Please Don't Make Me Use Slack
Please don't make me use Slack. Or Discord. Or any other real time chat service at work. I just don’t get how I am expected to be productive at work when work is an endless array of inboxes with non-important notifications. I already have issues focusing and this doesn’t exactly help.
The idea is that these tools would enable us to collaborate better and quicker. But instead it’s a shitshow of people triggering one million notifications while chatting to you like this
hi
?
do you have a minute?
:)
An endless hell of people who will tag @channel while posting a gif that only Generation X will find funny. And when I try to close the application to do actual work, I am then being marked as offline. It’s shaming me: LOOK WHO IS NOT WORKING!
Even when I’ve tried to remove the non-important channels I’m in, they announce stupid things: We now support threads on Slack—your inboxes now has their own inboxes!
No matter how many times I press shift+esc it doesn’t take away the pain of me having to navigate this awful world eight hours a day. At this point I daydream about using fax machines at work.
This is post 2 out of 1000. I have a stupid goal of writing 1000 unedited 200-word-posts.