trainspotter Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Skim reading through the summary points from the daily senior management meetings and seeing how many things “went well” or were “great” makes me wonder if I am working at Sunshine Desserts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 5 hours ago, Zen Archer Esq. said: A question for everyone. I had my first Teams meeting today and could only see other participants when they spoke (on at a time). Is there a way to see everyone at the same time during chat? Yes. Turn your boiler to frost protection mode. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 I'm on one now addressing staff survey results. The fact I'm also on here tells you everything. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 16 hours ago, Zen Archer Esq. said: A question for everyone. I had my first Teams meeting today and could only see other participants when they spoke (on at a time). Is there a way to see everyone at the same time during chat? Surveillance technology 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 14 hours ago, CountyFan said: You can't win with this stuff to be fair. Most managers pay lip service to it but if they didn't there would be just as many folk saying "isn't it shocking that nobodys asked how we are, they don't care about us" I've been calling my team once a fortnight (delegated alternate weeks) and it's usually clear within the first 30 seconds if someone feels the need to have a chat or not. I do feel like i have to call all of them though so that they don't think i've got favourites or anything. I reckon 60% would prefer that i just left them alone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 12 hours ago, trainspotter said: Skim reading through the summary points from the daily senior management meetings and seeing how many things “went well” or were “great” makes me wonder if I am working at Sunshine Desserts. They didn't get where they are today by not being able to summarise. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 19 hours ago, The Moonster said: When this all kicked off my boss said we'd have a conference call on Teams every Friday "just so people weren't feeling alone in lockdown". We had 1 meeting on the first Friday and we've not had any more. I know folk mean well with this stuff, but surely managers realise that the majority of people in work places aren't actually close to each other and are simply friendly in the work to be nice? We've been having two (completely optional) team "coffee mornings" every week and that seems to have gone pretty well. Just basically a chance for a catch up. We do actually all tend to get on pretty well beyond work though so it's probably a bit different to most workplaces. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 20 hours ago, MixuFruit said: Work: Hey just to let you know its great if you want to just phone up your colleagues and have a chat. Me: OK. *Doesn't phone anyone for a chat* Work: Heyyyy.... so we've been asking around - haha not in a creepy way! - and noticed you've not had any social phone conversations with any of your colleagues we asked. Me: Uhuh? Work: So we were thinking maybe it would be helpful for you to do that? Me: No not really thanks. Work: OK, well we'll leave it for now, we don't feel like we need to make this compulsory ha ha ha. This'll be interesting. I've had that conversation. I'm in a very minor managerial role, with one person working under me. When this shit kicked off and we were furloughed, we exchanged a couple of texts along the lines of, "you OK? Aye, I'm fine. Give me a call if you get sick and need someone to bring groceries or whatever. Aye, thanks, will do. Talk to you later". It recently turned out that I was supposed to be calling the young one regularly so my boss could fill out a form saying that I was keeping track of my underling's health. Er, no - you aren't paying me just now, if you have admin work to be getting on with, how about the guy who's still getting the full whack of his inflated salary for doing hee-haw makes the effort? We also got an email from one of the board a while back informing us about all the extra cleaning procedures that would need to start being done before our sites reopen, and we should make our way into work now to get cracking. Quickly followed up by someone from senior management, who never answers emails, with a panicky "HAHAHA WE'VE FURLOUGHED OUR STAFF SO YOU CAN'T DO THAT, EVERYONE JUST IGNORE!" We've had suspicions before, but it's been a real eye-opener as to exactly how out of touch with their own organisation our board actually are. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 hour ago, Sergeant Wilson said: I'm on one now addressing staff survey results. The fact I'm also on here tells you everything. If it's anything like our staff survey the questions will have been weighted to give positive answers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 I enjoyed doing our "anonymous" staff survey then getting called into the office by the boss to be told off for my responses. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 4 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: I enjoyed doing our "anonymous" staff survey then getting called into the office by the boss to be told off for my responses. Ours asks separately for your age group, which sex, business area etc. I'm sure they don't use any of that identify anyone though. I would if I was in charge, although a few mugs outed themselves today if they hadn't already been spotted. E.g. "Thirs niver any trainin for me. Have you enrolled in any of the tailored e-learning on the intranet? Naw, that wiz when a wiz aff. It's been available for a few months and has been relaunched and updated for home working. Well a niver seen it." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 43 minutes ago, The Skelpit Lug said: They didn't get where they are today by not being able to summarise. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainMorton Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 95% of my office are currently working from home, yet we are still getting asking to do our monthly catch up with the TL to discuss how things are going. What are they expecting just now? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 95% of my office are currently working from home, yet we are still getting asking to do our monthly catch up with the TL to discuss how things are going. What are they expecting just now? How many games of Warzone that you’ve won 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpar Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 Just finished up a training meeting on Teams, the trainer would explain a new process then ask does anyone have any questions, to which one women on my team kept answering "No, we're fine" STFU Bebe, you don't talk for me! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Am Featha Taigh Nan Clach Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 I now have to take part in a weekly Teams meeting. I've gone the last 3 without even turning on my microphone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 19 hours ago, die hard doonhamer said: The team I work in are based across 2 offices, ^^^^ big Team found 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 hour ago, ellichtie said: Had a shift manager who would only hire ugly guys or 8/10 and above 18 year old lassies. Had a habit of squeezing folks arses and jumping out at folk whilst they were carrying glasses or knifes. ...and nobody "accidentally" slipped a f**k-off carving knife between his ribs? Coh. If folk aren't going to take an opportunity like that, they clearly aren't interested in committing cold-blooded murder. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 (edited) 20 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Ours asks separately for your age group, which sex, business area etc. I'm sure they don't use any of that identify anyone though. I would if I was in charge, although a few mugs outed themselves today if they hadn't already been spotted. E.g. "Thirs niver any trainin for me. Have you enrolled in any of the tailored e-learning on the intranet? Naw, that wiz when a wiz aff. It's been available for a few months and has been relaunched and updated for home working. Well a niver seen it." Almost exactly the same experience - we'd brought in a couple of new systems and a minority...the usual suspects...were vociferous about not having been trained on it. Apart from the intranet site that was set up specifically for that purpose, the video tutorials and the readily available quick reference guides that had all been out there for months before we adopted the systems, I'd agree with them. There are a few old-school types that don't consider themselves as having been trained on anything until someone sits them down in a room and physically reads out to them how to do something, preferably with the aid of a whiteboard and a laser pointer. Edited June 6, 2020 by Hillonearth 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Sounds like some people are being asked to return to our office at the end of June. Priority being those who’s jobs can’t be done outside the office, those who have requested, and those who have been asked to return. This all loosely translates to me as “pisstakers have been identified and telt to return ASAP.” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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