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- internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee
- technews@radiation.party
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I also dislike the “hey how are you?”. I understand they want to be friendly, but it only adds another step in the conversational exchange.
“Hey how are you?”
“I’m fine. You?”
“All good”
“Cool”
“[the actual request]”
I think it’s fine, if done with the nohello approach:
Hey , how are you/had a nice weekend? I could use some help with ticket #12345 as I need to do … and don’t know how to do …
But otherwise - yeah, you’re now right at the end of my to do list.
That’s the way it should be done
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Same here too, so I just cut to the chase as soon as I answer.
“I’m doing fine, how can I help?”
This made me realize, talking to people is like forcefully inserting you thoughts into their brain without their consent. People should just stop talking in general IMO.
Hello
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Maybe, but our heads don’t need all that space to themselves. Room for 1.25
A great one alongside https://dontasktoask.com/
My solution is to do it all in one line:
Good afternoon. I’m just letting you know our meeting was rescheduled to tomorrow. Have a nice day!
Yes, this is exactly how it should be done. You’re leaving room for polite convo but also not needlessly adding a few extra steps in the chat
“Hi, can I ask a question?”
No, don’t ask to ask a question.
Somebody message me something along those lines a few weeks ago.
Them: Them can I as a question?
Me: If you must
Anyway, they complained to HR and they had a word with me. Stupid people. If you’re going to be an international company and put your IT department in the UK, prepare for snark.
People actually do this!?
Yeah, I thinks it’s partly a cultural thing. I’ve seen more indian colleagues do this than anyone else.
It’s definitely more common with my Indian colleagues.
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Oh, they do…
I’ve dealt with a few of those at work. Super annoying and just wastes everybody’s time.
Well, I usually take my time to reply. It’s not my fault, when people then need to wait until they cut to the chase. That doesn’t bother me. It’s their problem.
I have done this before.
“Hi chunkystyles, good afternoon.”
Sometimes I’ll wait for a few minutes to see if they follow up and then respond. Sometimes I just don’t respond until they cut to the chase if it’s not someone I talk to regularly.
Minutes? It happens that I don’t respond for hours or sometimes even days. (Depending on how close we are.) :D
Last week:
“Hi Neocamel, it’s Tom from work.”
~no follow-up message~
Me, 15 minutes later: “Hi!”
The end.
XD
