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ZerosquareLe 19/03/2025 à 13:30
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Slack: The Art of Being Busy Without Getting Anything Donematduggan.comWhy I think Slack and Slack-clones are actually a net negative for most organizations that use them.
Show up, spend eight hours orchestrating the idea of work, and then go home feeling like I'd tried to make a sandcastle on the beach and getting upset when the tide did what it always does. I wasn't making anything, I certainly wasn't helping our users or selling the product. I was project managing, but poorly, like a toddler with a spreadsheet.

And for the senior engineers? Forget about it. Why bother formulating a coherent question for a team channel when you could just DM the poor bastard who wrote the damn code in the first place? Sure, they could push back occasionally, feigning busyness or pointing to some obscure corporate policy about proper channel etiquette. But let's be real. If the person asking was important enough (read: had a title that could sign off on their next project), they were answering. Immediately.

So, you had your most productive people spending their days explaining why they weren't going to answer questions they already knew the answer to, unless they absolutely had to. It's the digital equivalent of stopping a concert pianist to teach you "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" 6 times a day.