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I strongly recommend ‘random’ rooms in your shared chat messenger, or a way to make random rooms in whatever communication infrastructure you have. They’re vita
by t-writescode 6y ago
I strongly recommend ‘random’ rooms in your shared chat messenger, or a way to make random rooms in whatever communication infrastructure you have. They’re vital for maintaining social interactions
- Balgair 6y agoVirtual Happy Hours also help. They don't have to be booze focused.
- codazoda 6y agoCan you explain random rooms for those of us that are not familiar? Just rooms for random chatter, like watercooler?
- phamilton 6y agoMy favorites (company of about 100 people): #random #hot-takes #woodworking #home-improvement #pictures-and-videos #eli5-tech And many more.
- draebek 6y agoI like these channels a lot. I have to ask, though, doesn't #hot-takes end up getting people in trouble? Like HR trouble? Or at least stuff like starting political flame wars between colleagues?
- ace32229 6y agoHot takes don't have to be political. Sport (X team deserve to win more than the current leaders), food (flats are better than drumsticks), etc.
- draebek 6y agoI fully agree, but in an office of 100 people, I'm surprised everyone else agrees.
- t-writescode 6y agoThey don't need to agree! That's part of the fun of it! A regular on my service is hotdogs are sandwiches or emacs is the superior text editor
- phamilton 6y agoI recommend "every food is either a soup or a salad".
- t-writescode 6y agoor a meat
- phamilton 6y agoNo, meat is a salad
- t-writescode 6y agoI think the original argument was a meat because a meat is a single, semi-solid, blob of a single item. Salads are non-mixed collections of goods and soups are homogenized(?) liquids. Or did they collapse the state of matter for soups and meats? That wouldn't match salad, though.
- draebek 6y agoWell, everyone probably does need to agree on what is off-limits for work conversation. Putting something like "Joe Biden is a communist" or "Black lives matter is just a front for foreign agitators" into #hot-takes is probably not something you want people getting into at work in most cases, right? (Note that I am not making either of those statements, they were purposely chosen to be extremely provocative.)
- phamilton 6y ago#hot-takes is pretty fun. Some recent examples: "The imperial system is awful compared to metric, but Farenheight is a better temperature scale for humans than Celsius." "soft-close hinges/slides are a worthless and annoying novelty in modern cabinetry. they feel worse to open and closing a drawer without slamming it isn’t that hard" "Cartoon Network was way better than Nickelodeon in the 90s-00s. Both of them win over Disney Channel any day" "email should be banished, just like faxes and cheques. it’s an extremely inferior and unsuitable medium for how we communicate online these days" "cucumber is an overrated and is only good in gin and tonics" Basically, nothing is actually of consequence there, but people get fired up and have strong opinions. It's a fun interaction.
- draebek 6y agoOK, good deal, I am very pleased to know that it's all acceptable behavior. Thanks for the detailed reply. :)
- Corrado 6y agoOr look at another solution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23928666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23928666 My team was becoming more and more remote even before the Covid-19 lockdown and a constant, real-time connection is something that we were exploring.
- schwartzworld 6y agoI struggle to think of something I'd like to have in my home less than an always-on camera.