Everyone in the gaming internet talking about how Microsoft's Activision Blizzard purchase will usher in a new age of improvements have never had to use teams.

You can go back to Skype if you want, teams is an improvement on that dog shit.

@C0D4 🐕💩+🐎💩=

You can't really force your Employer to switch to Slack but you can always find a new employer

Whether it is worth it or not is something only you can tell

How would 3 (well, 2?) horrible companies improve anything? I expect it to get even worse. Fortunately they haven't produced a game I'm interested in for more than a decade.

@asgs slack doesn't always mean better.

I'm forced to "watch" about 20 other channels 24/7 for shit anyone on the team says.

I'm supposed to know what it's going on with a team I'm not even a part of.

Slack is great, but it's not the answer.

@sariel the problem you just described is the organization's, not slack's or any other tool's

The OP is very frustrated with the usage of Teams as an app and slack is a much better alternative. Nothing is perfect but some things try to keep our lives a little more manageable

@asgs I agree, but don't agree. It's also a problem with the app for allowing something so disorganized to happen.

Slack changed from being a communications hub to a notifications hub when they introduced bots and API integrations.

IMO they should have limited communication from bots and API calls to only send to channels, not individuals. They made the decision to allow it to happen because their consumer base wanted it.

Just because your customer asks for it doesn't mean they should have it.

I have suffered through notification fatigue over the last year so much that I have started to check slack once an hour instead of having it up all day just so I can actually get ANY work done.

From actual questions about API documentation to stupid fucking "hi" messages. I get on average 1000 Slack notifications a day.

Slack is my problem because it empowers my employer to do this.

@sariel I agree on the notifications clutter but it is a problem with its usage. One can take any (great) feature and turn into a total annoyance. @channel and @here are the best examples for that

I simply muted many channels and the other channels which are critical to my day-to-day functioning are configured to only notify me on the @mentions. It is still not a Slack fuckup but a usage catastrophe

@here oops. Pardon me for tagging you inadvertently and I honestly didn't imagine someone with a nick like that

@asgs they’re a bot, btw

@asgs slack is all fun and games until they pay to see the employees texts and fire them for what they said in private

@darksideofyay can't argue with that 🤷‍♂️

@C0D4 false dichotomy. There's way better options out there than teams and Skype.

@darksideofyay source?

@sleazyboi https://vox.com/recode/2020/...

i first heard about this in a twitter thread where someone got fired because they caught him badmouthing the company in private. apparently slack enterprise allows to read private chats

@sleazyboi I have heard it happens in our org, too

So, people swear all they want and then suddenly they delete all those chat messages. You will only be left with your messages making you go paranoid. You never know which superadmin is checking out our so-called private chats

@darksideofyay as someone who's fulfilled the request to do this for upper management, it's true.

And they did get fired.

And I did share with the individual that they were under investigation because I knew it was about trash taking a particularly weenerly manager.

Slack used to notify the user that there was a request for their conversation. I suppose that's no longer in place.

@asgs the trick is, to not give a fuck.

I don't say anything on slack I wouldn't tell to someone's face.

If I think a person is a fuckwit, I'll be the first to tell them why if they ask.

The only time you get fired over something this stupid is when the person who wants you fired is weak and pathetically thin skinned.

I already know nobody "likes" working with me, but they respect my honesty and respect my opinions and THAT is what I want.

@sariel to be fair, I couldn't care less about all this. Getting fired because of this wouldn't bother as much as it would if I were to leak PII from production and sell it in the black market

I have always been vocal both offline and online, so slack is just another medium