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Originally Posted by riser4
LolQuote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
I like minimalist sized wallets so no room for an extra card. I figure now that that's open we'll see wallets with it integrated soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by yeahman
Us old guys prefer slip-ins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brock Landers
Ummm... if I wanted a glutinous sedentary lifestyle, it sure as hell wouldn't be in Texas. Austin is nice to visit, but NYC, Chicago, and LA have electricity, and wouldn't involve converting to Republicanism.
I dunno man, if you’re gonna be sticky the place to do that might actually be TX.
Ha! those are the best autocomplete typos.
Need to run this by the masses…
Had an appt with an ear doctor scheduled for today. Booked it 4 months ago (they were booking 4 months in advance for a new patient). Audiology test before, then exam after.
Get 2 calls last week that the doctor needs to reschedule because he’s going on vacation. Vacation? Motherfucker I scheduled this 4 months ago! Finally get back to the US this weekend, call yesterday play phone tag- eventually the scheduling service (not his office) says he’s booking out to November/early December. I’m like wtf?
Call today, get in touch with his office secretary who does his scheduling- she can move things to get me in late August, and I have to do the audiology exam at a separate day/time- only Fridays and Saturdays,limited times, available before a late August exam.
I actually went ballistic on the phone. So now I have no appointment.
Am I right to be a little perturbed? The secretary was amazingly awful. “Doctors do go on vacation you know”
Yes you are right to be perturbed. If they cancel on you they should fit you in first possible chance, even if they have to come early or stay late.
The doc prob sprung the vacay on his staff now they are scrambling to move cancellations in an obviously overbooked schedule. Shit happens. A 4 week delay isn’t worth being a Dick to office staff. YTA here.
Yes, you're right to be perturbed, but blasting the front line office people is never, ever the right thing to do.
The exception I can think of is the callers who want to buy our house who constantly bombard us, virtually daily. I'm incredibly cruel to those chumps, leading them on with feigned interest and asking for contacts and references until I suggest that they should try to better their lives rather than being some loser schmuck cold calling donotcall numbers, usually icing the call with a loud FUCK YOU DO NOT CALL US.
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Originally Posted by gravitylover
Usually being really nice a collaborative/solution oriented with customer service produces the best results. Easiest way to get fucked over is to blame and get mad at CS for issues out of their control and demand they go out of their way to help you. This is like life skills 101.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brock Landers
Asking to be fit in right at closing/opening of another date, if any weekends have openings, if they can call any partner Dr offices to fit you in, etc are all much better options than going ballistic. And yeah, doctors go on vacations too, and sometimes they arent planned 6months in advance... its annoying and frustrating for sure, but you also didnt do yourself any favors with that kind of reaction.
You're going to be even more annoyed when you find the wallet after you've canceled everything. Had that happen once with my wife's wallet. The good news is, our debit cards are apparently separate, even though they're for the same bank account--but if one of us loses our cards at least we have a working debit card.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
I have a handy list of all the accounts I have on CC autopay. It has simplified the process greatly. Until I lose the list.Quote:
Originally Posted by Name Redacted
The doc is the AH. If you're scheduling appts 4 months out then schedule vacations 4 months out.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
Your list is on a piece of paper?Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Yeah, with my passwordsQuote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
Sheesh. At least get that shit into an encrypted document on Google Drive or OneDrive or Dropbox or something... I keep that kind of shit in Bitwarden, myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
I think the chance of someone breaking into an online acct, even an encrypted one, is a lot less than someone breaking into my house, stealing my passwords, and being able to use them with 2 factor authentication.
You're right.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
But I think you meant to write the opposite. In which case... :D
Pretty sure I'm not the first one to mention it here, but screw Microsoft Teams. Amazing how lousy software can be from one of the largest (and richest) developers on the planet.
Hope Teams didn't screw me over too badly but I had a big 2nd stage job interview today with a major international company for years now. I had a whole presentation set up, tested Teams out several times this morning to do a dry run and make sure it was all humming along. Was totally fine. Interview time comes and I click on their link for the meeting and Teams tells me to log in even though it was open and running. Do that and it hangs up, endlessly "logging in." Shut it down, try again, couple minutes late now, and while it lets me in, it doesn't let me select my custom background I use. Just had to proceed and then my camera window doesn't show up. Just a grey square. Confirmed with the interviewer (an exec at this company) that my camera was working but I had NO idea what I looked like. No idea if I was squared in the frame, giving good eye contact, or wtf my background was (blurred, my office wall, I have no idea). So just had to act like nothing was wrong and proceed. Was an hour long so I hope it went well, but Imma be proper pissed if it was Teams that hurt my chances here. Up against lots of competition.
In general, Zoom seems to work much better for me but Teams always manages to screw up SOMETHING just about every time I've used it. Especially with logging in to sessions. When they told me the meeting was going to be on Teams, I was like "Aww, balls. You have got to be kidding me." Haha.
...and then to add insult to injury, my cat was apparently sleeping in the room when I started and I hadn't noticed. About halfway through, she wakes from her slumber and starts frantically pawing at the office door like she has to hit the litterbox stat. Tried throwing things at her on the side to distract her, but no dice. Very distracting. Finally had to excuse myself from the interview for a second to let her ass out. Stupid cat.
This. Although I'd suggest that your vacation scheduling should actually be beyond the appointment horizon, and doing otherwise (particularly when you have extended wait times to get an appointment) is definitely an AH move.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
I had an appointment that I booked six months out, had to push because I ended up on a work trip at the time, and then the office called like a week before the appointment because the doctor--who, by the way, only does office visits one day a week--wasn't going to be in. The doc did give up his lunch break a couple of weeks later, though, so he gets credit for that.
Unfortunately, at least around me, both primary care and specialists are understaffed and booking far enough out that they don't have to care about actually treating customers reasonably. I showed up for my kid's appointment AT THE TIME ON THE REMINDER LETTER and was told I needed to reschedule because I was late. I thought I must've misread the time, but then I get home and verify that I have it right...so I call the office and they acknowledge that they know the automated system is sending out letters with the wrong time (actual appointment vs check in), and they're "working on it." If I had brought the letter with me, I might have really lost it.
I didn't want to reschedule with them, but it was literally that or wait a year plus to get an appointment elsewhere, which would've screwed up the vaccination schedule.
For the record, I was on the desk at work so by going ballistic I just calmly, methodically basically said the doctor was an asshole in multiple ways…blah blah, mentioned 4 or 5 times I was just venting, I know it wasn’t your vacation to the woman, thank you for hearing me out I wish I could tell the doc directly. Afterward we had a laugh after I said my piece.
I understand doctors go on vacation. I understand it could theoretically have been last minute (it wasn’t, she dropped that it was planned a month earlier and they meant to send LETTERS to patients but their systems suck…). And yes, trying to work on a solution is what I tried to do. But coming in on a Friday or Saturday in the next couple weeks isn’t what I had in mind. Only to come in again for the exam on the only open time (no this dude was not working late to accommodate).
The correct response would have been: "You guys use teams? Thanks, but I'm no longer interested. Call me when you switch to zoom."Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
My last company decided to use Teams. Everyone hated it, and we ditched it within two months. Used something else for a year or so, then moved to Slack. At some point we started using Zoom in addition to Slack for larger meetings. Then we got a new CFO who loves Teams, and he forced the company back on that system. There were some unhappy people.
I hate Teams. I liked Slack when we used it. Integrated well with WebEx when we used that. Teams is just plain awkward, even when it works.
I am proud of the fact that I never, in 25 years with Kaiser, refused to see a patient who came late. A lot of folks have to take multiple buses to get to the doctor, or rely on a friend who doesn't show up, or just have shitty time management or don't give a shit. Doesn't matter. It's always easier to see them and I worry that they'll not come back until it's too late. I do not respect docs who refuse to see late patients; after all we're late more than they are.
Teams is great for internal communication and collaboration, but we maintain zoom on a somewhat limited basis for large meetings or those with external attendees.
I get annoyed anytime somebody uses an oddball meeting system though, especially if I’m not paying attention and don’t do a test run in advance of the meeting.
This. There were hundreds up my arm too
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Teams sucks. Half the time my phone won't open it and I have to scramble to get my laptop on WiFi to join a meeting.
Be glad you're not a dog. Or the person who has to get those out of a dog.Quote:
Originally Posted by evdog
I have probably an even dozen teams accounts (internal and customer/partner accounts) and each and every time I have to force logout of all accounts (phone, laptop, etc) in order to switch to a different one.
I dont even pretend to try to make teams work on my phone, just use the dial in info and come in as a guest
I really should! I just found out I'm getting scoped out on LinkedIn by several members of their team, so I must not have totally bombed the interview, BUT if I end up getting some offers (I'm in talks with 3 different companies right now), I am totally using that line! Haha. "Thank you, but I've accepted another offer with an organization that uses Zoom instead." :the_fingeQuote:
Originally Posted by evdog
100%! And it always does it at THE worst times!!! Have a critical meeting (like say a JOB INTERVIEW?!) and THAT'S when it decides to crap the bed or glitch out. No matter how many dry runs you practiced where it ran fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
Ohhhhh! Perhaps THAT was why it got so confused. I'll make sure to do that next time. What a POS, huh?Quote:
Originally Posted by mc_roon
Now that I have a poodle, I've come to realize why they're not the best for upland game bird duty. Dog is practically velcro with burrs. Whereas my old GSP mixes (especially the Weim mutt), the burrs would just slide right off! Now I have to bring the dogs brush with me. Haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
what are you guys doing to have such a hard time with Teams? Runs fine in my office, at home, and on my cellphone in the ski area parking lot. Been working fine over 3 years with 5+ meetings/screenshares a day happening. And believe me, im no tech wizard.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
Do you use teams externally or only with folks in your same company?Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
Well good for you, but you're definitely the outlier on this one. Back when it was Skype, it wasn't half bad. And then it became "Teams" it was still ok(ish), but it's been getting increasingly buggier over the years it seems. But even when it's at its best, its video/audio quality is still complete ass compared to the competition. I have a great HD external webcam and a good mic (Blue Yeti), and Teams just can't hang... on both ends. It's blurry and muffled. Probably due to compression algorithms. Zoom isn't without its flaws, but at least the video is crystal clear for me and audio quality far superior.Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
I've heard Teams is sometimes preferable for internal meetings and Zoom's better for external ones. Perhaps that's the case.
I'm not sure he's an outlier, since usually people that don't have issues don't say much. I, also, have no issues with Teams at our company, so perhaps it's an implementation issue as much as a software issue?Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
Again, no issues really to speak of with audio or video with Teams, but I don't have issues with Zoom either.Quote:
Back when it was Skype, it wasn't half bad. And then it became "Teams" it was still ok(ish), but it's been getting increasingly buggier over the years it seems. But even when it's at its best, its video/audio quality is still complete ass compared to the competition. I have a great HD external webcam and a good mic (Blue Yeti), and Teams just can't hang... on both ends. It's blurry and muffled. Probably due to compression algorithms. Zoom isn't without its flaws, but at least the video is crystal clear for me and audio quality far superior.
I've heard Teams is sometimes preferable for internal meetings and Zoom's better for external ones. Perhaps that's the case.
We use Teams both internally and externally. A number of our vendors and customers also use Zoom, so depending on which org creates a meeting, we use them both...Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
Might just be related to how often you use it. I rarely use Teams and when I do it sucks, but when I worked at a company that was on Teams and used it every day, it was fine.
Ya, audio and video quality on WebEx and Zoom have always been much better than Teams in my experience. I find Teams likes to drop my session a lot if I'm screen sharing. Haven't had that issue with Zoom. But we are only allowed to use that if an external vendor or customer is hosting the meeting. And then only allowed to use Zoom in the browser. The Zoom windows app is strictly forbidden.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
my organization uses Teams and I have had no issues, using it internally and externally. Have also used zoom or google meet (clients often use them) and they also seem to work fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
What do you guys mean by "internally and externally?"
I use it as an internal user and as an invited "guest" user (with various rights) and the major problems always show up as a guest. The internal users I'm trying to communicate with have to be reminded constantly that Teams is screwing up statuses and holding onto messages for days.
Only issue using a company account is the usual MS "updates" that make things worse more often than not. This kind of technology was working much better and more reliably 15 years ago from numerous vendors (ICQ, Citrix, webex, Google, Skype...) Microsoft is the kook in this space.
We use Teams exclusively internally and i am constantly calling, IM'ing and screensharing with my folks.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
I use Teams externally whenever i am the one sending out the invitations- so usually 1-3 external Teams meetings per day with clients on the private and public side. I also am on Teams, Zoom, go-to-meeting, and webex meetings on a weekly basis that others set up. Never really had much of an issue with any of them except after major internal IT updates that wiped my personal info so i had to relogin to those applications the first time back. I honestly cannot remember the last time we had an issue with Teams... hell, all of microsoft crashed the other week but Teams managed to be fully functional throughout.