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> If I see a Slack notification, I'll check it Why? Are you on-call?

• ToucanLoucan 3y ago
  Because I check all my notifications, work and otherwise. It would be more effort to remember to not check Slack in particular.
  • marssaxman 3y ago
    How does that actually happen, though? Have you signed into your work accounts on your personal machine? If so, why did that seem necessary? It takes me no effort to ignore work Slack notifications, because I don't open my work laptop until it's time to work. This seems obvious to me, yet many people complain about being distracted by their notifications, so I wonder what they are doing differently, and why.
    • ToucanLoucan 3y ago
      Personal phone. I have separate computers for work and personal stuff but it's too much of a fuckabout to have more than one phone and watch, so I don't. I regularly use my phone both to test our products and to communicate with coworkers. My phone is mine, my work computer belongs to my employer. I know some people do the work phone thing and more power to them, but for me, I found it grating and irritating to have to have two handsets on me. That being said, while my email and Slack access are shared to my personal phone, again, unless something is actively on fire, I don't answer, and, in those rare instances, it's always appreciated by my leadership is a favor I'm doing them, not an expected/demanded part of my job. I don't think that's an unreasonable way to do things.