Video conference meetings are modern society’s great equalizer—no matter how important you are, at some point, you will be reduced to a frozen, pixelated face screaming “Can you hear me now?” while your coworker’s dog barks the national anthem in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Slack
In the modern workplace, you can call in sick with a dramatic, cough-laden voicemail, only to be immediately betrayed by the blinking green dot next to your name on Slack that screams “LIAR!” to the entire company. Messaging platforms have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let me tell you a little story. It didn’t happen this way, but if aliens arrived, it probably would’ve. The year was 0-ish AD. The place: Bethlehem. The event: The birth of Christ. A glowing saucer descended over Bethlehem where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every company’s messaging platform has a shadow economy of channels where actual work goes to quietly expire while employees build elaborate civilizations of nonsense. These digital speakeasies operate under the thin veneer of professional communication while hosting everything from passionate[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…



