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Anyone else snoop on MS Teams Last Online?

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MicrosoftTeamsTwat · 28/06/2024 19:31

Obvs inspired by an active thread where the poor MNetters DH is being taken for gross misconduct as he’s been found to be not logged in for +2hrs a day…

I will admit to often looking on my ahem less performing team members when they go amber on WFH days and it’s always ‘LAST SEEN 2 HOURS AGO’ at like 3pm in the afternoon, and it’s always the same people consistently throughout the day, they must work (be green/red) 3 hours max a day…and I always wonder how they get away with it - although if the other threads anything to go by perhaps no one will for much longer.

Will absolutely caveat this post with the fact that I definitely sometimes take a slightly longer lunch, and also put the washing out, see you chores and generally make the most of WFH on those days but genuinely I’m never offline more than an hour a day, so I do get a bit peeved that my team mates just seem to get away with it.

Sooo..

YANBU: Everyone checks their lazy colleagues last online and wouldn’t be sad if they were pulled up on it
YABU: Be prepared to suck up others workloads as companies aren’t pulling up their employees..

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NextPhaseOfLife · 28/06/2024 20:24

Ooh - where is the original thread?

StJulian2023 · 28/06/2024 20:21

Yeah, what previous posters said. Probably about half of my work was on Teams today, other half not. So I’d have appeared idle for that part of the day, but alas I wasn’t.

Yellow2024 · 28/06/2024 20:21

I'm always snooping 😂
Our work load is up and down though so like today I only really had about an hour of actual work to do so I keep an eye on my emails but that's about it.

AgnesX · 28/06/2024 20:19

My Teams goes amber after 10 minutes 🙄 Even if I'm reading a flipping document I have to remember to nudge. That said as long as I answer to my managers' incessant last minute demands there's never a problem.

HandyDandyNotebookWanker · 28/06/2024 20:19

I do a lot of reading from actual print books and so often go to orange even though I'm physically at my desk and quite willing and able to answer messages and calls. Sometimes, I'll set a status message to say this; sometimes, I just try to remember to jiggle the mouse every so often to stop my laptop going to sleep.

I hate the whole Teams changing to orange thing.

EatTheGnome · 28/06/2024 20:19

Mine often goes into an away status when I'm not interacting with Teams - which is normal for my job. I hope my boss doesn't assume I'm a lazy cunt but doesn't have the bollocks to have a conversation or address any perceived dips in performance.

LaughingElderberry · 28/06/2024 20:14

cirillaofcintra · 28/06/2024 20:03

At home, I work on my PC because it has a bigger screen, then have Teams open on a separate laptop at the side for meetings. So I would definitely appear as away for hours when I hadn't been. Some people might just be using two devices?

Same. If I am working on other documents and haven't "clicked" Teams (normally because it's minimised if I'm doing other stuff) then it often goes to amber/away. It's also not uncommon for people who are concentrating to set their status to appear offline or appear away.

mrsfollowill · 28/06/2024 20:09

I honestly don't think it's always accurate either. I WFH as does everyone in my team- my boss was showing offline all morning and I needed to speak to her. I asked a colleague if they knew where she was - she was scheduled to be in and available. Colleague was WFT are you on about?! she's been working since 7am and was showing available to her 🙄

cirillaofcintra · 28/06/2024 20:03

At home, I work on my PC because it has a bigger screen, then have Teams open on a separate laptop at the side for meetings. So I would definitely appear as away for hours when I hadn't been. Some people might just be using two devices?

juniorspesh · 28/06/2024 19:34

I’m so glad I’m self-employed. I didn’t even know you could do that. Seems invasive!

The time you spend checking up on your colleagues and thinking about what they’re doing is skiving too.

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