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One behavior that I desperately wish had been called out: individuals who, seeing a back-and-forth over Slack, fail to realize that the communication is effecti
by don-code 5y ago
One behavior that I desperately wish had been called out: individuals who, seeing a back-and-forth over Slack, fail to realize that the communication is effective, and post a single message containing a Zoom link. In spite of this sounding like a pointy-haired boss type behavior, I've seen all sorts of engineers do it.
The intent is obvious: stop everything else that you are doing and join, so that it's the only thing that you are doing.
- raldi 5y agoOr, relatedly, you ask someone a question while juggling several conversations or projects, and they reply by initiating an unprompted call, throwing away all the value of the asynchronous-communications platform you’re trying to leverage. (Even worse is the ones who reply to a chat by sneaking up behind your desk and tapping your shoulder while you’re wearing headphones.)