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At work we are encouraged to use slack for everything, including contacting HR. It's true it gets you a faster response. But it's unreliable when it comes to fu
by firefoxd 4y ago
At work we are encouraged to use slack for everything, including contacting HR. It's true it gets you a faster response. But it's unreliable when it comes to future retrieval.
I still make it a point to write an email for any important communication that I want to document, even if I have to ping HR or the other party on slack right after.
- john_minsk 4y agoI just have an “awaiting response” bucket for my tasks. So if someone fucks with my progress they get notified asap.
- tyingq 4y ago>we are encouraged to use slack for everything, including contacting HR That might be deliberate. They can use slack features to turn off saving revisions of edited messages, to make retention times short, etc. That is, discoverable evidence of any wrongdoing goes *poof* easily. Compare to email, where you can forward some answer from HR to your personal email, with headers that later give some viable evidence you really got some specific answer, when you got it, etc. More useful than screenshots of slack, for example.
- dimitar 4y agoInteresting you mention this as Slack was originally an acronym: Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge Point is that it was intended as a communication stream that is recorded and indexed, so you don't need a wiki/sharepoint/notion/etc. for example. It doesn't seem to work like in practice, though
- scubbo 4y agoThis is a commonly-held misconception. "Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge" was a backronym[0] - an acronym formed from an already existing word. [0] https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/875563691172691969 https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/875563691172691969