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Is it allowed for my company to make me participate in a group chat outside of work hours?

My work added me to a company-wide group chat. The group chat goes off day and night and it's super spammy. Instead of sending out emails they send out in the group chat and everybody is replying. That like, the equivalent of everybody hitting “reply all” to every email. 99% of what's in it is just full of “this” and “lol” and “okay”, and random memes. About 70% of it isn't even remotely relevant to me and my position. It just constantly blows up. The whole thing is obnoxious and unprofessional and blasts my phone with constant notifs. I muted the frickin thing. It was annoying as hell and I hated it. For about a week I had some much needed rest from the constant notifs. The other day my manager was upset because I missed some iMpOrTaNt announcement that went out in this spammy frickin thing. If it was…


My work added me to a company-wide group chat. The group chat goes off day and night and it's super spammy. Instead of sending out emails they send out in the group chat and everybody is replying. That like, the equivalent of everybody hitting “reply all” to every email.

99% of what's in it is just full of “this” and “lol” and “okay”, and random memes. About 70% of it isn't even remotely relevant to me and my position. It just constantly blows up. The whole thing is obnoxious and unprofessional and blasts my phone with constant notifs.

I muted the frickin thing. It was annoying as hell and I hated it. For about a week I had some much needed rest from the constant notifs. The other day my manager was upset because I missed some iMpOrTaNt announcement that went out in this spammy frickin thing. If it was so important, WHY did you send it by chat and not by email? We all have company emails.

Anyway I guess what I'm trying to ask is, is it allowed for them to make me participate in this stupid group chat?

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