So anyway, the owners of the company I work for had a global call last week on Wednesday at 5am local time. I was ready with a 15minute alarm so I could have time to spare. Just find the item on my teams schedule and click the link thought.
So Wednesday comes, I wake up, run to the laptop, plug in my security dongle hit the on button… The thing takes a fucking 4 minutes to start for whatever the fuck reason. Hmm ok, I have a few more minutes, no problem! Click the… Fuck! It’s just a photo!!! Ok find the original invite! Found it! Click the link! Surely this takes me directly to the meeting, right? Right? No! Its a fucking download! Oh ok where did that shit go? To the downloads folder! Ok click! Ok now getting into the meeting! Finally! Shit! No volume! Where’s the un-mute! The fucking unmute! What’s she saying? Fuck! There! Done!..
“So that’s how you can enter information into our database… If you have any questions feel free to contact me directly blah blah thanks for joining, good bye!”
So I scrambled to the link to find a make-up session. Found it, signed up. Now for 38 minutes ago local time fucking midnight. Same fucking ordeal to get to the stupid fucking teams meeting for a fucking recording!!!
Holy fucking donkey shit! They made me do all that for a recording that could have just been sent as a link for me to see at my leasure at any moment during a normal business hour!!!
I need two uncomfortable foldable chairs, duct tape and a bat. Not a corked bat. I need a 2X4 with a handle or a lead pipe. One chair is for the asshole who figured out a way to make computers so fucking useless at Microsoft. The other is for the total wackjob who thinks you need a midnight or 5 am meeting to watch a 10 minute video recording. You both should be very ashamed of being people. Heck, no, be ashamed of being animals at all. Things that are not inanimate. Holy jeezets you both are so stupid!
Ok, now I’m going to sleep. Goodbye! Have a wonderful day y’all!
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The fact that ‘meeting that should have been an email’ and ‘5am’ would make me way more pissed at the job than the shitty software. Unless I’m on the clock or getting paid overtime, that meeting can suck my balls. 110%, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Not if the building is on fire, not that the CEO perished in a freak accident, nothing. That is absolute horseshit and they can brief me when I am on the clock next. Or, you know, they can email me. Like they should have initially.
Microsoft teams and shitty management shafted me out of a job that could have been pretty sweet.
Remote interview. Click the link to join the room. Just me alone. Back out and back in. Me alone. Wait 5 minutes to see if its some kind of patience test because they said the interview would take 45 minutes but I cant think a single reason why it would take more than 5. Reply to the email telling them Im here alone. Send an email to the company checking if ive been sent the right time or link. Wait in silence for a full hour. Receive an automated email rebuking me for not attending the interview and that I’ve been blacklisted for applying for the company for 12 months.
Just. Fuck. Off.
Even to call Microsofts attempts at software mediocre would be a compliment.
They make profoundly shit software at every level.
Microsoft: if you can’t make it good, make it mandatory.
Were you being paid for this ungodly hour activity?
lol.
yes…but no… but yes.
salaried employees don’t get paid depending on how long or when they work.
almost guarantee op is salaried.
Pretty US centric world view. Depending on where OP lives it might be vastly different.
…what? Salaried vs hourly is in no way specific to the US.
Of course it is. I’m salaried and I’m very much forbidden to work at night without a specific additional contract. So my salaried ass just can say “no” to any requests to look at stuff at 2 am in the morning without any repercussions. If they want me to do that, that has to be negotiated and has to be paid separately.
that sounds very specific to your country. the majority of salaried positions in the world have little to no regulation.
your position is enviable, and I feel like you just wanted to humble brag about it.
Not really specific. Quite some counties have regulations and protections for their workers. I want to point out that the “default” option shouldn’t be displayed as the norm, even if it is common, because it is the worst possible option. It normalises a situation which shouldn’t be normal (and can be fought).
There is no way to point out the differences without making an example. In this case I was able to use my own situation as an example, in other cases where I’m not in a so lucky situation, I would have used a more general one.
