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The cynic in me says this ends up as yet another list of channels that I need to scan for anything interesting, and interact with to keep up an appearance of en
by 9dev 1y ago
The cynic in me says this ends up as yet another list of channels that I need to scan for anything interesting, and interact with to keep up an appearance of engagement.
I appreciate any effort to increase social cohesion in remote teams, but intermingling it with one of the main stressors of my work environment—keeping up with team communication—isn’t the right way IMHO.
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- hk__2 1y ago> The cynic in me says this ends up as yet another list of channels that I need to scan for anything interesting, and interact with to keep up an appearance of engagement. The post says it’s channels you mute and you are not expected to interact with.
- firesteelrain 1y agoIn teams and mattermost, they show up as bold and almost unavoidable to the eye. Any other software that truly mutes?
- OJFord 1y agoSlack will turn them a muted colour, and they'll only get an unread indication if you're explicitly pinged by default, but I think you can turn even that off too.
- firesteelrain 1y agoHmm ok we don’t use Slack and it would have to be on prem due to company policy
- aar9 1y agoMuted channels in Slack do not indicate in any way when there's a new message.
- stavros 1y agoSlack mutes fine.
- delecti 1y agoMattermost can truly mute. Doing so disables the behavior that makes the channel name bold when there are unread messages. Just hover on a channel name, click the three dots, then "Mute".
- hk__2 1y agoMattermost truly mutes.
- 9dev 1y agoBut you still know they are there, and that your colleagues should perceive you as at least casually interested in what the others are up to. Even if muted, these channels inevitably become another liability.
- starttoaster 1y agoI think everyone knows and silently understands that the people responding/emoji-ing in those channels all day every day are doing so at the cost of work output, and that there are a lot of people working that aren't typing away about the last audiobook they listened to. I think you've created a stressful situation out of something that isn't inherently stressing.
- kaffekaka 1y agoWhat is "inherently stressing"? Is it not enough that some people feel stressed by something for it to actually be stressing? I know that also for me these rambling channels would add to my stress.
- 9dev 1y agoGenerating business value is not your only responsibility, though. Most companies expect you to be a team player, to stay in touch, to communicate across departments, and so on. So depending on your work environment, communicating and responding quickly may be implicitly expected and not conforming may lead to stagnation in your career.
- ghaff 1y agoYeah. It's either channels that you actively engage with or you effectively block. For active communication purposes the "you might see it" in-between option isn't really very effective. It happens anyway to some degree. But isn't ideal.
- Aurornis 1y agoThat will last until the first person shares a link to their rambling channel or the first time a pair of team members discuss something at standup that only appeared in someone’s ramblings channel. Every time a company has said “you should mute and ignore this channel” but also encourages relevant project discussion in that channel, it becomes something people realize they need to unmute and monitor. The only people who have the luxury of completely ignoring channels are managers and leads, because they can dictate how people need to bring information to them.
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- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoDo you really pursue "inbox zero" on slack? That sounds like a full-time job in itself.
- kj4211cash 1y agoI do. At Walmart. It drives me slightly insane. Wish I could turn that part of myself off more often.
- gertlex 1y agoI'm also like this. Have never been like this with email though (but email is much higher volume/more individual things to click on... and less interesting :D)
- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoDude. You gotta train people to mention you when you're relevant, do the same for them, and trust each other enough to let that be enough.
- j45 1y agoSlack isn't really an organized way to do organizational knowledge or communication. At best it can be temporary or short term messaging and there's probably something missing between slack and email that needs to exist in the world. I'm not a notification or interruption driven individual, and it shows in my productivity. Having a place to put things or share things, can be helpful.
- paradox460 1y agoI love using the unreads thing in slack while I'm brushing my teeth or waiting for my tea maker to finish. Tinder for work spam. Everything is processed as quickly as possible, into either "to-do" or "done/ignore"
- 9dev 1y agoIf you’re working while brushing your teeth, you may want to question your working habits…