We have teams. It sucks. They’re going to make us use it for phone calls soon.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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Users as in (office) workers. I cast a enormous doubt that there is no living person who chose Teams over literally any other messaging app just to use it for their main way of communication outside of their workspace.
“Users may hate”
Sweety, we already hate everything MS. Take a wild guess…
Management on the other hand ..
Am management. Still hate it. Costs a fucking fortune, sprawls beyond any reasonable control, fucking impossible to secure, every product has its own operating model and support, it changes every month, and the notion of leaving it is absurd. It is a disease that everyone is infected with and their sales people will never let you go. Also, it's not like I can log into a central portal and see my employees on a map or something. I can't see their searches, their teams chats, nothing really. Maybe HR could if they weren't in the parking lot eating old cigarette butts or whatever it is they do.
Its like herpes.
Yep, not to mention it's a basic messaging program, but it regularly uses 1-2gb of ram on a lot of machines at my workplace. Had a coworker vibe code a lightweight version (terminal based), he pretty easily got it down to 80ish mb, and it mostly worked (the whole thing was mostly for shits and giggles, but surprisingly usable).
I am logged in through vpn and use the web version. Microslop sucks
im sure there ar eother ways of tracking thier progress, like thier work/projects done on a deadline. its more or less a control issue.
Since teams is for connecting people remotely (office to office, office to other departments, etc) what sense does this make?
Being "in office" has nothing to do with my location.
Microsoft sucks so much.
Easier to control if your employee is actually at the office instead of working from home.
It's not like the pandemic proved most office jobs could actually be done remotely...
Basically, Microsoft Places and Teams have received workplace check-ins via Wi-Fi. The idea is that if an employee arrives at the office and connects to their enterprise network, their profile status indicator will show them as being present in the office.
Joke's on you. My work is so stingy, they don't offer WiFi to employees. Also, I've blocked location permissions in Teams, just in case.
God damn I hate this universe, why is technology a tool to create new shackles instead of breaking old ones
If it's a new Teams feature I'm going to hate it regardless of what it does. MS doesn't make software for human beings any more.
I too have a hard time seeing management as human,
We aren't. When you humans are busy working, we go to the basement and eat the remants of your souls.
We also go to a lot of pointless meetings.
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it reduces the need to manually update your status, and it also enables co-workers to know that you're at work so that they can coordinate in-person meetings with you.
They're not even trying with these weak ass justifications anymore. Are either of these things an actual problem for anyone?
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users have the ability to control whether they want to enable it or not
So just don't enable it then.
Home users, corporate users have group ~~police~~ edit: policy... Same thing
Its likely they will be forced to and it may even be enforced by group policy at some time in the future if its not already
Was there ever a MS Teams feature anyone actually liked? Seems like the whole product is based on loathing.
Teams isn't made for the users.
I can't for the life of me figure out who it is for.
Management wanting to track your activity, Microsoft wanting your data,...
Features Microsoft wants to push and features companies want. It's widely used because IT departments can just buy Office 365 and have all of the office apps and support for however they're hosting the rest of their office 365 apps but that doesn't mean it's good
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