Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore. Advice?

Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by userbinator on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:22PM (#34021365)

Ask your company to consider using Microsoft Teams instead. It's so repulsive that you and everyone else will probably be far less willing to communicate at all.

Only half-joking.

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by brailsafe on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:33PM (#34021527)

This is so true though.

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by ideamotor on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:52PM (#34021730)

Haha brilliant

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by wellthisisgreat on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:20PM (#34021997)

Haha I just posted here that we seriously switched to MS Teams at some point for that exact reason, but couldn’t stomach it, it really is just worse than “bad enough not to use it much”

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by andrei_says_ on Friday December 16, 2022 @07:05PM (#34022437)

A sad salute from a company which mandated teams and force installed it on every person’s desktop.

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by quickthrower2 on Friday December 16, 2022 @07:12PM (#34022503)

Slack is getting there “are you sure you wanna make a call, huddles! (presses yes) … are you sure you wanna make a call, huddles! (presses yes) … are you sure you wanna make a call, huddles! (presses yes) …”

And channel bloat that makes my Christmas tree lights jealous.

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by folmar on Saturday December 17, 2022 @03:14PM (#34031763)

Slack is right. Calls only work in app and huddles work everywhere including Firefox. Make you coworkers' day sunny by never using calls.

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by sublinear on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:00PM (#34023510)

Believe it or not, Teams/Outlook are actually a lot less awful on Mac OS.

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by nikau on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:42PM (#34023811)

Not sure how you came to that conclusion regarding outlook, one of the reasons I moved to Windows from osx was the mac version of outlook was so terrible.

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by CryptoBanker on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:03PM (#34023538)

You had me in the first half there

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by roninghost on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:32AM (#34026603)

How lucky, we use Zoom as team's chat.

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by imhoguy on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:25PM (#34031213)

Omg, Chats and Teams separation which forces you to constantly click between these is real ADHD amplifier. I hate it!

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Re:Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack ... by folmar on Saturday December 17, 2022 @03:15PM (#34031780)

Only click on Teams if you have notifications. Otherwise I only look at teams twice a week. Teams are unusable otherwise as you have to scroll around the multi-scren channel list and everyone involved should be already aware of that and always @mention everyone needed.

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