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Does this mean Bobs guy is gonna grace us with his smooth lines?
That man is a poet.
At least she didn’t add the editor of the Atlantic into a secret discussion about Jason’s plans for war on the Rotarians.
See my comment posted four hours after yours. Nicely played, sir.
YES, we’re going full Jalop-topian!
Isn’t it ironic.
Bobs guy?
Again with new people Matt? You know how I feel about new people.
1,000,000 Par$h-bucks from Menards? Not bad!
Oh I’d have easily done that my first time.
On another note, Alanis is a millionaire. What’s she doing working here?
She’s actually the undercover boss. She’s come here to “work with the help” for a few days to learn how they do things.
Still trying to catch up to Fancy Kristen
Alan King is a millionaire, not Alanis.
There’s always gonna be issues joining a new organization. Alanis was just getting it out of her system in a big way 😉
The list of contributors keeps getting bigger & better: well worth the subscription!
Total noob. I’m willing to look at past it given her qualifications, history, and fun avatar, though.
So glad to see you here, Alanis!
Welcome welcome welcome Alanis, we’re so glad you’re here!
Even if maybe Lewin didn’t extra super appreciate your, what, 4 am call? 😀
I have never done that before and I’m so glad it happened in a place where it would be blogged
A L A N I S ! ! !
Hi!
Hey, it’s cool, everyone – she was just trying to add The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg back to the Signal chat.
I need to tell him my plans
Alanis is here! Now all we need to do is entice Kristen Lee…
OK, but you don’t get Fancy Kristen unless you have Softbank level funding.
I miss Fancy Kristen!
You have fancy Adrian. I’m more than enough.
There is a difference between wealthy aloof and goth aloof… Although you do have a Ferrari, which puts you in the same general direction as Fancy Kristen…
Keep adding amazing columnists!
This is gonna work out just fine.
Lol, that’s your internal problem. We still love Alanis and are thrilled to have her in the Autopian universe.
: )
Which is worse, accidental Huddle invites, or reply all to a company-wide email?
At least with Outlook, in certain organizations you can “recall” those messages as damage control.
Reply-all because I can cancel the huddle hahaha
Reply-all should require you to type “yes, i do want to reply to everyone in this email chain” into a dialogue box, or at a minimum give you a 5 second warning/recall button before it officially sends.
There are delayed send features in both Gmail and Outlook for exactly that purpose!
You can edit the ribbon in Outlook, so I personally moved the reply-all button far away from reply in hopes to force myself to make a conscious decision to chose one over the other.
I really enjoy replying-all to those emails to tell people to stop replying-all.
Love the avatar!
Welcome Alanis and also I absolutely hate Slack.
: )
Alanis is KING!
Of Slack calls
I once talked shit about our CEO on slack to a colleague. I was still screen sharing. The CEO was on the call. It was brief enough that somehow he didn’t see it but my god I thought I had just killed my career (and my bosses who I was chatting with). Biggest work related fuckup I’ve ever made by far. I never talk shit about anyone at work anymore, full stop. It’s not worth it. My boss ripped me apart for being so stupid and rightly so. I would not have blamed him one bit if he shit canned me.
This was 5 years ago and we still both work at the same place.
WOW
I learned back when I was 16 and worked in restaurants that any time I ever talked shit about one of the managers, I would turn around and find that manager standing right behind me. It never failed. Fortunately, they never did more than roll their eyes, but I learned my lesson.
That’s why I use code names when talking shit on a group chat with personal phone numbers.
Watch out for the same thing on Zoom. I once thought I was replying to a Direct Message and, very out of character, I made a fairly snarky remark that was broadcast to everyone on the call. I sweated it out for a bit, but for the most part the people I was calling out seemed to let is pass. As an old work friend used to say to his teenage sons – before you do anything, ask yourself what would you say if it was printed on the front page of the newspaper… if your only response is I don’t know why I did that… then don’t do it.
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Slack is both the best and worst thing to ever happen to businesses. It can make connections so much easier, especially for teams that are geographically spread. It is also terrible if you do something like Alanis did…which a coworker did on Wednesday…to almost 11,000 people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zw5KdqiZMs
Makes me think of the first 30 seconds of this cutscene from Serious Sam 2.
Oof, that had to suck.
tbf I immediately laughed when I did it
Ok but did anyone else join in the massive group chat?
No clue – I certainly didn’t.
OK, that is not an individual problem – that is either bad setup or back software. You should not be able to huddle with 11,000 people with a click or two.
Slack is one of the most anti-social pieces of software I’ve ever seen. The fact that @here exists is one of the biggest mis-features in the history of software design. There is absolutely no excuse for the fact that one self-absorbed person can drop into a channel and interrupt 5000 people’s day in one five letter command.
I once did the math on how much time is wasted on these mass-email/Slack screwups and it is just staggering. Sure, maybe it’s only 10 or 15 seconds to read the message and decide it doesn’t apply to you (although that’s probably optimistic in some cases), but multiply that by enough people and you start wasting literal days of time.