The moderator of a daily web-meeting saying “Who wants to go first?”.
Slow computers and awful cheap Keyboards
By this point i spend 400 € for a quality keyboard and noise canceling headphones, money I earned in that very job so I don’t get nuts at that job.
I use it at home too.
Any microsoft application. Constant bugs, crashes and a tendency to break everything if you accidentally use them in any other way than microsoft intended.
Also, ads in a fucking operation system? I don’t see how anyone can find that acceptable.
I think MIUI was its pioneer. Even the settings app had ads.
At least they use that to sell you the hardware for cheap. Microsoft doesn’t provide anything of value like that. In fact, they charge people for the OS and then have the audacity to add ads.
“We’ll wait a few more minutes for person X to join, then get the meeting started,” like the other ten people who made the effort to show up on time deserve to be punished with extra meeting time for being responsible. Bonus points if this causes the meeting to run a few minutes long.
Yeah, I’m totally cool with being late sometimes, but I know various folks where it’d be an exception, if they’re not late, because they have meetings back-to-back all day long.
Always makes me feel like the official meeting start should be 5 minutes after or something, but I know that those folks aren’t late for the fun of it. They’d definitely overrun those 5 minutes, if they knew they had them.
In recent weeks: Not having a plan.
Our manager was on vacation for a few weeks and so everyone was kind of just doing whatever they wanted. We’re a software dev team, so one colleague was working on UI, another colleague was working on authentication and a third worked on some showcase.
Now our manager is back and we did planning and it’s like, that showcase isn’t relevant until the end of the next milestone, and we’re not going to need the backend, nor its UI+authentication for the next two milestones.
Only really my work is directly relevant, because I did the incredible strategy of working towards the bare minimum we need.I kind of don’t care, if we’re inefficient. It’s not my job to manage the place. But I hate not knowing what I should work towards.