What bugs the heck out of you at work but doesn't seem to bother your coworkers?

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Teams! It literally never works on Linux and you cannot change a single thing about it. I'm so tired of having to tell people that today my teams cannot share shit, which worked flawlessly yesterday.
- Teams is garbage. This comes from someone who used it on windows, both on the app and web versions.
  
  In teams, people above you get reports on all of the time you’ve spent in teams and can see all of your “private messages”! There’s a whole-ass dashboard for it!
  
  Hmmm I hope that's not also the case with private messages on teams some 5 years ago. Pretty sure there was some condescending chats about uni teachers over private messages.
  Oh well, I've graduated anyway and never again used the messaging function after that.
- For anyone on Linux: teams-for-linux is an unofficial client that works way better than the official client. It's also in AUR
- Teams is shit. I use it at work on Windows, and it's still shit.
  Searching something in the chat? Complete dogshit. Half the times it just straight up doesn't work, the rest of the times it shows only the message where searched word is present and not the point in discussion when this message happened.
  Keybinds. Non-customisable. Keybinds. Who in their right mind does that?! I once heard that keybind customisation would confuse "normies", which is complete moot. So-called "normies" won't go to the settings (or at least, to keybinds) anyway and will be either satisfied with defaults or won't use them at all.
  It also cannot restrict how many notifications it displays in the corner - so when things are getting spicier at work, it spams whole right side of your screen (gods help you if you were working on the laptop with small screen atm, cause getting shit done will be impossible). So your 2 options will be to mute everything or continue getting spammed. And then the whole point that it is even worse on Linux. And it's web version is crap, too. And that it is a bloted, laggy mess that is more in my way when I work than helps me.
  Rant over, I guess?
  
  the rest of the times it shows only the message where searched word is present and not the point in discussion when this message happened.
  Uh, I just click the message and it sends you to the conversation where you can check what was said.
  So your 2 options will be to mute everything or continue getting spammed.
  You can also mute only the chat that's being spammy, but I agree with this one because I can't mute it for X mins and such.
  It's curious how when the pandemic started people around me were super happy with Teams, comparing it to Google Meet and other meeting software, because it was one of the best services that simply worked, and over time they became more angry with it for all the bugs and weird decisions.
  
  How bout the fact that everyone above you can see everything you do and all your “private messages”?
  
  Can they? I don't really care, I don't use the corporate chat for personal things. I will act without regard to that, and if it comes to my knowledge that they did read them for the sake of controlling me, I'm going to fucking leave the company after talking to HR, that's an issue with the boss not the tool.
  I do find that useful in a corporate scenario, where if someone leaves the should be able to retrieve all the information shared on those chats, and if you suspect that someone is saying things they really shouldn't to clients or colleagues, being able to check it is good.
- I miss Teams. It was so bad, that anytime I forgot something, I was able to blame teams and no one questioned it. Since then I changed jobs, so can't do it anymore.
- I use Teams very sparingly at work, but it occasionally decides it wants to auto-start when Windows turns on (ignoring my settings that disable it on startup).
  Teams also occasionally decides that it wants to disconnect/break my Bluetooth headset connection. I don't always need Teams to do my job, but my Bluetooth headset is always required for what I do. The only way to restore functionality when this happens is to close Teams. I haven't figured out why it happens only some of the times, but it's annoying as fuck. I don't have that issue with any other programs doing that to my input devices.
  
  If I had to guess, Teams is getting small updates when that happens to you. You have it turned off on startup, but if it gets an update and the end of that update is a restart of the program. And poorly designed updates tend to reset connections or settings. And Teams loves its updates. I wouldn't turn off the auto updates though if I was you. Usually they are security updates.

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