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Nope. Not my duty to modulate my communication to YOUR notification preferences. I say this as someone who has been working remote with various teams for nearl
by kfrzcode 6y ago
Nope. Not my duty to modulate my communication to YOUR notification preferences.
I say this as someone who has been working remote with various teams for nearly seven years.
Crucial to the success of any remote team is feeling comfortable sharing and communicating via async and text based means.
You can always just turn $SLACKISH off and actually focus. If you're on call or in a situation wherein you need to watch messages and respond immediately - you're not going to reach flow state anyways.
Do not disturb and other notification settings exist so you can decide when you get dings.
I'll leave my bite sized messages for detailed threading, thanks!
- dvtrn 6y agoI’m not asking you or anyone to moderate or change anything about how you communicate, friend (entirely because I know how futile it is). Just idly pondering if others have similar reactions to it.
- kfrzcode 6y agoFair play! I have a tendency to take a hard-line on this relatively minor issue.
- goliatone 6y agoI can tolerate it if it’s through slack because I have set DND[1] but it really bothers me when people do that over SMS and I’m trying to concentrate. [1] I have a set of scripts that trigger do not disturb on macos center notification and sets my status on slack to do not disturb and other relevant services etc but I have not been able to automate my phone settings the same way.
- abeppu 6y ago> Do not disturb and other notification settings exist so you can decide when you get dings. Yeah, but an option which I think would smooth this situation which I never see available is "give me a notification when they've stopped adding messages for at least k seconds". If some of my teammates write chunky messages which are immediately actionable, I'm fine seeing the notification immediately. But if I put that in my settings, the a minority of people who send a stream of short drip messages which are only actionable when considered in aggregate seems super annoying.
- dredmorbius 6y agoCommunication should be done with an awareness of the audience / recipient. Respecting explicitly expressed preferences, if reasonably accommodated, is simple courtesy.
- _rs 6y agoI am just as annoyed at this as OP is, and yes when someone does this to me I mute their thread/messages. This is fine for me, but keep in mind you will get much slower replies from me since I will no longer see notifications for your messages, compared to people who don't do this.