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If it is the primary method of communicating within your team/company, then you will find it difficult to not use it, or rather you will be left out of major de

If it is the primary method of communicating within your team/company, then you will find it difficult to not use it, or rather you will be left out of major decisions/changes.

marktangotango 7y ago
You’ve described the pathology and first reason to NOT use chat for anything important. What am I supposed to do? Sit on the chat all day so I don’t miss anything? I’m on a team that does this now. I ignore the 100 to 1000 plus messages and memes a day and I have missed “important decisions”. It’s a net negative imo.
- Sholmesy 7y ago
  That may be so, but that's a seperate issue. If it is the primary method, you'll miss stuff. Whether it should, is another matter, and running a one-man rebellion from within is probably not the most effective way to change that.
  - jasonzemos 7y ago
    This comment literally illustrates the pathology described by its parent. Not all organizations are cults run by cliche fascists who crush subordinates who make that kind of criticism.
- eternalny1 7y ago
  I work on a remote small team, but we work on a highly complex, large code base. We rarely pick up a phone, and we do not use email. Everything is 100% Slack. This works well for us. You can bring in only the people you need, you can "star" messages and channels that are important, and none of us have any time to spam/meme the channels, so it's 100% business. We integrate the JIRA slackbot to keep abreast of what is going on in JIRA. It all "just works" for us.
- alistairSH 7y ago
  If your team is sending memes all day, that's a cultural problem. Slack is exposing the problem, not creating it. My employer uses Slack. Our team channels are almost completely devoid of cruft. There are office/location based channels that contain more bloat, but those are easy to ignore and typically don't contain critical information. All of the "all employee" type channels are locked down.

If it is the primary method of communicating within your team/company, then you will find it difficult to not use it, or rather you will be left out of major decisions/changes.

marktangotango 7y ago

You’ve described the pathology and first reason to NOT use chat for anything important. What am I supposed to do? Sit on the chat all day so I don’t miss anything? I’m on a team that does this now. I ignore the 100 to 1000 plus messages and memes a day and I have missed “important decisions”. It’s a net negative imo.

Sholmesy 7y ago
That may be so, but that's a seperate issue. If it is the primary method, you'll miss stuff. Whether it should, is another matter, and running a one-man rebellion from within is probably not the most effective way to change that.
- jasonzemos 7y ago
  This comment literally illustrates the pathology described by its parent. Not all organizations are cults run by cliche fascists who crush subordinates who make that kind of criticism.
eternalny1 7y ago
I work on a remote small team, but we work on a highly complex, large code base. We rarely pick up a phone, and we do not use email. Everything is 100% Slack. This works well for us. You can bring in only the people you need, you can "star" messages and channels that are important, and none of us have any time to spam/meme the channels, so it's 100% business. We integrate the JIRA slackbot to keep abreast of what is going on in JIRA. It all "just works" for us.
alistairSH 7y ago
If your team is sending memes all day, that's a cultural problem. Slack is exposing the problem, not creating it. My employer uses Slack. Our team channels are almost completely devoid of cruft. There are office/location based channels that contain more bloat, but those are easy to ignore and typically don't contain critical information. All of the "all employee" type channels are locked down.