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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by leadingthenet on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:58AM (#21700678)
> I wonder if they’re deliberately insulting my intelligence.

They are, but in cases like these you should always ask yourself if you're the target market. Frankly, if you're not the one deciding whether to adopt Slack at your workplace, you're probably not...

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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by umanwizard on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:04AM (#21700697)
I work at a very small company with eminently reasonable management. If the engineers didn't want to use Slack, we wouldn't use it.

Sadly, you're probably right that most people aren't in that boat...

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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by leadingthenet on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:24AM (#21700787)
Exactly. At my current place, management would laugh in my face for even thinking of such a thing. And this is a small company, mind you.

Yes, I do want to leave asap.

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