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dont use it ... if a production is actually not making your life better why tie yourself down to it. just use what works, force slack to innovate

s3r3nity 8y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvotes - it's a reasonable question to ask: "why use something that makes you crazy / stressed out? Not to set up a straw-man, but I'd imagine a similar reaction if someone wrote a post titled "How to use Facebook and not get depressed," the gut-reaction is "why use it if it's making you feel bad?"
- ben_w 8y ago
  A good question. The most powerful answer (for both examples) is because other-people-using-it makes its use by you necessary to get things done.
  - consumethreads 8y ago
    and thats where my quesiton is not for the employees but for the employers. Why are you choosing to use a product in your company that has no use. If it had use then it wouldnt make people "crazy". It would make them happy. This inherently leads me to believe it has no use. Personal experience, there is no golden rule to these things. Email , slack , google calendar. You eventually need to build your own relationship with these things and be adult enough to maintain that relationship (inbox at 0), seperate it from your emotions and be prepared to toss it to the side for in person conversation. Its not slack that is making people crazy its the policies of using it at the company (or usually the lack there of) that make its benefit inconsistent. But it seems slack has not improved the situation but only exacerbated it.
    - ben_w 8y ago
      Ah, I see. I agree with you in that case, but in my experience the true-but-rubbish answer is generally that the decision makers had need to use a tool and “common sense” made them force it on everyone else without any consideration (a common problem whenever the justification is “common sense”).
- TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
  > Not sure why you're getting downvotes I am. Not contributing to the discussion by dismissing the topic.

s3r3nity 8y ago

Not sure why you're getting downvotes - it's a reasonable question to ask: "why use something that makes you crazy / stressed out? Not to set up a straw-man, but I'd imagine a similar reaction if someone wrote a post titled "How to use Facebook and not get depressed," the gut-reaction is "why use it if it's making you feel bad?"

ben_w 8y ago
A good question. The most powerful answer (for both examples) is because other-people-using-it makes its use by you necessary to get things done.
- consumethreads 8y ago
  and thats where my quesiton is not for the employees but for the employers. Why are you choosing to use a product in your company that has no use. If it had use then it wouldnt make people "crazy". It would make them happy. This inherently leads me to believe it has no use. Personal experience, there is no golden rule to these things. Email , slack , google calendar. You eventually need to build your own relationship with these things and be adult enough to maintain that relationship (inbox at 0), seperate it from your emotions and be prepared to toss it to the side for in person conversation. Its not slack that is making people crazy its the policies of using it at the company (or usually the lack there of) that make its benefit inconsistent. But it seems slack has not improved the situation but only exacerbated it.
  - ben_w 8y ago
    Ah, I see. I agree with you in that case, but in my experience the true-but-rubbish answer is generally that the decision makers had need to use a tool and “common sense” made them force it on everyone else without any consideration (a common problem whenever the justification is “common sense”).
TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Not sure why you're getting downvotes I am. Not contributing to the discussion by dismissing the topic.