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The comments and discourse here is always so black and white. If you're lucky enough to have creative work where you can deliver the most value by doing focuse
by tj-teej 3y ago
The comments and discourse here is always so black and white.
If you're lucky enough to have creative work where you can deliver the most value by doing focused work all day, then by all means ignore your slack and email. BTW I'm very jealous of your job!
Why can't we just be adult professionals who can decide for themselves when to spend time without distractions and when not to? Surely we need both right?
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoThe problem isn't when you have a software dev, say, doing focused work, and their manager, say, being interrupt-driven. That's fine (though the majority of us here on HN are "focused work" types, so their viewpoint tends to predominate). The problem comes when the manager (or IT or someone else) decides that everyone else has to be available for instant response to the alerts. That violates your "adult professionals" rule, too.
- calvinmorrison 3y agoExcept I used to be able to walk over to your desk if I needed to talk asap or ring your work internal radio. Now I send an email a slack a call and get a response two days later