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> being able to talk directly to people is much better than having to schedule meetings i do not understand what people are talking about when they say things
by dijksterhuis 2y ago
> being able to talk directly to people is much better than having to schedule meetings
i do not understand what people are talking about when they say things like this
personA: hey @personB you got 20 mins to talk about XYZ?
personB: yeah gimme 10 mins
personA: k, i’ll grab a coffee
personA: /zoom start
that’s ^ not scheduling a meeting. that’s having the same direct conversation but with like one extra step (joining zoom).
the rest of what your comment says is fair enough. i just see this mentioned a lot in anti-WFH leaning comments. often about how hard it is to mentor a junior.
(i can’t remember the exact slack command but you hopefully get the idea).
- whstl 2y agoWell, that's already 30 minutes instead of 30 seconds. And that's without taking what sibling poster said: sometimes people take 1h, 2h, 1 day to reply you on Slack. With face to face communication you convey more than "the message". This comes from personal experience: dealing with tech people with Slack-only communication is fine. Dealing with non-tech people is much different. For example, I just RIGHT NOW have to ask a Salesperson about whether a feature is ready to go into prod. I can just walk 10 meters to their desk and get an answer in 5 secs. OR I can write to them in Slack on email and get an answer Monday, because they have 20 unread Slack messages and 500 unread e-mails. You might call this "a bother" to them. To this Salesperson, which happens to be my buddy: this is how they prefers to work.
- what 2y agoYou might be leaving out the one hour delay between the first two messages.