World News Headlines July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 Trick your boss into thinking you’re working with Slack scheduled messages 0 0000 0 0 more Trick your boss into thinking you’re working with Slack scheduled messages July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found July 10, 2021 Under One Ceiling Trick your boss into thinking you’re working with Slack scheduled messages Tech finally made the world a better place. Slack, the messaging platform used by organizations ranging from the MTA to SoftBank, quietly released a new feature in late June that’s set to forever change the remote-work game: scheduled messages. Because whether or not Slack intended it, scheduled messages are perfect for tricking your boss into thinking you’re working. (Or for the less devious among us, just not bugging your co-workers after hours.) As the name suggests, the feature lets you compose and schedule a message to be posted in a Slack channel of your choosing at a later date. Most importantly for our purposes, once sent the message looks exactly the same as any other message — giving no indication that it was scheduled in advance. The possibilities are wondrous. Picture it: It’s a beautiful summer afternoon, the sun is blazing, and you’re at the beach soaking in those rays. But thanks to scheduled messages, as far as your boss can tell you’re hard at work dropping pitch ideas into the #Brainstorm channel. Tweet may have been deleted Combine that with a handy little trick which keeps your Slack status bubble green, and you’re a nonstop working machine in the eyes of your corporate overlords. We’re clearly not the only ones who can’t wait to, ahem, use this feature to its fullest potential. “Everyone’s saying slack scheduled messages promote work life balance by sending messages during working hours but I’m going to use them to send messages in the middle of the night so it looks like I’m always working,” wrote Nick Morgan, whose Twitter profile identifies him as a backend engineer at Twitter. Tweet may have been deleted “Nah you got to use them to make it look like you’re working while taking a nap,” replied another self-identified Twitter employee Justin Anderson. Others, perhaps hesitant to put themselves on blast, merely hinted at some vague mischievousness in their future. Tweet may have been deleted Because let’s be real: While some may welcome the scheduled messages feature as the bland productively tool it’s surely intended to be, we all know what many Slack users will do with it. SEE ALSO: How to keep your Slack status active while *ahem* ‘working’ from home See you at the beach. Related Related posts: Coronavirus: Face coverings now compulsory in Scotland’s shops tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous Yes, we can reverse gray hair. No, we don't know why it works. Just chill. next Biden’s executive order: What it means for Big Tech and you
