I could have probably worded it better. I would never let someone tell me what I can and cannot look at. you are right he should have never agreed to that

"There was nothing I could do"..

Incorrect. Most people make this assumption. But IT can sometimes recall it for you.

Yeah, I work in HR for an 1800 person department. I feel like we'll never lose email. But it's cool to know that this is a thing that companies are moving to and is very possible to be used.

That's really interesting. There's ways to keep everything in one place and search it. Thanks for your input! I've used Slack twice, and I didn't really understand it.

Messages on slack can become threads if you choose to reply in a thread instead of a channel, so you can have a channel with only top level comments and all discussion in a thread. Everything is just as archivable and searchable as any email client I've used, even more so because I can use the channels as additional search criteria.

I get emails for calendar invites and git notifications, both of which have slack integration. Other than for password recovery and account creation have very little use for email

ur actually kinda right but he shouldn't have agreed on the beginning

I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of anyone who just uses Teams, but I’m sure there are some. I’ve heard a lot of people only use Slack, and I’ve heard from some Meta people that they have their own internal chat, not sure what it is.

I’m at one of the mostly-email companies, though culture seems to be shifting to chat for more things, depending on who you work with.

I think for HR people, it probably wouldn’t work well for anything official. And if you aren’t at a company that already has chat culture (and the tools for it), then it’s a non-starter. But I bet that at the right company, even in HR, you could move a lot of non-critical email into chat.

She must be really insecure. Are you also not allowed to go out in the summer? Have to wear a blindfold at the beach?

Ooof. Don’t wish that on anyone. I’d move out asap

Boundaries are set for oneself. “You cant sleep with other people” is a rule. “I won’t stay in this relationship if you sleep with other people” is a personal boundary

Monogamy is a pretty common rule in relationships. Seems likely that is a rule both have for each other.

I really am legitimately curious. I work in HR, so a chat-only communication method blows my mind. I regularly have to keep conversations flagged to refer to later. I forward emails for approval all the time. I use the Print to PDF function to have a pdf copy of resignation letters. My work world revolves around my email. So I guess that's why, to me, it's such an insane concept.

We print out emails for our communications binder for easy access because we need to be able to refer to everything.

I use Outlook for work (and unpopular opinion is that I love Outlook), but I can't imagine solely relying on Teams to talk to people.

I’m sure you could find a bunch of info online if you’re actually curious. I’m not sure if you’re actually curious, or just trying to dunk? Happy to engage if the former.

As I said, I don’t personally have experience with it, because I’m not at such a company, but from what I understand it’s pretty common these days for small companies. I have some friends in tech companies who use chat almost exclusively. I’ve also heard a lot of companies say that their company runs on Slack.

Obviously, there are certain things, certain roles, and certain companies that are better with email. I’m sure there are some email things I would miss, but it’s pretty undeniable that many companies run mostly on chat.

Yes, my master.

Lol, so we have a distribution list that goes to literally every single employee in our department.

We had an employee go off the rails and absolutely shit talk everyone in an email sent to that distribution list. Then, she announced her resignation to the entire department.

She's the reason why only certain people are able to email that distribution list now...

Debatable, mainly because it is up to preference

Yes, you made a mistake. But the colleague that shared the screenshot on Slack is an asshole.

How would a company run on just chat services? How would you keep threads about specific topics from getting lost or be able to refer or forward the email as an attachment as proof that the conversation happened?

Awful advice.

If op wants to look then he shouldn't agree not to look. Boundaries are what the pair agreed upon.

Do you remember how you met?

It’s just a joke about shitty corporate email. Though some people at companies without email culture advocate for chat-only, e.g. Slack. I couldn’t personally say.

I feel sorry for you. Outlook is far from perfect, but it’s miles better than Gmail.

At least it didn’t create a Don’t Reply To All chain monster

Mine does

>Boundaries are behaviors that involve her and make her uncomfortable.

So it's only cheating if she's included, got it.