Experts Reckon If You Use These Silly Emojis At Work It Means You Fkn Loathe Your Colleagues

In a sign that technology has gone too far, folks have psychoanalysed the humble emoji and come to the conclusion that your coworkers could take a few of ’em the wrong way. And by that, I mean they might think you kind of hate their guts. As someone who always works from home because I live in a city more than 3,000km away from my team, I’m taking notes. I simply must know if these people I call my friends, nay colleagues, loathe me. This whole emoji hatred discourse started in an article from The New York Times, which looked at how it can be tricky to communicate via Slack — a messaging software used by loads of companies, including ye olde PEDESTRIAN.TV. This is because, you know, it’s hard to inject personality and flair into a message when it’s being sent from someone with a photo of Chris Pine

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“People from younger generations are trying to avoid the thumbs up emoji as they see it as passive aggressive and a low effort response,” he said.

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