All my dates look like fractions. January!
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Le sigh. Like a fair number of people this is my first day back working since Christmas. And Slack, our main way of communicating now that we're all remote, has been down for hours.
Oh, my, Slack being down sounds like it would be a problem for a great many people!
Slack's back up for us, fwiw
Slack is awake again as of about five minutes ago. I honestly thought everyone was just being really quiet since it was most folks' first day back from vacation!
Yeah, we've been using Slack for my little company for quite a few years now and those days when it goes out it feels like I'm partially blind or something.
Whew, I was able to log into my credit union. Mostly it was just making me anxious to not be able to see my balance. Now I am hoping that doesn't mean my bank's security is somehow reliant on Slack...
In pre-Covid times, Slack going down would have just meant a slightly louder office since people would fall back on, you know, talking to each other out loud. These days losing access to the group chat is so completely isolating!
Yes, Slack is back for us again, too.
Even before COVID, my team's spread over two offices and everyone would work from home at least one day a week. So Slack's pretty important to us. Someone in our morning Zoom meeting suggested switching to MS Teams and everyone else pretty much recoiled, hissing like vampires who just saw a crucifix.
I cannot even get my co-workers to reliably use jabber IM. Cannot imagine using slack for work.
I still fight with several to use email rather than the phone.