To not like impromptu calls on MS Teams?

If your dot is green, you are available.

If you're busy you can change your dot to red. If you want to focus on something you can add focus time

I would take a teams call over a lengthy email chain any god damned day of the week.

My team ring each other multiple times throughout the day without checking first. Outside our team we’d usually message first and say “are you free for 5 mins” or something along those lines.

Depends on the closeness of the team and the culture of the organisation I guess.

Just like a normal phone you don’t have to answer! I don’t if I’m about to go into a diarised meeting (it’s never just 2 min and I don’t like being late to a meeting).

So don’t answer. Decline the call. Ping a note to the caller and say - sorry, I’ll call you back in 5/10/15/30 mins.
Just because someone is calling you, it doesn’t mean you have to answer.

Automatic divert to voicemail has been a blessing.

It's more about how would be best to communicate.

I'm often in a teleconf. on camera with lots of people, where I don't have to concentrate all the time, just have to be available to talk if 'my' stuff is under discussion.

In that situation, I can provide a quick answer to a written message but not actually answer or have a spoken conversation.

That’s OK, you do you.

Those of us who don’t like calls will continue ignoring them where we can.

We all operate differently 😎

As someone who still works in person and still gets lots of phone calls, I can't see the problem!

Office work is information overload now. Years ago we had calls but we now have calls online meetings and emails all taking time away from doing the job. You have to switch to dnd in order to concentrate. Bring back the paper memo. ;)

I hate it when someone messages me first. It's wasted time having to reply. I'm not obliged to answer when someone rings, so the ringing is the notice.

I actually started this week funnily enough as I had a major burnout last week and had to take friday off with a migraine and wondered why I was finding it hard to cope Typing it out here it just seems mental and now I can clearly see why. Ive been doing this job for a year now.

NRTFT - Barely managed the first post but no, YANBU in my opinion. I hate it when people cold call me on Teams. I could be presenting in a meeting, focussing on a tricky piece of writing or talking to someone else at my desk. I could even, heaven forfend, be on the loo. I also have around 5-6 hours of Teams meetings a day on average so if you want some time, do me the goddamn courtesy of checking what time might work for me.

Yes, I grew up with phones, even had a fax machine in my first job. Not generational in my case.

However, I know the worst offenders at my work so now I’ve changed their calling tune to Ride of The Valkyries which makes their calls a million times more bearable!

It’s not much different. They can all fuck off 😂

That’s awful @Crazybaby123 I just couldn’t operate with all that going on.

Can you look for another job?

I dont understand how you're thinking of a teams call as being different to a phone call or someone walking over to your desk in you're in an office....

That's fine, presumably you just don't answer then and phone back? If you were in court or in interview or just away from your desk at any length of time I thought your status automatically turned to offline but that might just be my settings.

Mines open constantly, it is how we communicate,l and collaborate as a remote team, we dont email except for official messages, I spend 90 percent of my day on teams am in about 10 active team collaboration chats. It gives me a headache so learned the tricks. Today I was in a teams meeting at thr same time as replying to people on teams then other chats kept pinging and people were pinging me on other chats asking why i had not replied to the teams chat on the other chat. I also have three comletely separate team and email accounts on the same computer, two different client accounts and one is my consultancies account. I manage them in different browser windows. They are open throughout the day.
Actually, I have been feeling really stressed this week and I have just worked out why by typing this out. My life is ridiculous.

Technology is meant to SAVE effort. Now you’re communicating to ask if it’s ok to communicate? It’s insane.

It’s like when washing machines were invented. People just washed their clothes more often. No labour was saved.

Humans are mad.

If I'm not in a very formal meeting and the ceo or coo call, I jump. I don't ecoect them to let me know in advance. If I want to speak to them I drop a msg to ask if and when they may be free.

If my team (reports) are not in a meeting, I call without messaging and expect the call to be answered. Usually they check to see of I am free before calling.

Cameras expected to be on at all times. People expected to be work ready between 9am and 5pm (more like 8am and 7pm for senior staff).

Before covid, we didn't walk into people's offices with bags over our heads and don't do it now. Therefore, cameras on.

Work is an important social construct.

It's the etiquette where I work to message before. I can be showing as green but that doesn't mean I'm actually free to take a call - in the same way that if someone came over to my desk and I was in the middle of something, I might ask them if they could wait 10 minutes or whatever. There is also no culture of taking calls at your desk in our office and so you're unlikely to be in a spot where you can take a call unless it's prearranged.

We check by a quick message on Teams before calling. It feels civilised 😄.

You may like this then https://nohello.net/en/

Overall … I do feel like Teams calls are different to normal ones. In lockdown I think it was because we all WFH and it felt intrusive. Now I guess in the office I have to put my headset on, and might not even have it out and plugged in yet. It’s not team culture to do it though, so it does tend to induce mild panic … a bit like back in the day if I called my parents before 6pm and they’d want to know what was wrong …

I nearly always send a message first to say ‘are you free’. But I also don’t mind when my immediate colleagues cold call me on teams. I don’t like it if a colleague I don’t know from the wider organisation calls, but generally they’d send a message.

I guess it’s the generation we are in now. No-one likes calls without notice, personal or work.

It's just like someone ringing me on a desk phone to me.

If i can answer I will, and I'm as introverted and antisocial as anyone.

I actually hate it when ppl message me to say can I call. Just ring me, if I'm green I'm available.