• Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14·
    4 months ago

    I don’t really understand work social media groups/websites. I worked at a KFC for a while, and we had this weird Microsoft Facebook knockoff called yapper, there were occasional manager rants specific to our store and congratulations posts, but company wide was just weird. Mostly just memes and people begging for krushers back

    • sugar_in_your_tea
      7·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, we have one as well (yammer, probably same as yours), and pretty much nobody uses it, or at least I ignore it.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        Oh, Yammer, that’s the one. I never really used it much either, I don’t think I can get behind sending memes on a company platform monitored by your manager, fully tied to your actual identity. I had to use it for store news and such. I did some deep digging, sure hope they couldn’t see that. I went back years out of boredom and curiosity and found some juicy arguments. Seriously, who’s arguing with people over inconsequential things on a work social media??

        • sugar_in_your_tea
          4·
          4 months ago

          I know, right? That can only end one of two ways: HR gets pissed or nobody cares. There’s no positives here. Your manager won’t promote you because you posted something insightful or funny, they care about numbers and how much they like you in person.

          So yeah, I really don’t understand who that’s for.

          • Danquebec
            3·
            4 months ago

            It has 2 good uses:

            1. Sharing knowledge without being limited to the boundaries of teams and departments.
            2. A social network around a topic (such as posting photos of your pets) that anyone in the organization can join.
            • sugar_in_your_tea
              31·
              4 months ago
              1. We have an internal company site for posting relevant info (e.g. HR docs, processes, etc), as well as email if there truly is something relevant to the entire company (that’s incredibly rare)
              2. I honestly don’t care that Betsy in Missouri has a dog if I live in Arizona; if I want to discuss things about a topic, I’ll do it on real SM, not internal company SM
              • Danquebec
                1·
                4 months ago
                1. I wasn’t clear on this. It’s more like, a community for keeping on top of a topic like LLM developments, or asking and answering questions concerning a software that’s used in the organization. It can also concern processes, but where pooling answers throughout several teams works best. It’s not a place for docs (that’s SharePoint’s role). An email isn’t the good channel as the ensuing conversation would clutter everyone’s mailbox.
                2. Some people like to chat with colleagues. It’s also an opportunity for networking. Of course it’s not mandatory, so if it’s not interesting to you, just don’t go on the communities that are “for fun”.