Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!



otc said:

Was it in some TV show or movie (or did I just read it in some post online) where somebody always makes a glaring issue in any work for their boss to fix.
Finish up a big word document...but put the paragraph headers in orange comic sans. Your boss will say "make this black and change the font to match" and he will then feel like he has done his job by making some corrections.

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It is insane how much time is wasted changing formats, colors and nitpicking charts at my company. Also, mind you, all of this stuff is for internal presentations, not client based.

One thing that I am going to do when I am higher up is tell my team if they want to "sell" an idea, or show me something do NOT under any circumstances have a fancy powerpoint presentation. Resources (time) should be used for results not colorful presentations.

Normalcy... just returned from 10 days of sun, beaches, scuba diving, lunch-time pina coladas and lovely girls by the pool.
ughhh.... Now back to reality.



patrickBOOTH said:

It is insane how much time is wasted changing formats, colors and nitpicking charts at my company. Also, mind you, all of this stuff is for internal presentations, not client based.
One thing that I am going to do when I am higher up is tell my team if they want to "sell" an idea, or show me something do NOT under any circumstances have a fancy powerpoint presentation. Resources (time) should be used for results not colorful presentations.

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I ******* hate powerpoints. I immediately tune out whenever someone tries to get me to watch one.



harvey_birdman said:

I ******* hate powerpoints. I immediately tune out whenever someone tries to get me to watch one.

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Same here. I prefer people to just give me the handouts rather than listen to them read what's on each slide. Most people don't know how to use them effectively, and use way too many of them.



JayJay said:

Same here. I prefer people to just give me the handouts rather than listen to them read what's on each slide. Most people don't know how to use them effectively, and use way too many of them.

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I'd rather be handed a yellow sticky with a few bullets written on it.



JayJay said:

Same here. I prefer people to just give me the handouts rather than listen to them read what's on each slide. Most people don't know how to use them effectively, and use way too many of them.

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+1

The best Powerpoint presentations I have seen take full advantage of various transitional wipes (star wipes being my favourite). Quick cuts are often quite jarring and the traditional left-to-right wipes too boring. Definitely not a tool to be used by people 35 years and older.

Who am I kidding, I wouldn't read a handout either. I don't like the idea of having to listen to someone else tell me anything. It's why I do what I do, I like to hear myself talk.



Neo_Version 7 said:

The worst Powerpoint presentations I have seen take full advantage of various transitional wipes (star wipes being my favourite, because I don't know WTF I'm doing).

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FTFY.

I like to hear myself fart. Is there a job for me?



Neo_Version 7 said:

+1
The best Powerpoint presentations I have seen take full advantage of various transitional wipes (star wipes being my favourite). Quick cuts are often quite jarring and the traditional left-to-right wipes too boring. Definitely not a tool to be used by people 35 years and older.

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I was misusing PowerPoint while you were still crapping your pants. Transitional wipes bullshit; any decent presentation shouldn't have so many slides that transition makes any difference.



imatlas said:

FTFY.

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+11ty

Unless you are presenting to a huge group of people I would rather just have a conversation.

Powerpoints should have a boring title page for you to leave on the projector while people show up late.

Then maybe they should have a slide with 3 bullet points about wtf you are going to talk about.

Then the rest of the slides should be some **** you need to show people. A big graph of something, a map of something else, a table with only a few rows/columns.

Just because you are going to talk about something, doesn't mean it *has* to go on a slide...just put up the things that need to be pointed at so you can say "look over here in this corner" and you don't end up with some idiot looking at his printed copy thinking you meant the the left side of the previous slide and getting confused since you are talking about a map of Cleveland while he is looking a bar chart of morons per capita in conference rooms.

^ To add to that, it also helps when your bullet points enter the slide in an interesting way while giving off sound effects. I cannot tell you the number of times colleagues have whispered to one another in amazement while I click for the next slide.



patrickBOOTH said:

It is insane how much time is wasted changing formats, colors and nitpicking charts at my company. Also, mind you, all of this stuff is for internal presentations, not client based.
One thing that I am going to do when I am higher up is tell my team if they want to "sell" an idea, or show me something do NOT under any circumstances have a fancy powerpoint presentation. Resources (time) should be used for results not colorful presentations.

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Sometimes I wonder how much work would actually get done in my office if it weren't for pointless, nitpicking corrections. It's possible to get like 3 or 4 rounds of corrections. The best is when you change something per the boss' specifications, and then they ask for it to be changed again.