Funnily enough I was hired on a 12 month contract as a software developer.
Four months into that contract I was moved over to a struggling 'Slack' enabled project, to help them work through their ever growing backlog.
I knew someone working on that project and discussed with them the project's use of Slack only to realise it was nothing more than a talk fest and not for me.
So when the project manager approached me, asking if I would like to join in on the Slack discussions, I declined.
Needless to say that did no go down so well.
However, I stuck to my guns and 12 months on my contract was renewed.
To this day Slack is still not part of my daily development life.
99% of the time, Slack is nothing more but a glorified, shitty messaging client. And most people I know don't even know why they're using slack, it's just that it's the tool they think everybody uses, and they don't really see why they should look elsewhere.
Four months into that contract I was moved over to a struggling 'Slack' enabled project, to help them work through their ever growing backlog.
I knew someone working on that project and discussed with them the project's use of Slack only to realise it was nothing more than a talk fest and not for me.
So when the project manager approached me, asking if I would like to join in on the Slack discussions, I declined.
Needless to say that did no go down so well.
However, I stuck to my guns and 12 months on my contract was renewed.
To this day Slack is still not part of my daily development life.