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and you're still paying for it so why complain?

It's always amazing to me how everyone continues to pay a fairly ridiculous price for Slack. Sure it has it's issues but I think people would get used to it and be just as productive with the free Google Chat they already have if any executive had the guts to say they're not going to waste money on Slack anymore. But never happens.

If your enterprise is one of those corporate fortune 500 types that has Salesforce, you basically have to have Slack as it's the easiest, fastest, or at least the least miserable way of interacting with Salesforce.

My friends in knowledge-worker America tell me that they are stuck between two megacorp visions of the workplace: 365/Teams/Copilot and Salesforce/Slack. Each wants to own the whole stack, but cannot. Workers are stuck with two systems that dont want to talk to one another.

I work in a medium sized company. “Everyone” uses Teams. The software engineers use slack.

One one hand, it sucks having to monitor two services.

On another hand, it is nice having “corporate bullshit” constrained to teams.

The styles of communications / culture are very different between the two systems.

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