The 6 worst types of Slack users—and how to tell if you're one of them via CNBCMakeIt
Slack has come a long way since it was officially launched 2014. Today, the messaging app is used by many companies as a way for co-workers to instantly reach each other via online and chat. But as a team collaboration tool, it comes with a whole new set of edicts that have yet to be laid out.
This person immediately follows one mode of communication with another. They might reply to your email with a direct message on Slack or consistently @mention you directly in a public channel to get your attention. The Slack Stalker always expects an immediate answer, and they'll keep bugging you until they get one.
How to handle: First, consider whether your co-worker is a passive aggressive person in general, or they just play one on Slack, modern etiquette expert Diane Gottsman tells CNBC Make It. If you're the Passive Aggressive Slacker: It's easy to misinterpret tone or connotation without nonverbal cues. Hall suggests taking a second to reconsider how your communication habits on Slack might appear to others, or try and imagine it the other way around .
If you're the Off Topic Slacker: Remember, Slack is meant to streamline communication, not to add an ongoing stream of unnecessary chatter to everyone else. While it's clear that you only want to build relationships with your colleagues and not things too seriously, do it within reason. Check yourself every once in a while, and if in doubt, post it in #Watercooler.
How to handle:"People contact and communicate with you the way they feel most comfortable, so if somebody does it differently, know that they're not intentionally trying to annoy you," says Hall."I think there's a sense that everybody should just know these things, but they don't. If we came from a place of compassion and just admitted that communicating effectively is hard, then I think we'd realize we're doing the best we can.
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