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the slides will be in our corporate colors: yellow text on a pink background …

Add to that going back 2-3 slides every 5mins and you get my professor at uni. Watching his classes was actual torture

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!

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.

I'll never forget the one professor who put up a side of code... And had no idea what the class was about. We spent most of the class reading together with him to try to figure out what the lesson was supposed to be about

Apparently the guy was one of those crazy low-level guys who can do things I don't understand but build on top of. Guy just constantly looked bewildered by reality, he belonged in the code world

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.

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.

Even if I'm only presenting a handful of slides I'll slap some blank ones on the end just to make everyone sweat over "Slide 1 of 83". Everyone is pretty darn quiet and glad to help speed things along most of the time.

People who aren't good at presentation making think that they are supposed to convey absolutely everything they are saying and be crammed full of information. I was doing a group presentation sometime ago where my group members insisted I put paragraphs of info in my slides and were worried we would fail for not enough information. Even after explaining that they were meant to guide the audience in what I was going to say, they insisted that it was wrong

Also:

Presenter: Can we hold all questions to the end, please? Thank you!

The end obviously never arrives.

My best presentation at university was during a small seminar. It was a 45min talk about 3 papers and how they relate to each other. I procrastinate a lot, so I didn't really do anything besides reading those papers until the day before my presentation. That day, a friend called for a spontaneous barbecue, so I had just an odd hour to actually prepare slides. I managed 8 slides in total, the rest I just impromptu recalled from memory. People liked it and it was the least effort I put in any talk I held at university.

It really baffles me when people make presentations like this. It's such an easy thing to correct as well but it just keeps happening.

I hate this. It's basically just a lecture with slides as the cue cards, which the audience can read for themselves.

It's like having subtitles in real life.

Ugh. Give me some data, graphs, or pictures of cats to look at for the slideshow or something. Something other than what you're saying. If you add nothing to what we're seeing, then.... I have eyes. I don't need you to read it for me.

PowerPoint, at least, has a notes section and a presenter view, so you can hook your computer up with the projector or TV or whatever as a second monitor and PowerPoint can be set up to use the TV/projector/whatever, as the slide show, and give you a presenter view on your screen which shows the current slide, and all your notes.

So if you can't get relevant pictures, at least put up something interesting to look at, and leave the cue cards notes in the notes section, so the audience doesn't have to stare at the exact words you're saying, as you're saying them, because I guarantee you that if you do, I'll be judging you on your spelling and grammar.

People who do this shouldn't be in management.

The comic strip sounds like someone made a plugin to export obsidian vaults to .pptx

Good old PowerPoint karaoke

How anyone even remotely thinks they should do this boggles my mind.

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.

Just send the powerpoint and an audiobook at this point and add a comments section

Wow! What a quick reader!!

Why even have words in the power point if you're just going to read them aloud word for word?

You scheduled 15 min for this presentation and I have another meeting after this. So cliff notes only please.