Yammer Sycophants

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

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What is it with these utter bum lappers that post glowing anecdotes about their boss or company or home town. If you've ever posted anything on your company Yammer you need to seek therapy in this thread.

It's ******* pathetic.
 
At work we just moved over to Yammer from [whatever it was before, I dunno]. I don't really understand it, tbh. Just get messages about car parking etc popping up in my Teams app.
 
I don't get the point of yammer, especially if you have teams set up AND an intranet... seems like yet another place to post the same information. No wonder we have to hire so many internal comms people!
 
I used to love Yammer a few years ago, one of the clients I was working for used it as a messaging board as opposed to any real work stuff. Was like a forum, I was in a car group, f1 group, gaming group...was easy to just spend a whole day posting on Yammer
 
Freefaller said:
I don't get the point of yammer, especially if you have teams set up AND an intranet... seems like yet another place to post the same information. No wonder we have to hire so many internal comms people!
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Indeed. Especially when you've got SharePoint too.

I fully expect Yammer to be absorbed by SharePoint or dropped, unless it's used far more than I think it is.
 
In our firm, all the Philippines employees were literally using it as a Facebook alternative. The legit global CTO had to post saying guys wtf are you doing :cry:

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Steedie said:
I used to love Yammer a few years ago, one of the clients I was working for used it as a messaging board. Was like a forum, I was in a car group, f1 group, gaming group...was easy to just spend a whole day posting on Yammer
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Used to have something similar when I was at GE. Asian staff, particularly Indians constantly posting saying how excellent the company was, how brilliant x individual was, how y project was inspiring etc.
Then you'd get a delightful circle jerk, oh it was great to work with you, you're ideas were genius, no yours were, no yours were.
 
Yaayuh! said:
Indeed. Especially when you've got SharePoint too.

I fully expect Yammer to be absorbed by SharePoint or dropped, unless it's used far more than I think it is.
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As Steedie said, people spend a lot of time just posting on yammer (or at least you can easily spend time doing it if it's a busy set up). As someone that doesn't use facebook, or social media in general, I find it quite pointless as if I want information I go to the intranet, or speak to people that know about the subject (I like speaking to people).

what's funny is that there was a push in one of my companies for senior leaders to post more on there and be more engaged - whereas in fact staff much preferred senior leaders to see them face to face or in a townhall setting or out on site or whatever. Ok during covid lockdown it was a good mechanism for idle chit chat, but I don't think there's any productivity gain - it's a good social outlet, but unneeded if you have other collaboration tools, or are like most normal human beings and go and chat to people.
 
Dis86 said:
Used to have something similar when I was at GE. Asian staff, particularly Indians constantly posting saying how excellent the company was, how brilliant x individual was, how y project was inspiring etc.
Then you'd get a delightful circle jerk, oh it was great to work with you, you're ideas were genius, no yours were, no yours were.
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This. It gives me the boak.
 
Freefaller said:
As Steedie said, people spend a lot of time just posting on yammer (or at least you can easily spend time doing it if it's a busy set up). As someone that doesn't use facebook, or social media in general, I find it quite pointless as if I want information I go to the intranet, or speak to people that know about the subject (I like speaking to people).

what's funny is that there was a push in one of my companies for senior leaders to post more on there and be more engaged - whereas in fact staff much preferred senior leaders to see them face to face or in a townhall setting or out on site or whatever. Ok during covid lockdown it was a good mechanism for idle chit chat, but I don't think there's any productivity gain - it's a good social outlet, but unneeded if you have other collaboration tools, or are like most normal human beings and go and chat to people.
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Other than social stuff, it's main use where I work seems to be for people asking questions where they literally have no idea where to start - the virtual equivalent of standing in the middle of an open plan office shouting 'does anyone know who deals with X?' but not having had to drive 2 hours to the office to do so, probably only to be told the person you needed is in a different office another 2 hours away.
 
Kenai said:
Other than social stuff, it's main use where I work seems to be for people asking questions where they literally have no idea where to start - the virtual equivalent of standing in the middle of an open plan office shouting 'does anyone know who deals with X?' but not having had to drive 2 hours to the office to do so, probably only to be told the person you needed is in a different office another 2 hours away.
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That seems more sensible - though we just have a teams channel for that (i.e. "general discussion" equivalent). However I can see how it can be used but to me at least it just seems like an extra layer. I guess if it's used properly it can be good, but most times it's not implemented in a way that lends itself to productivity.
 
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