Every job I've had in the Slack era has had its own Slack culture and its own dysfunctions. Some places it's a non-stop interruption fest from management offlo

Every job I've had in the Slack era has had its own Slack culture and its own dysfunctions. Some places it's a non-stop interruption fest from management offloading everything onto lower ranking employees as if it's a priority 1 emergency. Some places have endless DM groups causing information to be lost and endlessly repeated, confusing the new hires, and creating cliques. Some places are joke and meme fests, wasting time and focus with reactions and gifs. Others are ghost towns where asking questions directly, in order to unblock you, will get shrugs and no participation. The best ones are mostly down to business and keep all the important information in a Notion or Google Drive. The latter is also easy to mess up though because people don't categorize, and even when they do, the needs of managers are often different from the needs of workers. Nothing beats having a .txt file with all your current personal notes, linking to important reference docs. Mainly, communicating over text requires people who are good at it, who have some proficiency in writing, and who don't treat it like a flowing conversation with a rapid back and forth. That way lies madness. Sadly, I haven't found a good way to change Slack practices. It seems to be quite innate and incorrigible. Finding a different job is the only thing that works.