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by SoftTalker 11 days ago
Who would put a career ruining message on slack or any other company platform/service?
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Seemingly benign and/or entirely work-related messages can turn out to be career-ending when weaponized by the company.
Or a coworker with an ax to grind.
It can be more subtle than that. For example...

I'm working on a challenging project where there's a delta between what the market and PM's are asking for, and what dev wants to commit to. I'm talking to both parties to try and build consensus.

In such situations I dont want either side to see the negotiations, reasoning and reconciliations. Its not that there are career limiting statements in these threads, it's just navigating politics and I dont want that content in the public square