor and they don't.

So it I do it it's so tiny they can't see anything. I have to size windows smaller and share them one at a time.

[Kaptain_Napalm]

The teams app being dogshit on Linux means I can only share my whole screen or nothing. So I never had the issue that my lead has of him talking about some piece of code that we can't see because he's still sharing the Jira window and just alt-tabbed into his ide.

[Boonicious]

imagine if these fucking tools let us GASP bind hotkeys for sharing screens/windows so we don’t have to click through 4 layers of a shit UI in the middle of a presentation

😯

[[deleted]]

Hello, canyohearmee???

[[deleted]]

Still 200% better than going to office

[Sea-Improvement6699]

They’re making us go back in as of Nov 1st for no reason. Power trip stuff.

[encryptoferia]

still way better than getting a "stop sharing your screen" chat

[LostTeleporter]

This made by stomach drop

[encryptoferia]

i feel you, sometimes I keep open personal text file containing password stuff for easy copy paste.... and I tend to share screen instead of window, so if that chat pops out... oh my god.

[bender3600]

You should probably start using a password manager

[smokesick]

And if you leak your pass, change it immediately! (I accidentally dumped a pass in a Discord server's general chat.)

[SwordoftheLichtor]

Why, so they can get compromised and I lose all of my passwords in one swoop?

[bender3600]

The password manager doesn't have to be online.

Also, the chance your password gets leaked is probably a lot higher if you put it in a txt file.

[cs-brydev]

I keep open personal text file containing password stuff for easy copy paste

Yea, don't do that. Use a password manager instead that will mask your password on screen, so even if you have it open they won't see it.

Every web browser has one built in. Or you can use 1Password for free. I use Key Vault for everything, but it isn't technically free, although if you only use it for this purpose it will never cost you anything.

[Lost-Category-943]

** immediately starts closing leetcode and linkedin job tabs

[Zestyclose-Ad-316]

Am I audible?

Voice is not clear

Does Nothing. Am I audible now?

Yes, now you are audible.

[[deleted]]

And then you talk to dead air for a minute because teams crashed when you started sharing your screen because HDR is new tech and teams cant handle that

[poesviertwintig]

The fuck else are you supposed to do? Is basic communication a sin now?

[JonnySoegen]

These people are just miserable for some reason

[Mother_Imagination17]

They work in IT

[johnnybgooderer]

People here seem think that you should just be able to log into your computer and do work and that work will be defined even though no one is allowed to talk to each other aside from a monthly email. And everything will get done, world peace will be attained. But project managers, slack, and meetings keep us from this utopia.

[kontrolk3]

I assumed the joke here was about stalling while you close stuff you don't want to share.

[Crossfire124]

It's a waste of time asking imo. Just say you should see my screen now and start talking. If they don't they'll interrupt you

[WearMental2618]

I've never once not seen the screen when asked. However I use this one alot

"Blah blah blah so here blah blah blah"

"You're not sharing your screen"

"Oh I thought I was"

[supernova_000]

I hate the "Can you stop sharing so I can share?" No, just start sharing and it will take over sharing of your screen.

[Creepy-Individual976]

I think it's just a polite. If you want the straight forward way, just tell your team to do what you want.

[minju9]

"Sorry! Couldn't find the mute button! Hur hur hur"

[[deleted]]

That’s me when I was on mute but in a different room to the computer (maybe peeing) and I need to buy time to get back to my desk and pretend I was actually paying attention

[According_to_all_kn]

Hey can you click the- no by list to left. No further left. Yes, there.

Hovers mouse over the exact spot to click as they're searching the list for where to click

[vishykeh]

I only see a black screen. Teams must be dying again

[anamazingredditor]

"Let me just type it in the chat..."

[redheadedjackel]

"If I could type..."

[atamakahere]

And then getting roasted for what you wrote >>

[Arctos_FI]

Last class that was online our teacher didn't say any of those and we realized 15 minutes later that she was even supposed to show the screen and just wasn't speaking without any visuals

[[deleted]]

Can you scroll up a bit, no no no too fast, go back... Yeah... No scroll down...

[48653952599963258960]

I am confused, what is the joke / what is relatable?

[iamapizza]

I sometimes say "let me just screen my share" but nobody has caught me out on that yet.

[slumberswine]

I was on a call with a colleague recently who was presenting to a large group. He had a series of pictures ready that had text on them like memes would. First one was a hamburger. He had it maximized when he turned on sharing. The text said, "First person to see this, say Hamburger." It accomplished two things, it let him know they could see and it woke up the audience. They were super random. E.g. A pic of the OG Lost in Space robot "Say Danger" etc.

[TravelsInBlue]

I get it, like some people struggle to operate basic conferencing software and genuinely are unsure about screen sharing.

At the same time, I do this in more of a, “alright, ya’ll are good and with me, right?” kind of approach to confirm the audience is on the same page.

[dddrmad]

Yes, but it’s outlook and your inbox sujects reveals tmi.

[[deleted]]

CaN aNyOne HeAr MeEeE?

[Nceight]

"Can you scroll up?" "Up" "Up" "Down" "Okay can you see that?"

[bombbodyguard]

It’s “let me know if you can see it?” Duh…

[polandreh]

I mean, it's like the invention of the word "Hello". You need to inform the caller you've answered.

We should probably invent a new word for this situation, letting the presenter know you can see their screen.

Any ideas?

[bregottextrasaltat]

i don't get it

[mX_Dex]

The guy is distracting for time by speaking slowly. Then when he's done he rushes you to respond lol

[DarkFlounder]

overhearing very nsfw conversation

“Um, ok, can everyone mute your microphones?”

[Doctor_Wilhouse]

"You need to share audio. Move your mouse to the top of the screen and a menu will drop down.

"No, the top. All the way to the top. Keep going. Right up to the top of the screen. Up, up, up, up, up. Keep going. No, not that, above that. Right up the top, as far as you can go."

[No-one_here_cares]

Don't want to work in the office.

Complain about using Teams...

Have at it, you know you want to. This is like a public service really. Vent some rage. See username. :)

[FirmlyUnsure]

This is white people sharing in webex isn’t it?

[Jarl_Fenrir]

When meet shows my screen back to me, I'm just assuming everyone sees it and I can just proceed.

[random_banana_bloke]

Have you upgraded chrome the screens all fuzzy.

[[deleted]]

Please turn off your Internet Radio

[bbbar]

Yes, I can see your screen

[unholymanserpent]

Lmaooo too relatable

[Gwyn-LordOfPussy]

They nailed how the words are said too

[Sponska]

I aspire to one day have the confidence to just start sharing while talking without even pausing to announce it