Oh boy, a bunch of people are gonna be reamed heavily up the tuckus because they got too smart for themselves. One of our distributors wanted to conduct a training session with three sales offices. Apparently a bunch of salespeople planned it so that sites would be connected via the internet with over 100 Powerpoint slides w/ audio and video streamed through a web browser. At the same time there would be a 4 way conference call with Q&A.
WTF WERE THEY THINKING!!!!! My couterparts at the other sites also crapped their pants when they heard his. I only learn about this because a net admin at another site overheard a conversation. It seems we were going to be informed about the whole charade 2 hours before the thing was suppose to happen. I thing a collective, "YEA RIGHT!!!!" was shouted at once. Why do people (especially non-tech inclined people) insist on pulling off sh!t like this without first running the idea by the people that have to handle the logistics???
We explined that the distributors does not have the bandwidth to get out 3 simultanious streams. If they could pull it off, we wouldn't be able to take 3 simultanious streams because all data traffic goes through corporate HQ and trickled down to each site. Most of the time the data lines are so satrurated that even a tiny Real Video stream gets choppy. After that we have to deal with the high ping times associated with the VPN (Our telco providor sucks donkey testicles). The audio portion will be handled over a conventional speaker phone. Now how many people have used speaker phone with a half duplex microphone (one person can speak)??? Even a voice conference microphone can handle about 8 people tops on a good day. Now how the hell do they expect to hold a Q&A session with 4 sites and 400 people??? It will be chaos if we're lucky.
So all the techs are insisting that this isn't going to happen but do these idiots scale back their plans? Hell no. They claim that they'd bein big trouble if the VPs found out their plan wasn't well thought out. Guess what stupid, they VPs will be will be a hellava lot more pissed when they find out 400 people will basically attend a useless meeting.
Oh boy its gonna be a rough day. I think us techs are gonna start a pool to see how many minutes it will take before it all falls apart. I'm betting 10 minutes. I really don't care what happens. If they want to dig their own graves, so be it. I've lodged my protest in writing and my colluegues have done the same.
Windogg
WTF WERE THEY THINKING!!!!! My couterparts at the other sites also crapped their pants when they heard his. I only learn about this because a net admin at another site overheard a conversation. It seems we were going to be informed about the whole charade 2 hours before the thing was suppose to happen. I thing a collective, "YEA RIGHT!!!!" was shouted at once. Why do people (especially non-tech inclined people) insist on pulling off sh!t like this without first running the idea by the people that have to handle the logistics???
We explined that the distributors does not have the bandwidth to get out 3 simultanious streams. If they could pull it off, we wouldn't be able to take 3 simultanious streams because all data traffic goes through corporate HQ and trickled down to each site. Most of the time the data lines are so satrurated that even a tiny Real Video stream gets choppy. After that we have to deal with the high ping times associated with the VPN (Our telco providor sucks donkey testicles). The audio portion will be handled over a conventional speaker phone. Now how many people have used speaker phone with a half duplex microphone (one person can speak)??? Even a voice conference microphone can handle about 8 people tops on a good day. Now how the hell do they expect to hold a Q&A session with 4 sites and 400 people??? It will be chaos if we're lucky.
So all the techs are insisting that this isn't going to happen but do these idiots scale back their plans? Hell no. They claim that they'd bein big trouble if the VPs found out their plan wasn't well thought out. Guess what stupid, they VPs will be will be a hellava lot more pissed when they find out 400 people will basically attend a useless meeting.
Oh boy its gonna be a rough day. I think us techs are gonna start a pool to see how many minutes it will take before it all falls apart. I'm betting 10 minutes. I really don't care what happens. If they want to dig their own graves, so be it. I've lodged my protest in writing and my colluegues have done the same.
Windogg
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