Human men and women are not isolated. They fuck like rabbits already, less consequences would mean a lot more unprotected sex.

A lot more unwanted babies

Slack and Teams are not the same, Slack is a communications app, not a collaboration app.

I know how to use Teams properly, and I have entire departments (government, universities, etc) that I have trained to use it and they get mad every time their IT departments try to introduce a new product that Teams (and M365) already handle just fine.

Mom and Dad didn’t do their fucking research before buying it and didn’t bother to read the fucking manual after they did buy it.

Don’t tell me the average user is correct when I get called into help offices multiple times a year that are still using Excel sheets to manage their vacation requests, manage their tasks on a blackboard on the wall of the office (even though they’re half remote), build their HR forms in Adobe, and have network drives with 90,000 files in 20,000 folders where nobody can find anything all while already owning M365 licenses.

People aren’t using Teams’ integrated collaboration features properly, and it’s not because they’re worse than their existing processes and they have some sort of magic ultra-efficient system already, it’s because they simply do not know how to use them properly.

It’s not like Michelangelo did it without significant training.

“Among them was Domenico Ghirlandaio, a master in fresco painting, perspective, figure drawing and portraiture who had the largest workshop in Florence.[16] In 1488, at the age of 13, Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio.” -From Wikipedia

He didn’t paint the chapel until 20 years later.

High Omega-3 Diets are linked to lower rates of RA, same with Vitamin D.

Moderate alcohol intake (1-3 drinks per week) is also associated with lower autoimmune risk, but they don’t know why yet.

Dental disease is linked to RA, so keep your teeth clean.

Last but not least, decent sleep.

Because it’s not a chat app. It’s a communications and collaboration platform. It has chat in it, but it also contains a significant amount of other functionality that you clearly aren’t even aware of.

People don’t even know what they don’t know about this app.

It’s like consider a full RV as a “car”, sure it can get you from a to b, but that’s not really it’s intended use case and you’re going to have a bad time if you’re trying to use it to drop your kids off at school every day. If you know how to drive a car, you’re probably still going to need extra training to both drive and use the features of the RV properly too.

I have bad news for you, that’s how humans work too. They get trained on how to draw/paint/etc. on copyrighted material, then make derivatives.

Then you haven’t met an entire team that had proper training on how to use it.

I don’t mean a 1 hour lunch and learn.

There is plenty of light for zoom.

No there isn’t, if you have to adjust the brightness digitally the camera itself is not getting enough light based on what it was designed for.

Teams does have a brightness setting, it’s just a toggle rather than a slider. If that still isn’t enough, then you are sitting in a pitch black room. I just tested this, with every light in my room off, including the overhead and the direct facial lighting, the teams toggle is enough to make me reasonably visible in the light from my screen alone.

I don’t need the toggle on at all with an overhead light on, and the annoying shadows from the overhead room light go away with my facial lighting on.

Here’s a $21 clip on USB powered laptop ring light, https://www.amazon.com/Meyin-Brightness-Conference-Broadcasting-Streaming/dp/B0D1DTF7H6

I hate your IT department.

There are settings for notifications in every single app these users have ever encountered in both their professional personal lives. The basic understand for apps by users it that notification settings exist. They may not know that there is a specific option to turn one specific type of notification on, but they should know they can turn shit off.

I’ve never noticed an issue with the muting thing, It’s a fraction of a second when joining to pick what settings I want for that meeting which does vary so it’s helpful to have.

Brightness settings for Camera… holy shit… Light yourself properly. Ring lights are $30 on amazon, get one and look actually professional when attending your meetings.

I literally use this tool on a daily basis, it works very well. I’m not spouting anything marketing related, only how I see and use it.

A communications platform allows you to talk to each other via text, voice, video.

A collaboration platform allows you to work on information together which includes things like document co-authoring(SharePoint and Office) and group task management(Planner), but can extend much further into things like Shared Pages (OneNote or Loop), Database-lite systems with Forms (SharePoint Lists, Power Apps), Workflows (Power Automate), and more.

So why do you have M365 then?

You aren’t using it for e-mail, you aren’t using it for file storage, but you’re using it to host meetings?

What a stupid concept, get a fucking communications tool that is ONLY a communications tool.

If the data isn’t in M365, it can hardly be Microsoft’s fault if the data was stolen.

Personal addresses, Salaries, Leaves, etc. should all be stored in proper HR systems.

I understand how people work, managers skimp on training because they think their users will understand without it, and users gripe about software because they didn’t get said training.

Expecting user training is not a stretch for software. Nobody expects you to know how pivot tables or formulas work in Excel without having received training at some point, but for some reason managers don’t expect the same from Teams’ features.

Anyone who has a software license for Teams has their entire suite, and Microsoft doesn’t market enterprise products to end users.

Then people who do like it wouldn’t even know it exists. It’s usually better in an environment that lacks standard training for every user to enable by default, and then have the users disable if they don’t want it.

Your car has ABS, but you don’t have to turn it on to use it, it’s on by default and users can (usually) turn it off when they don’t want it.

It only annoys some users, a lot of people like knowing someone has acknowledged their message.

The literal point of teams it is to integrate systems from the entire ecosystem, using them in isolation is antithetical to that.

No, it’s not.

Teams is a Communications and Collaboration tool, not strictly a communications tool. It makes certain tradeoffs in order to optimize it for it’s intended use case.