Okay, back to the people who need Slack open for their jobs.
Not being able to mute or suppress doesn't necessarily need HR if everybody thinks it's quirky and harmless fun. You're then the odd man out and ostracized for trying to do your job efficiently - it's pretty bogus, but until some HN user decides to create a new messaging channel. It's gotten to the point where people will avoid seeing you in person but just as quickly ask if you "got that slack" the second they do. It's like e-mail but now you're expected to have it on your phone, home computer, work computer - never a chance to say "no" because you didn't feel like reading it at the time even as it's 9 pm on a Monday night. It's invasive and turns work banter into privatized logs of discussion - from an entry level POV this is terrible.
Is there a solution here? People have been plagued with robocalls especially so for the last few years - I personally have never had it this bad since moving to Los Angeles two years ago, I get at least one if not three a day and this is way more tiring while job hunting. Any ways around this?
Los Angelino here I gotta say the homeless are absolutely 100% not afraid of being injured and are only on this plane of reality in a physical sense. Take a drive down Venice boulevard to Skid Row and you will see encampments of a symbiotic nature - literal fused together tents with working lights on the ground level of skyscrapers with garbage fires to keep warm. Australia has the reputation for killer bugs, a walk into south side Chicago is exponentially more terrifying than any wildlife encounter as at least animals follow patterns and will typically leave you alone if vice versa. We are an unhinged and well armed people with lack of affordable healthcare. But I do have 90 mbps download and upload speed so I kinda just keep my head in the clouds.
That's severely flawed logic to insinuate that hourly wage equates to work output. You must be on salary. Us little guys don't think like that, I promise. Underpaid workers don't want "more work" paid the same amount as if they do "less work," unless they're paid proper living wages in which case they wouldn't feel cutting corners necessary imo.
WFH has caused many companies to ease up on restrictions involving location, ip, and sometimes a broader need for software. Granted, nobody should be this easy to bamboozle, but I get why now more than ever this may have been an issue.
I work in customer service supervising entry level employees. The amount of power they have at any given time is astounding and it's by sheer ignorance or benevolence that more isn't embezzled en masse or this information isn't used for personal gain. My entire team of newly trained staff have access to your bank account information, where and when your payment was posted by IP, and we can strip 2fa or mobile numbers at whim. This coupled with inexperienced agents often leaves multiple accounts compromised. Having a select few engineers who don't work weekends always helps. We don't train the agents to tell them that they could potentially ruin customers' weeks by pushing the wrong button and it happens way too often to be standard, but as long as investors are happy and banks are good to reverse charges with no penalties here we are. Tech companies are good to throw caution to the wind.
Rpg Maker, GameMaker, JS itself, Unreal Engine. - it's true Flash gave way to allowing creativity to flourish easier but accessibility has come and gone - at this point it's personal preference and CPU usage that dictate the expanse of your games