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Colleague started a slack channel for our team, management wanted nothing to do with it. We used it to work and have a bit of fun.

Some push / drive came form somewhere and now all the managers are on it. Yesterday I was told my screenshot and "snarky comment" are not appropriate for the workplace and to delete my slack message.

My comment was a joke about about a new app the company has to use "to increase efficiency" that broke and wouldn't let me do what I needed. It wasn't offensive, demeaning, sexist to anyone or even contain any bad language.

How petty and childish to be monitoring a private channel making sure everything is positive. We all joked that from now on our meme's must be about how awesome the company is and how much time we are saving on a daily basis.

God forbid we're allowed to speak honestly and openly or have a bit of fun.

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  • 4
    8y
    New Slack plugin idea: Encrypt all messages over Slack. However at that point you're better off using Signal for Desktop. 😆
  • 5
    8y
    A company I used to work for had a great culture for communication on Slack. However, one day the CEO came into one of our chats and told us we were talking too much on chat despite the conversation being relevant to the job.

    This effectively killed chat culture in one swoop and now we barely talk to one another at all. Management loves to have that power over people, even if it means killing communication.
  • 6
    8y
    " are not appropriate for the workplace "

    Reading a slack channel, you have nothing to do with, on the company's dime, is? I sometimes think that management is a made up profession for the unskilled.
  • 0
    8y
    Yeah similar shit here. So I put memes on all the Linux distro backgrounds *anonymous user pushed to build pipeline*
  • 0
    8y
    Keybase does encrypted group chat now.
  • 0
    8y
    It’s not a matter for encryption really. They are not using any monitoring software, we could setup private chat rooms and what not and not invite them.

    It’s just frustrating that we set this up and now are having to go and hide inside it. We will now have a private channel for exactly the same thing as the “general” channel -3 people.

    ... this does not make me feel like an adult working for a multinational. This makes me feel like I’m in school hiding from my teacher trying to pass secret notes.
  • 0
    8y
    Shitty management is pervasive. The larger the company, the harder it is to root out.
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