Add to that going back 2-3 slides every 5mins and you get my professor at uni. Watching his classes was actual torture
One of my teachers at uni used a Word document instead of a presentation. And yes, he still read it word for word. It was like a very shitty audiobook
Alternatively, the best live audio textbook performance ever
Or Bob the boomer goes can you go back 3 slides?
There was a guy, I shit you not, that would ask him to go back to the previous slide cause he wasn’t done writing it down
Like bro, i’m almost sure the professor will post the pp online. You dont have to copy the presentation… take shorthand notes…
Nah, he didnt post the presentation online. Still, the slides were worthless and had nothing of value on them, the entire class was really a waste of time, no reason to copy anything
Bob The Boomer may have been passive-aggressively trolling the presenter. “I’m not in here with you, you’re in here with me” kind of thing.
At university, I had a lecturer who took this one step further. Instead of a power point, he used a word document that he read word by word.
Oh no my kid’s school just texted me he got a fever I have to go. Hate to miss the presentation, can you post the slides in chat after? Thx!
Oh thats fine. We’ll have a make up presentation on thursday, i’ll schedule you for that one.
It’s even more fun when your manager makes you do a presentation. And he schedules it at 10pm, so that all the people 12 timezones away can attend at their “morning time.”
But they don’t even bother to join the zoom. The only people attending are also in your timezone up way later than they want to be. And he’s like “it’s ok, we’ll record it for them.” Like wtf.
And then they go and do stupidass incorrect shit anyway, whether they watched the recording or not.
stupidass incorrect shit
like scheduling a meeting at 10pm
If you seriously wanted to communicate something, you wouldn’t do a presentation.
Here is my opinion: Slide should have images, diagrams or charts to illustrate what I say, almost never any text. What I say is written in advance in the notes of the presentation that is only visible to me while presenting, but will be readable by anyone who look at the file afterwards. I prepare the duration and delivery of the speech at least three times in full before presenting.
Death by a hundred slides.
This is the waterpark I want to go to this summer.
Have you ever been to an office meeting that turned out to be a CEO circlejerk that dragged on for hours?
But a friend of mine went to the grandaddy of them all, something about state politics, some ambitious asshole making a power play and filibustering for an entire day, he had come prepared specifically to wear everyone down, I think he was trying to approve a new set of rules and conditions that benefitted his position, something along those lines.
CEO of our company does one every single Friday at lunch over zoom. Luckily I have never attended. But my boss does has to eat his lunch while listening to CEO talk about all the ways they doing great when we aren’t.
I’ve had a CEO like that. I call it the sunshine and smoke up your ass meeting.
Friday lunch meeting over zoom 💀
Also:
Presenter: Can we hold all questions to the end, please? Thank you!
The end obviously never arrives.
It arrives, but by then there’s no time for questions.
People who do this shouldn’t be in management.
Also, if you can’t fucking type properly (ie touch type) you’re not competent to manage others.
There are non-labor people alive today who can’t touch type?
Unbelievably, yes.
The comic strip sounds like someone made a plugin to export obsidian vaults to .pptx
This comic strip sounds like a 20 year-old Dilbert comic with all the wit removed.
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In university I had a prof that used an overhead projector and a marker to slowly follow the lines drawn on the sheets.
I’d have given anything for a few PowerPoint slides.
How anyone even remotely thinks they should do this boggles my mind.
Wow! What a quick reader!!
Just send the powerpoint and an audiobook at this point and add a comments section
Better yet, just send me a transcript, or just the PowerPoint. I don’t need someone to read to me. I can read faster than they can talk.
You scheduled 15 min for this presentation and I have another meeting after this. So cliff notes only please.
Just email me the script. I’ll have an LLM summarize it.
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