I just hate Google. I have to use the G-Suite and work and it irritates me. I have trouble finding emails, the user interface acts weird, I just don’t like it.
I do like the meeting and videoconferencing functionality though.
I did have a kind of funny slap your forehead moment this week though. I was scheduling a meeting, so I brought up a co-worker’s calendar, and the time slots said “busy”, and I saw a free slot and put it in.
I went back a minute later to doublecheck, and the co-worker had just put a meeting right where I scheduled mine, so I changed to a free slot. When I looked again, he had moved his meeting to accommodate mine that I was rescheduling.
This happened three times with me rescheduling and sending out the reschedule notices, until I realized that the co-worker wasn’t moving his meeting, it was my meeting that kept coming up on his calendar. I thought it would say “pending” or something like that, but it said “busy”. He hadn’t even touched it.
I had to hang my head on that one...my own stupidity. Can’t really blame THAT on Google.
My experience is different. I find Gmail incredibly easy to use and even though I have over 80,000 emails in my account, I can pull up just about anything I need instantly. It's so efficient that I attach important files to emails and send them to myself so that I can easily pull them up later from any computer I log into.
However, many others at work have the same complaints as you.
I guess I'm wired differently.