Venting about work 

I think it might be time to look for a new job.

They're going to cut off my team from accessing:
• Slack
• Skype
• Dropbox
• Google Drive
• Google Docs
• Gmail
• Telegram
• Trello
• Assembla (our ticketing system and wiki)
and others

They insist they provide everything we need with:
• MS Teams (bad UI & fewer features)
• Skype for Business (company policy doesn't allow chat history or external contacts)
• MS OneDrive (Eh.)
• Company Email
• ServiceNow (…)
• MS Sharepoint

Venting about work 

@mawr Oof. We're in a very similar boat over here, but have managed to finagle the Atlassian suite on a couple of VMs, plus our own servers. When we swapped from Google to Microsoft for everything, I can't even begin to tell you how much I cursed out the higher-ups. We're still not back to where we were on some things.

Venting about work 

@mawr My favorite stupidities were:
1. When they initially decided they wouldn't both migrating email/files/contacts from one to the other and we'd just lose everything in 6 months.
2. They've now set a two year retention on emails. If you need something older, you have to ask for retention on a PER Email basis.

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Venting about work 

@mawr RE #2: God forbid your engineers would ever have a project last longer than two years... That never happens, right?

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