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Re:Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work by bitdotdash on Monday December 14, 2020 @05:45PM (#25424389)
Because management should be rigorously defending devs from being needlessly interrupted with whatever some sales guy thinks is important in the moment? Management can filter out the garbage, condense down the really important bits and deliver them during a time it won't knock dev out of the zone?
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Re:Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work by Nimitz14 on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:05PM (#25425193)
Worked fine where I worked. You know you can turn notifications off? You know you can tell a sales guy he's being annoying?
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Re:Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work by denton-scratch on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:54AM (#25442464)
We were banned by management from turning off notifications.
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