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Yep. A 1:1 transfer from "normal conversation" to "slack conversation" can be really annoying. If I barged into your office for help and before you'd even made

Yep. A 1:1 transfer from "normal conversation" to "slack conversation" can be really annoying. If I barged into your office for help and before you'd even made eye contacted started with "hey jbay808 I'm trying to run this database migration but keep getting validation errors..." and that was the first thing I'd said to you in three days? no good. Doing this in slack? :chef-kiss:

SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
Yup. Lay out the whole problem so that it can be addressed in the next message and the whole thing can be done. I try to approach slack as less instant messaging, more email writing with better history.
alexbanks 6y ago
A previous HR executive used to open every slack conversation with "yt?" Which stood for "You There?". I never understood why you would say that and nothing else, and if the answer was "no", why you wouldn't just say what you were going to say so the person would read it when they WERE there.
- wonder_er 6y ago
  hahaha. yep. A senior executive at my company would sometimes ping me with "got a minute?" And whenever I saw it, I'd always think > I'm about to get a raise or i'm about to get fired When it's HR, or someone where the person sending the message is significantly more powerful than the person receiving it should consider that their "ping" might be interpreted as negatively as possible, unless they specifically indicate that everything is fine. (Turns out the VP was reaching out with some question about how we logged data to a 3rd party tool, not to fire me. :phew:) This was particularly challenging when a meeting would be scheduled. > VP: Hey wonder_er, I just put a meeting on your calendar to chat tomorrow spends 24 hours wondering if I'm going to be fired turns out the call was to say "good work, here's your annual performance bonus".
  - alexbanks 6y ago
    Yes. This HR exec was always guilty of putting unmarked calendar invites on people's calendars because she didn't understand/know how to do private/restricted invites. So you'd show up to work and find a 2pm "HR Sync" on your calendar with no description. Really great times.
  - csours 6y ago
    My team lead pings me with "got a minute?" and I reply with "I'm fired? Sweet Freedom!" We have fun.
  - alexeiz 6y ago
    > A senior executive at my company would sometimes ping me with "got a minute?" OK, this must be it. FROM CUSTOMERS DELETE * Ah, you just wanted to ask a question? Oops.

SketchySeaBeast 6y ago

Yup. Lay out the whole problem so that it can be addressed in the next message and the whole thing can be done. I try to approach slack as less instant messaging, more email writing with better history.

alexbanks 6y ago

A previous HR executive used to open every slack conversation with "yt?" Which stood for "You There?". I never understood why you would say that and nothing else, and if the answer was "no", why you wouldn't just say what you were going to say so the person would read it when they WERE there.

wonder_er 6y ago
hahaha. yep. A senior executive at my company would sometimes ping me with "got a minute?" And whenever I saw it, I'd always think > I'm about to get a raise or i'm about to get fired When it's HR, or someone where the person sending the message is significantly more powerful than the person receiving it should consider that their "ping" might be interpreted as negatively as possible, unless they specifically indicate that everything is fine. (Turns out the VP was reaching out with some question about how we logged data to a 3rd party tool, not to fire me. :phew:) This was particularly challenging when a meeting would be scheduled. > VP: Hey wonder_er, I just put a meeting on your calendar to chat tomorrow spends 24 hours wondering if I'm going to be fired turns out the call was to say "good work, here's your annual performance bonus".
- alexbanks 6y ago
  Yes. This HR exec was always guilty of putting unmarked calendar invites on people's calendars because she didn't understand/know how to do private/restricted invites. So you'd show up to work and find a 2pm "HR Sync" on your calendar with no description. Really great times.
- csours 6y ago
  My team lead pings me with "got a minute?" and I reply with "I'm fired? Sweet Freedom!" We have fun.
- alexeiz 6y ago
  > A senior executive at my company would sometimes ping me with "got a minute?" OK, this must be it. FROM CUSTOMERS DELETE * Ah, you just wanted to ask a question? Oops.