[nkrisc]

Worse than the work email spam at some of my previous jobs was the Slack spam - at least the email spam was work-related. Too many people substitute work for a social life and treat Slack like they’re on a group chat with friends.

[lostlogin]

> Worse than the work email spam at some of my previous jobs was the Slack spam

It’s annoying if not muted and you need to work. Why not do that?

A workplace with no chat and zero talk would be pretty grim.

[theshrike79]

If the company Slack doesn't have a #memes channel, I don't want to work there.

[hnlmorg]

There's nothing wrong with social chat on Slack. It just needs to be either in a thread or, better yet, in a dedicated social channel.

Saying people shouldn't have social chat on Slack is like people shouldn't have social chat in the office kitchen because it's part of the same office complex.

[nkrisc]

And if they did that, I’d have nothing to complain about. That’s never been my experience though with Slack at work.

[hnlmorg]

That’s unfortunate but it’s not a universal trend.

The problem here isn’t Slack, it’s poor Slack etiquette. However you can change etiquette at a company level.

[tayo42]

@here I need an update on a ticket

@here were doing some it maintenance over the weekend in the middle of the night on a system no one uses