Workplace starts using slack (or other chat app);

Now you can use channels: now your inbox has inboxes and you don't know where to look.

Now channels support threads: now your inboxes have inboxes have inboxes.

1,000 books on productivity and research show how important deep work is and time boxing your email:
Now your inboxes that have inboxes thst have expect your attention every moment of the day.. And I still don't know where to look.

Now we are able to tell if your users are active: now either your users install spyware or they will have to alt tab every 20 minutes just to write space and cancel it

You don't need to pay attention to slack notifications.

To be honest...

I understand that some companies misuse email (eg 24/7 availability expected)... But email was and will ever by my favorite organisation / comm tool.

I fucking hate chats.

IRC was great. It was simple. You could log everything. Noone who knew the basic rules of netiquette would expect a fast answer.

Nowadays we have the mentioned crap of the rant... We have video calls which are seemingly great except one has to write transcripts / notes and noone wants to do it... And every company I know so far has the terrible habit of overthinking stuff and creating a fucktillion of channels (we don't want the others to know.... *stabbing noises*)

IRC and E-Mail were simple. Plain, but simple.

HTML, Threads, Emoticons, GIFs, Movies.... It turned to shit.