LOL @ Work

[TheSlamma]

LYNC is awesome. we use it too. lol is just fine.

So he WAS just trying to sound cool. I knew it!

 

[ctbaars]

No way.

 

[DannyBoy]

Perfectly acceptable on Slack / Lync / IM, not in anyway acceptable *at all* in an email.

 

[Captante]

Yes - LOL away

 

[PliotronX]

It depends on what kind of relationship there is, subordinates or equals might find you goofy or higherups see slacking. When you're tight with a coworker though, totally fine. Wait'll your company gets a real hard-on for Microsoft products and makes you sign up for Yammer.

 

[cbrunny]

Yea, no idea what OPs problem with Lync is, it's quite good.

Here it's well integrated with our Exchange, so it has a list of my daily meetings on it, it's tied in with our conference call system so you can join a conference call through VoIP with it (really useful when I'm not in the office) screen sharing works great and can share either the whole screen, or specific windows/monitors, can record video/audio of meetings/presentations, logs IM conversations and puts them in an Outlook folder for later reference, can do group conversations on the fly or easily make persistent chat rooms.

Our implementation is nowhere near that. it's basically a tack-on here. I find it to be very slow and very resource intensive for what it provides.

 

[Phoenix86]

Stuff like that would confuse me in a work environment.

Boss: "Rudeguy, get those reports on my desk ASAP".

Rudeguy: "Ain't nobody got time for that"

Boss: "Uh...Did you just refuse to what I asked"?

Like so many things in life, this is great general advice, but the specifics are important.

I had a boss I could say that to, walk away, and they would have laughed and gone back to their desk. Knowing I would have done whatever he asked.

 

[Nebor]

This is a bad thread, and you should feel bad.

 

[ioni]

Why is Lync terrible? just makes you sound cool to say?

Because Lync is terrible. If you have it, try this. Start a conversation with someone and make it long enough for the scroll bar to appear. Click another window to move focus away from the Lync window. Now click on the Lync scroll bar and try to scroll. It won't work. The scroll bar won't work unless the window already has focus.

I've run into a lot of issues getting copy/paste to work with Lync as well. Sometimes copying a conversation doesn't work and sometimes pasting something to send just doesn't work.

Lastly, if you're trying to talk to someone and want to look at something they said earlier, good luck. Every time you receive a message, the received text window goes back down to the bottom.

 

[PliotronX]

Because Lync is terrible. If you have it, try this. Start a conversation with someone and make it long enough for the scroll bar to appear. Click another window to move focus away from the Lync window. Now click on the Lync scroll bar and try to scroll. It won't work. The scroll bar won't work unless the window already has focus.

I've run into a lot of issues getting copy/paste to work with Lync as well. Sometimes copying a conversation doesn't work and sometimes pasting something to send just doesn't work.

Lastly, if you're trying to talk to someone and want to look at something they said earlier, good luck. Every time you receive a message, the received text window goes back down to the bottom.

I'm not the biggest fan of Lync but that seems pretty weak. If archival use is needed, e-mail is far better for that.

 

[cbrunny]

This is a bad thread, and you should feel bad.

This is a useless comment, and you should feel useless.

 

[rudeguy]

Like so many things in life, this is great general advice, but the specifics are important.

I had a boss I could say that to, walk away, and they would have laughed and gone back to their desk. Knowing I would have done whatever he asked.

That's exactly the kind of place I work for. Except we are more of a team. No one orders anyone around. It's always "do you think you can do X?". And the answer is always yes I can.

 

[DesiPower]

If not, then you are working in the wrong place.

 

[Belegost]

Because Lync is terrible. If you have it, try this. Start a conversation with someone and make it long enough for the scroll bar to appear. Click another window to move focus away from the Lync window. Now click on the Lync scroll bar and try to scroll. It won't work. The scroll bar won't work unless the window already has focus.

Works fine here.

I've run into a lot of issues getting copy/paste to work with Lync as well. Sometimes copying a conversation doesn't work and sometimes pasting something to send just doesn't work.

Used Lync here for ~4 years and several versions now - occasionally trying to paste a file to send it has issues, but copying and pasting text has always worked fine.

Lastly, if you're trying to talk to someone and want to look at something they said earlier, good luck. Every time you receive a message, the received text window goes back down to the bottom.

I had to ask a co-worker to send me random stuff to check this - mine stayed where I was and just flashed to let me know I had a new message below. Admittedly we moved to 2013 a while back, maybe earlier versions do send you back to the latest message.

 

[Nebor]

This is a useless comment, and you should feel useless.

Die in a fire.

 

[cbrunny]

Die in a fire.

Die in a flood.

 

[rudeguy]

Yet another fun Spark conversation today:

(10:47) rudeguy: can you get me business cards?
(11:01) admin asst: Happy to. What would you like them to say? Are you going out to solicit customers and network?
(11:01) rudeguy: Networking.
(11:01) rudeguy: I'd like my title to be "Mad Scientist"
(11:03) admin asst: I'll send you a template and you can make the updates, Doctor rudeguy
(11:03) rudeguy: mwahahhahaha
(11:03) rudeguy: thanks!

 

[Anubis]

yea we use lync here as well, no serious issues

the only one mentioned is the one where if you scroll up and get a new message it takes you to the bottom

that's really a non issue IMO

 

[KeithTalent]

We use Microsoft Office Communicator.

KT

 

[rudeguy]

We use Microsoft Office Communicator.

KT

We used that at the call center. It was awesome.

Then they took it away because they were too cheap to pay for licenses. Hold time went up by about 300%.

 

[KeithTalent]

We used that at the call center. It was awesome.

Then they took it away because they were too cheap to pay for licenses. Hold time went up by about 300%.

I like that it has the nerd smiley which looks exactly like me.

KT

 

[rudeguy]

I like that it has the nerd smiley which looks exactly like me.

KT

you know the rules....


pics or ban

 

[KeithTalent]

you know the rules....


pics or ban

I can't find it. I looked!

KT

 

[rudeguy]

I can't find it. I looked!

KT

 

[dave_the_nerd]

We is are professional @ works.