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.
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.
Then why not just use email? Sounds like you just want an email…
Hello, this is your operator, you have a call from “bobwehadababyitsaboy”
do you accept the charges?
I will obviously start by saying Hi, but I will also just say what I’m contacting them about in the first message.
yeah, i’d like to see us abolish email and turn things into slightly long IM’s.
I’ve been struggling for years to condense several thoughts into a single IM, not to blow up the recipient’s attention.
The company I work for has a general guideline/policy to “don’t ask to ask.” I thankfully rarely experience this.
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”.
LMAO. I thought I was the only one quietly enraged by this…
Hey.
I’ve managed to (for better or worse) make myself fairly irreplaceable at my job and am in a rare position where I can refuse to use anything I choose and there’s no-one who can make me.
Windows and Teams are top of my “Fuck you” list.I feel for the people who don’t have that luxury though.
If I’m feeling nice, I reply to those with " please lead with your question"
If not, I don’t reply.
IT nerd for 20 years. ‘can i ask you a question?’ or voice message saying ‘call me’.
already did, done. I wouldn’t return the call. or answer the phone. I ain’t a help-desk
bofh
bofh: untags the voice vlan, phone still passes data through
