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Worst work culture you've experienced?
Week 151 Group Rant
stisch
5y

Slack culture.

Yes, the chat application.

Fuck it, fuck mattermost, HipChat, Skype, and whatever other digital text medium for team communication.

These are great applications, but used for great evil. They feed cliques and passive aggressive "side" conversations. Every team I've been on has something like this, and it allows people to cultivate hate for one another even though they're sitting in the same room.

Texting allows you to complain about a coworker to your clique. Each clique can have it's own thread. This empowers people to silently rip into other team members. It prevents rational adult conversations and builds stupid little secret societies.

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  • 6
    5y
    If you are in the same room it can be annoying indeed, if you work in different offices or countries even it is a necessity
  • 7
    5y
    I would never write anything "bad" in those chats, because of HR. I don't know who will see it, in which way interpret it, or make a screenshot, safe history, or whatsoever.
    But I see your point.
  • 1
    5y
    @FrodoSwaggins Skype is Ferrari compared with Skype for Business ( lync ) - same name, same company different products m$
  • 4
    5y
    What @FrodoSwaggins said.

    Plus chat applications have existed exist since the dawn of the Internet and before that people gossiped in the break room or wherever.

    Bitches have been and will be bitches... Nothing to do with slack.
  • 6
    5y
    Written text gives you a logged, verifiable form of communication that you can go back and check later if necessary. *shrug*
  • 1
    5y
    @FrodoSwaggins oh good point... Let's omit that one from the record 😅
  • 1
    5y
    I'm not saying these aren't useful. Team chat is a powerful tool I would never want to live without. If people used it exclusively for that purpose (and also sharing cat memes) I would love it.

    It's the whispering about each other that bothers me.
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