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> that the contracting company's on-site manager was bombarding the contractors with instant messages they were required to monitor Pardon the naivete, but cou

• neilv 8y ago
  It turned out people hated that, but it was an unusually amiable group of experts who maybe were reluctant to speak candidly with this person (and the reporting lines weren't clear, in a firm of technical experts). Anyway, I only mentioned this anecdote because I was reminded of it, as a concrete example of disruptive notifications you had to be plugged into, for whatever reason.