No kidding. Tax season, there are so many posts like “how can I possibly owe money, I can’t believe it, I got a giant refund last year”.

Haha, exactly! I just wanted to make it clear that this is not a secret tax hack or anything, this is the normal thing that almost anyone would save some $$ by doing.

Where “can legitimately do” = “if you are doing it correctly”.

Is this a “Swiper no swiping” situation?

I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of anyone who just uses Teams, but I’m sure there are some. I’ve heard a lot of people only use Slack, and I’ve heard from some Meta people that they have their own internal chat, not sure what it is.

I’m at one of the mostly-email companies, though culture seems to be shifting to chat for more things, depending on who you work with.

I think for HR people, it probably wouldn’t work well for anything official. And if you aren’t at a company that already has chat culture (and the tools for it), then it’s a non-starter. But I bet that at the right company, even in HR, you could move a lot of non-critical email into chat.

I’m sure you could find a bunch of info online if you’re actually curious. I’m not sure if you’re actually curious, or just trying to dunk? Happy to engage if the former.

As I said, I don’t personally have experience with it, because I’m not at such a company, but from what I understand it’s pretty common these days for small companies. I have some friends in tech companies who use chat almost exclusively. I’ve also heard a lot of companies say that their company runs on Slack.

Obviously, there are certain things, certain roles, and certain companies that are better with email. I’m sure there are some email things I would miss, but it’s pretty undeniable that many companies run mostly on chat.

It’s just a joke about shitty corporate email. Though some people at companies without email culture advocate for chat-only, e.g. Slack. I couldn’t personally say.

I consulted at a medium-size company (few thousand users) that had to do this because people we spamming the list to sell their Tupperware or other MLM schemes.

If your company makes you use outlook, maybe getting fired would be an improvement 😂

Yes, this person is just plain wrong - talking out of their ass. There is diminishing returns the higher you get, but 30fps is absolute trash compared to 120 or 144.