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0 pointsagar2y ago0 comments

I admit to being guilty of the "YT?" or "Hi" type messages, but it's for a reason: the person may be presenting to a client and shared their screen instead of their window.

I've been on too many Zooms where the presenter's Slack pops up saying, "John, we have a call with <company name> about <topic> at 3:00. Can you join?"

Multiple times, this information was probably sensitive. I'd rather avoid that by waiting until I get a response.

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pjmlp2y ago

While you have a point, the golden rule is to shut down everything related to email and IM during meetings.

cableshaft2y ago

But you can't control what other people do. You can control what messages you send.

verve_rat2y ago

But you can expect people to do their jobs. If a notification embarrassed the company in front of a customer then talk to that person's manager about training them to not be a numpty.

Stop having such low expectations of grown ass adults.

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telotortium2y ago

It's called snooze your notifications. Easy enough to do, at least on macOS, and surely all OSs with a unified notification manager.

madcadmium2y ago

You can control what messages you receive by closing your client

saalweachter2y ago

There may be a middle ground. In this example, you could say, "Are you available to join a call at 3:30?"; that gives a little information about the topic and the time sensitivity, but it may still require a follow-up.

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