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I think the widespread use of chat clients and services like slack in large companies has changed this norm.
There was a time where it would be unprofessional, but now its a solution to the communication flaw inherent in written messages. Conveying emotion.
My spouse works fairly high up at one of the evil tech giants and their team was very excited to be working with some dude who had written a computer language (I don’t remember the details) and someone had written him this very professional document requesting he read it and assess it, his only response to this very carefully prepared document was a “👍🏻” and literally nothing else lol, everyone was low key offended but no one said anything to him because they all basically considered him a celebrity
I work for a MSP, and we have a chat for "account managers", a non technical position where they interact with the clients upper management, and tell them stuff we as techs shouldn't (hard no's, complaints, large project recommendations etc).
That chat is full of gifs, jokes, emoticons and some memes. I feel like the weird one not feeling comfortable doing that there. I do all that stuff too, but usually in smaller more private chats.
Very well said.
Gonna use this argument anytime a boomer breaths.
Ill message my boss and get a emoticon response sometimes, usually for simple yes or okay responses, and they'll send out meme for some regular announcements like timesheets or stuff
I use the facepalm one all the time at work.
"I've never been promoted for my professionalism, but I've been promoted countless times for my skill. If you'd rather lose out on the best employee you may ever have because of a smiley face, I'm not sure this environment would be a good fit for me anyway."
Am I the only one who sends GIFs in work chats?
I mean I won't send one to a VP but I can send them to peers, supervisors, managers, department heads. No issues.
Hell people throw down happy Monday memes around.
GIFs are just about the best thing about moving from Skype to Teams for work. I think if they took them from us there'd be an uproar tbh.
Microsoft bought giphy I think so they know what's up. That's why they got a GIF button now.
I can't find anywhere that says Microsoft has owned Giphy.
Meta bought giphy. I got it twisted
I worked at a mid sized company, we used slack and used gifs and memes and had thousands of custom emojis uploaded.
Got purchased by a mega Corp, now use Teams, we've been slowly corrupting them with smileys, memes, gifs, etc. It's been good.
Same thing happened to us but we've completed the corruption already.
Important meetings are meme/gif free but daily meetings and team chats are fully corrupted. It's more of a work culture thing. Less stuffy.
Yeah it's been a couple years now and it's clear we're won lol. Our last town hall had a game where you spam gifs in the chat :P would have been unthinkable a couple years ago. They literally had gifs turned off before we got there.
I'm afraid I'm about to go through this exact same thing. Company currently uses Slack, with hundreds of custom emojis and our own shitposting channel. We got bought out by a massive international conglomerate several months ago, and ultimately the plan is to move everything over to Microsoft, which is what they use throughout their organization.
Teams has improved a lot in the past couple years since I was forced to move over, and Microsoft power automate is legitimately really powerful if you're interested in automation.
Good luck with the corporate culture though, it really sucks.
You can add custom emojis in teams now 🙂
Amateurs, I share scat porn on slack.
I wish you were not gonna lie my coworkers are not my friends and I don't want to see their memes or other goofy business, I left a group message the other day because someone replied to something I said with a gif I find it rude in a professional setting.
Well, it's good that you left the group chat then. That's a win win. You don't have to see GIFs and they don't have to deal with a huge pessimist.
It's not pessimistic to not want to be involved with coworkers in an unprofessional manner, i said a form of communication was inappropriate for text messaging instead of an email because it was too long and some turd sends a GIF back of some guy going pshh flapping his hand off in my mind he's an unprofessional jackass.
if I'm working I'm not there to see your stupid bullshit I'm there to make money and go back to my own stupid bullshit.
Well some of us can have some fun while working.
I use memes when appropriate with the right people.
I helped out a peer and they thanked me. Thumbs up gif.
Someone closed out a tough ticket. Congrats gif.
I finished a tough ticket. Frodo its done in group chat.
Servers are down. No memes. How can I help.
Sadly some people don't have good social etiquette. But I use my memes and people like it.
dude it's not a eulogy. how are people still bitching about smiley faces especially in conversations like this. fucking inhuman corporate robot piece of 💩
Weird … I was told the exact same thing by my boss.
So I stopped using emojis, and then she told me that my messages were “passive-aggressive” or “rude”
And I told her that’s why people use emojis, to add the nuance that is missing because we aren’t communicating face-to-face 🤷♀️
Emoji are fine, but I hate when people follow every other word with one. You know the type: every “I see” is followed by 👀, they can’t mention a house without 🏠, and God help you if they start talking about their pet, because there’s more pictures of animals, hearts, and stars than words.
I worked with someone once who would write the most condescending chat messages and finish them off with a smiley face. I think he truly didn't understand that the smiley made it worse. Regardless of the lack of social awareness, his superiority complex was annoying.
I exclusively only use smileys sarcastically in work emails to shitty managers. He knew.
This is why I hate people. You never know when you'll meet one of these dumb dumbs that think life is a competition to seem the most adult. They're the idiots that need to have prefaces saying shit like "the video game industry is actually bigger than the music and movie industry combined" when reading financial times. Get stuffed.
My workplace is somewhat stuffy but I've still never seen anyone take issue with a smiley or similar emoji in an email. Tone is hard to assess over text, a simple :) goes a long way sometimes.
I'm afraid I have to give you your notice, as your position is no longer a priority for the company 😢
I disabled to use of emojis when I set up our companies internal wiki for SOP thinking that wasn't appropriate for technical documentation, but my boss asked me to turn them back on because he wanted to use them. I begrudgingly obliged.
Turns out he didn't want to use smileies, just the icons for quickly identifying bullet points like ⛔‼️✅❕or even 🌐🖨️
A decade ago, I was annoyed by emojis. Hate that shit.
But then some PM decorated all the knowledge base page titles in our Confluence to have a icon in the front to visually group the goal.
And that's when I learned how valuable a good emoji can be.
Emojis are fine, but I still prefer emoticons - I feel like they have more flair ^ _ ^
Depending on the venue, I end up viewing emotions as a passive indicator of "Internet tenure". O_o Conveys that someone has been on the Internet longer than 🤨 usage. (In some cases)