Apropos of nothing, what happens when two companies merge and suddenly share the same Slack?
Photo: Gary S. Chapman/Getty Images On Tuesday evening, Vox Media announced that it had acquired New York Magazine and its associated brands. This includes Intelligencer, the website you are reading right now. In an all-hands meeting at New York’s Canal Street office at noon yesterday, Vox head honcho Jim Bankoff and New York Media CEO Pam Wasserstein addressed the tension floating throughout the company. There will not be any layoffs, they stressed. It’s, supposedly, business as usual.
Slack serves many functions, large and small. You can be summoned to HR over Slack, you can share news or workshop ideas, or you can gossip and banter. There are public, official rooms for certain divisions, and private equivalents for select members. Low-ranking employees might have a channel separate from management. Maybe there’s a channel just for sharing pet pics, or one for alerting the office to leftovers and snacks that are up for grabs.
Other New York employees vowed to resist. “I refuse to change my profile pic from a Jigglypuff,” Jackson McHenry told me. “I will remain Beanie Feldstein,” Madison Malone Kircher pledged. I, since 2015, have never had an avatar in New York’s Slack and, frankly, it would be weird if I did it now. The software lives up to its name. If you’re a certain type of masochist, you can drop into your new employer’s Slack and search your name . In 2016, my colleague Max Read had his innocuous Slack joke about Hulk Hogan read out in court during the lawsuit that eventually bankrupted Gawker Media. The communication logs were included in the discovery process, a good demonstration of why lawyers would always rather talk on the phone.
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