Helpful for midlife crisis decisions: "I need it for work"
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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Can't be forced to dial into teams meeting during commute when you ride an analog bike to work.
Dialing into the morning standup during commute:
Let's be real: this is so your boss (in his MB with his MB money) can micromanage you, even on the go!
This is a CLA, not an E or S Class. The base CLA costs about as much as the average new car sold in the US. This is like the first promotion, I'm going to buy a car car.
The average new car costs about half what I spent on my house just 6 years ago…
I don’t think you are arguing what you think you are arguing.
Now I'm just picturing random Benz's satnavs crashing all over the planet. All because Teams.exe decided it needed 100% of the CPU, at maximum priority, for the next 20 minutes. Because fuck you.
(I'm 999.9999999% sure that program is SkyNet/Genesis at this point. Because Microsoft doesn't need to mine fuckin' Bitcoin or anything stupid. So the fuck is it doing?)
Remember when Microsoft Teams disabled Emergency Calls on Google Pixel devices?
Who cares about MB, anyway?
First having your flagship EV tank because it looks like a shoe, using shitty touch controls on the steering wheel, wanting to release a rounded G-wagon and now this. Which idiot green lights these decisions? I miss Zetche…
It comes with a free tooth brush and paste dispenser next to the mirror controls. What a great idea!
complete with the 365 Copilot generative AI assistant and the aforementioned Microsoft Teams with an Enhanced Meetings function.
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