One of our managers does that and I message her anyway just to make a point.
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Yes my manager does that too! And sometimes people message saying 'I'm getting in touch as it seems like he's been off for 2 weeks now and this can't wait any longer, so can you deal with it in his absence'.
So it's actually effecting tasks as people are seeing his status as offline and waiting to get in touch... When he's been there the whole time!
Also have a colleague who appears offline all day, every day. We’ve been told we’re not to do it, but no one manages it properly. The guy is a giant man-baby.
When I started working where I am now, my co worker put my status to offline. Just like hers because we never used teams. Then our apprentice overslept by hours as they’d been watching the football the night before and was drunk. No one could get hold of them and it was after that, that we all had to put ourselves as available. 
Talking of teams, when we wfh, lazy colleague always disappears offline around school drop off and pick up time. This can be 45 mins each time. TL’s bum chum had pointed it out to the TL and it turns out she (allegedly) had no idea he had been doing this and he should have asked. He has been doing this for as long as he has been working here, btw and he never makes the time up.
Talking of teams, when we wfh, lazy colleague always disappears offline around school drop off and pick up time. This can be 45 mins each time. TL’s bum chum had pointed it out to the TL and it turns out she (allegedly) had no idea he had been doing this and he should have asked. He has been doing this for as long as he has been working here, btw and he never makes the time up.
In a previous workplace the team was spread across different locations. The manager was a micro-manager. He could have just looked in people's calendars to see where they were every day... But instead he made us do a roll-call, like schoolkids.
Every morning the teams chat was like this (and therefore he knew when everyone had logged in):
Morning, I'm wfh
Hi, I'm in the Reading office today
I'm visiting a supplier in York
And on and on - endless notifications first thing in the morning. Was very annoying if you were sharing your screen at 9am and they'd all pop up in the corner.
Every morning the teams chat was like this (and therefore he knew when everyone had logged in):
Morning, I'm wfh
Hi, I'm in the Reading office today
I'm visiting a supplier in York
And on and on - endless notifications first thing in the morning. Was very annoying if you were sharing your screen at 9am and they'd all pop up in the corner.
My boss can't work out how to get a participant list on teams so every conference call starts with a roll call like it's primary school.
My bloody team mates are so bloody rude.
A team meeting and they only stay engaged for their bit and then tune out. Its how you learn whats going on. The newer one who quite clearly has no clue about a huge part of her job just clicks away all day I stopped talking everytime she did it she didnt notice but boss did.
Newbie dropped herself in it by asking what X is when she has supposedly has been giving talks on it for last month.
My jaw actually fell open at that.
I suspect she wont be staying long so hopefully she wont screw too much up before she leaves.
A team meeting and they only stay engaged for their bit and then tune out. Its how you learn whats going on. The newer one who quite clearly has no clue about a huge part of her job just clicks away all day I stopped talking everytime she did it she didnt notice but boss did.
Newbie dropped herself in it by asking what X is when she has supposedly has been giving talks on it for last month.
My jaw actually fell open at that.
I suspect she wont be staying long so hopefully she wont screw too much up before she leaves.
I find leading our team meetings so frustrating, no one engages and I feel like I’m just talking at them, which is what they’ve complained that our boss does (I have to step in for him in his absence which is why I’m leading currently). Morale is very low at my company at the moment and I get it, but surely if you hate just being talked at then you’d engage when I ask you questions?
I'm dreading tomorrow
Good Friday is tit can't stand any of the Friday staff managers decided Friday the busiest day of the week was the right day to take a staff member away to check the money weekly and this takes at least 2 3 hours when we are so short staffed and witch colleague was like the managers stressed don't give him a hard time I literally had to walk away before I said something to get me definitely sacked
Good Friday is tit can't stand any of the Friday staff managers decided Friday the busiest day of the week was the right day to take a staff member away to check the money weekly and this takes at least 2 3 hours when we are so short staffed and witch colleague was like the managers stressed don't give him a hard time I literally had to walk away before I said something to get me definitely sacked
People who Teams call me when my status clearly says out of office. There's even a purple banner that tells them I am out of office and may not respond. But they call anyway, I guess thinking I might be walking around carrying my laptop on and open?
Someone even "suggested" I bring my laptop with me on vacation. "Just check it every so often!" they (not) helpfully said. That's a "No Way".
Someone even "suggested" I bring my laptop with me on vacation. "Just check it every so often!" they (not) helpfully said. That's a "No Way".
When someone wants something done urgently at 4.55 the day before the Easter weekend. Gotta be having a laugh.
I have a few in my team like this too, absolutely no interest in others.
Also though people who can’t sit through a short meeting without tapping away on their laptops, when did people become so important they can’t sit through a meeting without responding to messages or emails.
We had some very important training last year that completely reshaped our work and what we do. The trainer asked us to close our laptops. For the first day and a half my boss sat there answering emails and Teams messages until I eventually said something. It was so bleeping rude. No wonder he doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing.
Our main team meetings are a bit painful. The timing really doesn’t help either- it’s like 2 hours and awkwardly placed at a time where you essentially lose an hour before it because you can’t just get stuck into something. The same faces always contribute or speak up because they always interrupt anyone else that tries or if you don’t have the perfect cult-like response then there’s negative consequences. So you can’t say “I had an idea of doing this x way as it might save us time/ be beneficial” because you get “well we’ve always done it this way, our way isn’t wrong”. As a result it’s like pulling teeth when leadership try and get us to say anything.
We had a training course earlier this year and our manager did the same thing - sat there with her laptop open, clearly working. She even popped out a couple of times to take calls. I honestly don’t know why she bothered to go on the course when she’s always going on about how busy she is.
Had to give a presentation to the level above me about inclusive behaviours and they didn't seem pleased when I told them they were disrespectful for all being on their laptops tapping away while I was talking. The following time (I was amazed I was invited back tbh) only one of them was on his laptop and he's always been a bleep. Bet they do it to most people though.
Our managers are so overloaded with meetings every day, there's no way they'd get anything done if they didn't work during meetings and calls. They literally have 6-8 meetings every day. My manager actually advised me to work during meetings on days when my schedule is loaded with them. We are all muted and not on camera so it's easy to do, albeit I have missed someone asking me a question because I was answering an email or completing some data entry!
If you can work during a meeting it's either an unnecessary meeting or you needn't have been invited. These managers need to push back on attending but if it's like my work they won't because it's all about being in the same meeting as someone you're trying to impress rather than making meaningful contributions which result in progress.