Comment by black_13

Slack is essentially a way for your management to spy on your communications with your coworkers. Lets say you don’t know a subject matter and you wish to ask and you have to ask about tribal knowledge. This is great for those who wish to hold on to it if you work at toxic company. The holder just says „ask the slack channel“. Now everyone knows what you dont know including your management. You know this so you dont use slack instead you figure if its obtainable from Stack Overflow you go that route and just go home and just work unpaid like everyone else. But tribal knowledge is where this breaks down. I worked for company that used a home grown linux arm system where at times you need to be root and you needed to a specific user and the packages were based on the slackware packages. It had grown over many years and had an overlay of git and being split between the us and europe. slack was great was of telling ppl to get lost. The better alternative would be office hours but the company was like all American companies lets trim everything to nothing lets be lean to point of Anorexia and thats ficking slack