Sentences with phrase «slack days»

This appeared to work well and, apart from a few slack days in the beginning, I felt terrific.

«We want to make sure each member of our community hears back from us in a timely manner, and since I am working in Slack all day anyway, having comments sent there is a natural part of the workflow.»

Hot days in the summer are especially big slacker days in my world, so I made this one lazy afternoon when I probably should have been writing a patent application.

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In Slack's vision of the future, it will be totally unnecessary to try to get your inbox to zero every day.

Instead, companies can now institute a chatbot — like Slack — to act as an internal communication channel, to enable staffers to find out how many holiday days they have left this year.

Butterfield created the photo - sharing website Flickr, but these days most of his wealth is tied to Slack, an inter-office communications platform, which he feels can replace — or at least reduce — internal email.

It can be easy to view business trips as «cheat days» and allow yourself to slack on your regular fitness regimen and diet, but in most cases, you will be more productive on your business trip if you find a way to be active.

Artificial intelligence is getting smarter — and more pervasive — by the day: Facebook recently announced that it's developing a way for its bots to not only read your private messages, but understand their meaning; Slack is on its way to having its chat feature answer questions about your job.

Even President Barack Obama — a slacker until he began running three miles a day as a young man — to this day makes time for 45 minute workouts before assuming his duties.

That sort of slacking has it's advantages obviously, but these tricks are actually more likely to make your days feel rich and long:

The biggest time - sucks in my work day are email / slack / social media that break up more important work.

Indeed, at a conference in May, Butterfield said Slack had recently onboarded more than 10 percent of its workforce in a single day.

Over the next 17 days, Butterfield typed out a pitch deck explaining what Slack would be: All your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go, a platform that «builds up to the edge» of other applications, like Excel or PowerPoint, but doesn't seek to reproduce them.

At Karma, Slack has replaced email internally and at Rebelmouse, the tool allows Dicker to seamlessly transition his global team day to night shifts without any gaps in communication.

Any time I'm having a not particularly good day, I can get into that Slack channel and read what our learners are saying about what they're taking from Codecademy and how it is changing their lives.

Put the slacker on a 60 - day performance - improvement plan, with clear goals and benchmarks.

Put them together and you have Casual Friday every day, the ultimate slacker suit.

He finds that by extending payment terms to customers to 90 days and using Fundbox to pick up the slack, he gets paid faster and more often.

But in these more cloud - y days, a startup can choose among a profusion of tools designed expressly for small companies — tools to handle process, like Slack, Basecamp, Asana, Jira, HipChat, and Trello, and productivity tools to handle operations and oversight, like 15Five, Trakstar, and BetterWorks.

It's Friday, but the day offers little slack.

For example, someone might be not using Slack for several hours during the day because they are goofing off.

And you, with your policies of doctor's notes, not allowing people to go home, treating people who take sick days as slackers, and coming into work when you're sick yourself are making it much, much worse.

In fact, I've found that slacking off makes me more productive because I slack strategically — meaning that I take breaks at designated times, for regular intervals, in ways that sharpen my focus when I sit back down to work,» she argues, asserting that «strategic slacking has enabled me to dramatically increase both the quality of my work and the amount I get done in a given day.»

But these days I see a lot of people who should be working way harder than they are using stress as an excuse to become unproductive slackers.

At all other times of day, we're basically slacking from our most productive.

But while it can be an efficient way to collaborate, keeping up with Slack can become a full - time task, particularly when you return from a few days away and find thousands of status updates, scattered across dozens of channels.

Whether it's using tools like Sqwiggle to provide more team visibility throughout the day, or a Slack channel dedicated to idle chatter and cat memes, foster opportunities for the team to interact in casual, personal ways.

With his mysterious past and his completely amoral view on the world, it's like a character from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia somehow ended up in Scranton, where he spends his days stealing, slacking off and getting other people fired.

I'm a bit more of a slacker, waiting until the final days to formulate my feast.

In terms of exercise, I picked up my slack with a 1 - hour spin class yesterday and a 32 - minute run [Happy National Running Day!]

I've been trying to be really mindful of how much I eat these days (see my I've Been Slacking... post), but these muffins make for a wholesome, real food snack and one that I'm happy to eat and feed my kids.

While I've been good about making sure I go to the gym every day, my diet has definitely been slacking.

Try Evil Twin Citra Sunshine Slacker, as bright and tropical as a Caribbean vacation; 21st Amendment Down to Earth, reminiscent of toast topped with berry jam; or a Founders» citrus - spritzed All Day IPA, a party beer sold by the 15 - pack suitcase.

Jae Crowder, Marcus Smart, and Bradley were not able to pick up the shooting slack from Isaiah Thomas, who flew home to Seattle after Game 2 to grieve with his family following the death of his sister the day before the series started.

I'll be the first to say I gave him a ton of slack and never thought I'd see the day.

On road - melting summer days in Arlington, Texas, when his parents were at work and all his older sister and brother wanted to do was go slack - jawed in front of their favorite TV shows, Jeremy's pestering would make them so crazy that they'd invite him to follow them through an upstairs bedroom window onto the roof, then slip back inside and lock the window, marooning him up there for the rest of the day.

However, with Paul George and Carmelo Anthony joining him this year, the Thunder won't be as screwed if Westbrook takes a rest day or has to sit out due to injury because there are other star players to pick up the slack.

You should cut him some slack, it's not going to be easy to write numerous articles each day.

Cut the day tripping tourists a bit of slack because without them there would be no Liverpool.

I want my kids to do the best job they can every day, so if I was to slack off helping others, it wouldn't make me a good example.

Consider adding a few extra pumping sessions throughout the day between feedings or normal pumping sessions, but only pump the slacker boob for these sessions.

With the sunny days of summer, we've been slacking with our birth stories!

Drink plenty of water during the day to stay hydrated, but slack off on your intake in the evening to avoid frequent bathroom trips throughout the night.

Just go ahead and feed her, cuddle with her, and in a day or two, she will slack off as your milk supply increases a bit.»

:) So, I totally slacked on taking food photos this week (whomp whomp... P.S. Quinn said this the other day, and it was hilarious), BUT I have a whole bunch of CrossFit...

Between parenting, preparing three real food meals a day, working on my relationships, and making videos and blog posts, I need to cut myself some slack and email is where I do so.

My daughter isn't even in real school yet and I've always started to slack on my morning wardrobe and have been wearing my old juicy track suits some days to her 2 × 2 class lol... I guess this is karma and now I can be the one the non moms make fun of lol

I'd rather pay for Grandma to come away on holiday for a week to pick up a bit of the slack than dump the baby off for a whole day somewhere!

I would say just talk to them about the potty read up on babycenter about the different things to help the process along because even if they are not talking that much they still may give off many non verbal clues of having to go potty.However if they are really not ready try potty training keep a onesie on in the day time with their clothing and a blanket sleeper on at night that way they hopefully won't be able to get to the dirty diaper before you.My dd is 19 months as well and I have been training her sort of by letting her sit on the potty I have only let her use the one that goes on the big toilet but she peed in it once and she often will say she has to pee when in the bathroom but will sit and not do anything and get little pieces of tissue off the roll and push it into toilet this is her renditon of wiping even though the tissue does not really come in contact with any areas that need to be wiped I have slacked off on the training because she can not pull her pants up and down which is on the list of things kids need to be able to do to go by themseleves.Maybe just get them a few books and videos and a potty chair and talk to your dd's and see what happens you may be surpised.HTH