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I don't see any advantage on chat, who is using this in a company? it's not serious people don't know how to use it and they don't focus on work but chatting in

I don't see any advantage on chat, who is using this in a company? it's not serious people don't know how to use it and they don't focus on work but chatting instead. Lost of time, lost of productivity. Don't want do a service request? yeah write me an Skype message instead... it will increase my work rate and put value in the business.

thriftwy 9y ago
Chat allows to broadcast questions which is invaluable in information economy. And just, you know, talk to coworkers.
- kobeya 9y ago
  Broadcasting interruptions to everyone.
  - Johnny555 9y ago
    Slack notifications are tunable. The only interruptions I get from Slack are when someone mentions my name. I subscribe to a number of Slack channels, but only see activity there when I'm looking for it. (Except for a production problem channel, where I get a notification for all activity in the channel.) When I have time to check Slack, I can catch up on unread messages, I don't have to read them all in real-time.
    - kobeya 9y ago
      Then you fail to receive broadcasted questions such as the GP listed as its feature.
      - Johnny555 9y ago
        No, I still receive them, just not in real time, I see them when I take the time to scan unread slack channels. If it's important, they can message me directly, or use the #prod-problems channel where an "@all" mention will alert me.
- madshiva 9y ago
  The system need to be easy and people that have question can search Inside the FAQ. Why asking when you can search for that damn process, guideline. I check slak and the first that I see is a personn asking if he can bring the dog or cat at work. Who is stupid enough to ask these question and ask for something that he should know where it is. But no ask people for that they give shortcut, link. So much value added! It's almost the same with email, people have never been trained and still send file over and over, don't communicate with the whole team, you need to push and ask the information because it's a nice tool but not correctly used.
  - thriftwy 9y ago
    I don't know, maybe the job you do is so trivial that you can put every question ever into a medium-side FAQ with added benefit of being able to employ dullards. It's not like that at most Software Engineering places and knowedge transmission via common chat is invaluable.
    - madshiva 9y ago
      I don't say chat is not valuable. This can help is a quick / fast organization very small compagny but the way the product is show in a big organization all the documentation, procedure etc is a critical key for that employee can work in a good manner. If the information is not well organize it's a mess, people complain, people loss all the day to find a small answer. Yes, they can chat and ask the question but I don't see value for answering question.

thriftwy 9y ago

Chat allows to broadcast questions which is invaluable in information economy. And just, you know, talk to coworkers.

kobeya 9y ago
Broadcasting interruptions to everyone.
- Johnny555 9y ago
  Slack notifications are tunable. The only interruptions I get from Slack are when someone mentions my name. I subscribe to a number of Slack channels, but only see activity there when I'm looking for it. (Except for a production problem channel, where I get a notification for all activity in the channel.) When I have time to check Slack, I can catch up on unread messages, I don't have to read them all in real-time.
  - kobeya 9y ago
    Then you fail to receive broadcasted questions such as the GP listed as its feature.
    - Johnny555 9y ago
      No, I still receive them, just not in real time, I see them when I take the time to scan unread slack channels. If it's important, they can message me directly, or use the #prod-problems channel where an "@all" mention will alert me.
madshiva 9y ago
The system need to be easy and people that have question can search Inside the FAQ. Why asking when you can search for that damn process, guideline. I check slak and the first that I see is a personn asking if he can bring the dog or cat at work. Who is stupid enough to ask these question and ask for something that he should know where it is. But no ask people for that they give shortcut, link. So much value added! It's almost the same with email, people have never been trained and still send file over and over, don't communicate with the whole team, you need to push and ask the information because it's a nice tool but not correctly used.
- thriftwy 9y ago
  I don't know, maybe the job you do is so trivial that you can put every question ever into a medium-side FAQ with added benefit of being able to employ dullards. It's not like that at most Software Engineering places and knowedge transmission via common chat is invaluable.
  - madshiva 9y ago
    I don't say chat is not valuable. This can help is a quick / fast organization very small compagny but the way the product is show in a big organization all the documentation, procedure etc is a critical key for that employee can work in a good manner. If the information is not well organize it's a mess, people complain, people loss all the day to find a small answer. Yes, they can chat and ask the question but I don't see value for answering question.