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Work has decided to switch our phone stuff to a VOIP service so we get calls through the laptop. Oh, and we aren't allowed to connect a bluetooth

Posted by sycor Jul 28 '23, 09:03

device. So essentially every is using speaker phone until they distribute plug in headsets at an unknown future time.

Let me tell you well this is going so far today between installs not working, connection, issues, etc.

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I haven't had a phone at my desk since like 2018. just mobile. they offered me one at my current place, I declined. -- nm - mafic Jul 28, 09:47
We use Teams for just about every meeting at this point. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 09:34 9
- Teams is rare in our org. It's almost all Zoom. There was one instance of a GoToMeeting but that might be an urban legend. -- nm - Bari Seldon Jul 28, 10:12 1
  - GTM can F all the way off. Ugh. - Pippy Quintas Jul 28, 10:37
- We’ll see about that! -- nm* - EU proposed suit against Microsoft Jul 28, 09:45
- yes but this is for talking to clients and the public. I'm sure people will feel some kind of way if it sounds like I'm on speaker when I'm asking - sycor Jul 28, 09:41 1
  - Yeah, the no bluetooth headphones or anything is crap. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 10:11
- same and the dial-phone / call center addons for it too -- nm* - budice Jul 28, 09:38
- *hiss*. Sign of the cross - Will Hunting Jul 28, 09:35 2
  - I hated it initially. The current version is damn near seamless for everything. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 10:10 1
    - I *hate* that nothing goes away easily and I get added to teams I don't care about or am involved in. - Will Hunting Jul 28, 10:28
I don’t know how many companies actually survive, honestly. Dumb luck, I think. -- nm* - Qale Jul 28, 09:30 3
- We're the government. So the level of dumb is pretty normal. LOL -- nm - sycor Jul 28, 09:40 1
  - We’re the largest retailer in Texas and we have the absolute worst POS system with no tap to pay, no digital wallets, and cards go in upside down. - Qale Jul 28, 09:45
- I'm sure it is somewhat specific to our industry but we have to provide internet service on our construction jobsites for our resident engineers - oblique Jul 28, 09:33
Hopefully it's better than the garbage softphone we have to mirror our desk phones. -- nm - spamlet Jul 28, 09:20
I've been lowkey looking at the same thing for a while but yeah. We'd probably be also deploying physical handsets still as some people are weirdly - oblique Jul 28, 09:19 2
- I just don't want to yell at the laptop like I'm on speaker phone. Especially not in the office with everyone. Not deploying headsets before the - sycor Jul 28, 09:39 1
  - very -- nm - oblique Jul 28, 09:47
no Bluetooth kinda sux. VOIP works ok, guess the install not a clean start -- nm - budice Jul 28, 09:05 2
- I guess they didn't consider an agency of 250 people trying to install and connect all at once was a bad idea. -- nm - sycor Jul 28, 09:06 1
  - there it is, can be smooth but gotta plan better obvie -- nm - budice Jul 28, 09:07

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