Teams is such a confusing app. To start off, what is it meant to be? A frontend for onedrive? A chat app? A videocall app? It's like microsoft's attemp to make their own everything app. What was wrong with Skype? Actually, Teams shows up as "skypeforlinux" (complete with a Skype icon) in Pavucontrol, so is the videocalling part of teams just a re-packaged skype? Why does the web version of teams have its own integrated Excel which is slightly different from standard web excel? It feels like the UI was specifically designed to mislead. There is a list of icons on the left that allow you to switch between different contexts in the app. The visual design makes it look like a set of radiobuttons, except clicking on some of them twice does a different action... There is a home screen, and then also a second SUPER HOME screen!? I can't even get angry it at for being a slow bloated jumble of spyware like the rest of microsoft's garbage (which it is), I just feel a sense of morbid fascination every time I'm forced to use it. It feels like an AI-generated app from a future where AI is much more capable but still utterly fails at understanding humans. It's the uncanny valley of user experience.

All of the Microsoft sounds trigger this.

First thing I do is change the default sounds. I wish teams provided some options other than zoom ripoff ringtone

I do a fair bit of freelance and also access a lot of client networks remotely or using their hardware. I have my own licence for ms365 as well on my own hardware.

Teams just doesn't know what the fuck it's doing. It holds on to old accounts from years ago but doesn't recall my own, active account. It behaves in the app sometimes but a lot of the time the browser option is the only viable way. It can't work out that I have a webcam most of the time.

Almost all meetings I have begin with me being 2-3 minutes late and messaging them that teams is being a fuck. And they all laugh knowingly, because everyone literally expects it.

It is the buggiest most unpredictable piece of shit that I have to use almost daily, and almost exclusively with government clients who often have their own weird on prem custom version. I hate it with every atom in my body.

I had this years ago when I was in IT and had the on-call pager. We rotated it around the team so in had it every 6 weeks or so but it sucked hearing it go off in the middle of the night for some random server issue.

I have to use it and it sucks so bad

I swear they intentionally make their app buggy as shit on Linux to punish us for not using Windows.

I keep getting asked at work if I use teams. I tell them I never learned how to use it and I have no intention of learning. I have email when I need something documented. I have a phone when I'm away from my desk, which is most of the time. I can also discuss things face to face, because I'm not afraid of walking across site, since I'm doing that most of the day anyway.

Forza Horizon offered custom horns, one of them was the Teams “someone calling” notification. I would be in a race and use that horn and laugh as another player suddenly goes AFK.

So much corporate misery channeled into a single app

It's the worst at everything it tries to do

the slack notification sound is close second

If you only use it to do video (optional) calls with a handful of people and share screens it is passable. I kind of like it for that, just a phone replacement with optional video and screen sharing.

Anything beyond that though, bleah.

I'm kinda glad I lost my job at the beginning of COVID, we were preparing to move to Teams.