The 21 most irritating Slack pet peeves
If you use messaging app Slack, you know sometimes it can get a bit irritating, to say the least.
We at Mashable had no issues coming up with our biggest Slack pet peeves — almost as if we'd been thinking about them for awhile.
To be clear, the service itself is actually pretty revolutionary. How people use it on the other hand...
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Here are 21 of the most popular answers.
1.When Giphy does not "cooperate."
2. "@here." Enough said.
3.
Being personally tagged in a chat where you already get ALL the notifications.
4. When people don't respond to epic /giphys.
5. Slackbot.
6. When /giphy comes up with something racist/sexist.
7. When people have dumb names for their slack name.
8. Lack of themes
9. Mac app takes forever to load/connect.
10. When you're out of office and still get all of the mentions/DMs...but check them anyway.
11. When you come back from the bathroom and have, like, a kajillion (okay, any more than one) notifications.
12. Even when you go offline on your mobile app, you're somehow. always. available.
13. No one responding to your comments 'cause you're an intern.
14. Room spam.
15. The constant buzz of your team chatting 24/7 when maybe you are out of office, trying to focus...or don’t care.
16. Incomprehensible emoji reactions.
17. When you're on a Hangout and people keep pinging you.
18. When you forget to set quiet hours and get a 3 a.m. wakeup from someone on Slack.
19. When you don't even get an emoji reaction to your hilarious jokes.
20. Getting into work and seeing 25+ Slack notifications before you've had your coffee.
21. People
who
hit Return
on Slack
too often and it
pings
every
time.
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Chelsea Frisbie was interning at Mashable as the Lifestyle Section Intern. A SUNY Oswego Alum, she graduated with a degree in Broadcasting and Mass Communication and a minor in Gender Studies, and while there received several awards for her three talk shows and work in local news. Her favorite pastimes include watching Dr. Phil, practicing her Emmy acceptance speech, and subtly sneaking feminism into her daily conversations.
