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From my experience, in most office jobs, email is primarily used for serious and well-argued discussions concerning projects, business goals, technical details,
by meowface 8y ago
From my experience, in most office jobs, email is primarily used for serious and well-argued discussions concerning projects, business goals, technical details, etc. Software developers really don't use email any differently from IT support, accountants, HR managers, or salespeople. Non-developers generally reserve chit-chat for chat software, just like developers do.
Not sure what it is about HN assuming software devs are somehow intellectually and professionally superior to others.
- caf 8y agoI agree that the "software dev" distinction here is not relevant. However, it's definitely true that email is typically used both for "serious and well-argued discussions" and for chatty threads along the lines of Thanks. BTW How are we looking for this month's revenue target? >No idea, maybe the data load didn't run last night, >I'll look into it. > >>This report looks broken, the opportunity I closed >>yesterday isn't in there, what's up?
- meowface 8y agoSure, but it's not like a software dev wouldn't send a similar email, just discussing something development-related instead of revenue-related.
- spookthesunset 8y ago> Not sure what it is about HN assuming software devs are somehow intellectually and professionally superior to others. Dunno but this thread is full of a bunch folks rather arrogantly assuming their way is the One True Way. Slack (and hipchat) didn't get big for no reason. It's because it fulfills a pretty big need. Tons of people in my company use & love Slack... Last company was a big hipchat company...