My company does the same, and I suppose it's useful, but I'm not a big fan.
I guess I find IM to be interrupty enough that 90% of the time I wish the other person would just get their lazy ass over here so we can actually talk about the problem, hopefully solving it a reasonable time frame, rather than drivel text at each other ages.
Short questions, fine. But junk like "I'm coding up a model implementation based on the documentation you wrote, and I want to know how I can make sure it's right" is just the wrong thing to do via IM. Just to pick an example completely at random.
I guess I've never really been bitten by the IM bug, either at home or at work.
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Date: 2006-09-11 11:39 pm (UTC)I guess I find IM to be interrupty enough that 90% of the time I wish the other person would just get their lazy ass over here so we can actually talk about the problem, hopefully solving it a reasonable time frame, rather than drivel text at each other ages.
Short questions, fine. But junk like "I'm coding up a model implementation based on the documentation you wrote, and I want to know how I can make sure it's right" is just the wrong thing to do via IM. Just to pick an example completely at random.
I guess I've never really been bitten by the IM bug, either at home or at work.