The most important part of your job as an engineer is politics, not engineering
God, no. Politics is a necessary evil, sometimes.
You might think that blocking out pointless meetings and other useless distractions will help you to focus on actual engineering
This is entirely true.
What you'll find is that within mere weeks, others are taking credit for your work
What kind of organization are you working for, that allows this? In any case, using slack won't prevent anyone who truly, inappropriately wants to take credit from doing so.
Soon enough, you will be sidelined and marginalized, and no meaningful work will be assigned to you
This is only if your skillset is not relevant enough.
Never turn your back to your coworkers.
How do you go from not wanting to use slack to that? There are other means of communicating with your coworkers. Email is still superior for anything relevant.
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The most important part of your job as an engineer is politics, not engineering
God, no. Politics is a necessary evil, sometimes.
You might think that blocking out pointless meetings and other useless distractions will help you to focus on actual engineering
This is entirely true.
What you'll find is that within mere weeks, others are taking credit for your work
What kind of organization are you working for, that allows this? In any case, using slack won't prevent anyone who truly, inappropriately wants to take credit from doing so.
Soon enough, you will be sidelined and marginalized, and no meaningful work will be assigned to you
This is only if your skillset is not relevant enough.
Never turn your back to your coworkers.
How do you go from not wanting to use slack to that? There are other means of communicating with your coworkers. Email is still superior for anything relevant.