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Re:Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Sc... by Viliam1234 on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:36PM (#21509659)
Once I was told by my manager to close Slack and focus on my work, and only check what's new about twice a day.

A week later, the same manager got angry at me for not responding to client's urgent issue which was announced by Slack an hour ago.

So... yeah, closing Slack improves things, until it suddenly makes them worse.

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Re:Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Sc... by zentiggr on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:57PM (#21510845)
Too bad those cases usually don't have an email history to prove the prior ruleset... or it just disappears and anything's possible...

Worked for that kind of team before. Never again.

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