Current company uses MacBooks and Google workspace (gmail, docs, etc) and I’m now applying for external roles. I am guessing quite a few of these companies are using PCs and MS Office. It’s been 10 years since I’ve used a PC and MS products… how do I learn to use these again and is it easy to transition? I realize that sounds ridiculous but hey, I have to use these products again for the first time in forever for 40+hrs a week so thought I’d ask! Seems like PCs have come a long way since then.

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Ms teams is awful. But boomers love it, and SharePoint.

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Boomer IT leadership likes that Teams is bundled in their O365 license so don’t have to pay more for WebEx or Zoom or Slack or whatever.

Users are pretty uniform in their hatred. A common enemy unites us across generations.

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Teams is trash, it consumes a lot of processing power and freezes my pc

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And it won’t stay connected to BT headsets. I have 32 GB of RAM and Teams will drop audio completely every two minutes because of lack of memory.

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Wait until you learn about MS Teams. Grab a stress ball and box of tissues now, you’ll need them.

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Shit lol good to know

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