Coworker: Hi
Me: [Waits for more info, nothing comes.]
Me: Hello
Coworker: So
[Several seconds pass]
Coworker: What’s up with that file from yesterday?
Me: [Waits for more info, nothing comes.]
Me: Which file
[No response for literally 10 minutes]
Coworker: The one we sent to client B
Me: [Rather than keep trying to extract information, search through history and find file which was sent to client B yesterday, find nothing obviously wrong with it, and it was nothing to do with me anyway]
Me: [Sends link to file] You mean this one?
[5 minutes pass]
Coworker: NM I figured it out. Thanks!
My other favourite is the coworker who does the same thing but instead of saying hey types “Pssst” and if you don’t respond within about 5 seconds they start sending GIFS of people knocking on doors and stuff.
I’ve thankfully never experienced that last one, but that is heinous. I would actually engage to tell them not to do that.
The company I work for has a general guideline/policy to “don’t ask to ask.” I thankfully rarely experience this.
I refuse to play that game. People learn; either to message correctly or to leave me alone.
I will obviously start by saying Hi, but I will also just say what I’m contacting them about in the first message.
I got in trouble at work for being “unavailable” for 3 days while my coworkers were working on something important without me because I never responded to the one word message “Hey”.
LMAO. I thought I was the only one quietly enraged by this…
Can I ask you a question?
You get one a day, try again tomorrow
Apparently.
I work in municipal government and had a enginee4ing consultant Teams me a comment about a developer being a bumbass while I was screen-sharing to a live public meeting that involved that developer.
Please give me the “hey”
Don’t ever share your main desktop. Share individual windows or a secondary monitor.
I think you can hide message previews now, but dang lol.
I always have mine set to “do not disturb when screen sharing” and it works flawlessly for internal meetings. As soon as I have an external meeting though… I have to manually enable the do not disturb when joining a meeting set up by someone outside my company.
Need to look into disabling the previews, that should hopefully fix it
Hi!
…?
Proper format:
Hola,
X is Y and we need Z. Did you fuck with the server?
…new server, who dis??
You wouldn’t write a letter that’s just “Hi <name>” and then no body. You’d have the greeting, the content, and the signoff. The same applies to Slack, Teams, and the like. You can omit the greeting & signoff or keep them in, but you can’t omit the content!
If you do, I’ll wait until the next day or so, and if I remember I’ll reply that they seem to have forgotten to include a message before hitting “send”.
The same morons also say hi to ChatGPT. They can’t help it.
If I was trying to use ChatGPT I would say “hi” before explaining my whole deal for five minutes because I don’t want to hear “API Limit Exceeded, Buy More ChatGPT”.
Of course, I would never.
If they’re just making a request, why not put it in an email instead of chatting with you?
Not really Instant Message necessary at all.
I just ignore it.
Me too, but some fraction of the total damage still comes through.
