Do some geek shit and automatically reply with https://www.nohello.com/ if they lead with a greeting and a pause for dramatic effect. I usually just wait for them to continue with what they actually need which solves the issue one way or another.
I wish my company could require that everyone read that page as training. Though, I do use this to tell who’s smarter/productive than others.
You can set a default status message in Teams that gets displayed right when someone tries to message you. That link is in mine. It doesn’t work for everyone, but for most.
This is so perfectly passive aggressive to me that I plan to set it up today. Genius.
https://nohello.net/ is the updated version
Omfg, why don’t people use multiple lines to formulate their statement?
I have to hear 10 pings before they are even midway through what they are saying.
Edit: to clarify - it’s not the pings (or any anger or annoyance toward those generally, it’s the purposeless emptiness of them, looking at then individually), it’s the short messages that I read and then have to wait for the next several to even get the picture (and in between returning to whatever I was working on before, several times).
I thought I was the only one being driven mad by this! It’s even better when the messages are all short so you hear multiple pings in rapid succession
Muscle memory from when people get annoyed that I’m “taking too long”
Sometimes it’s appropriate to do many small messages as you’re writing up the full thing, other times it’s better to wall of text. It depends on the person and context imo
Also, just put your phone on vibrate or something, Jesus. Such a petty thing to care about.
It’s up there with caring about the color of your text bubble.
I have it muted, bit still get bubbles on my PC - it’s the fact that I get to read those bubbles & then have time to get back up my work two or three times before they get to their question or whatever.
How many times you get distracted during your work is important to basically all people, it’s just how our brain work (and how much the chemicals of managing such switches get to you in the long run).
Lol, I know, I’m not bothered by them as such.
And I also want to respond to most people promptly.
But not sending a sensible coherent message as one message is just basic etiquette. One could choose to send emails (or even physical mail) line-by-line too, each line in a separate message.
Or even here - this reply could have been posted in 6 parts.
Answer “hi” back, my job here is done, and ignore until next task I’m working on is complete. You’re on my schedule now buddy. Bonus points for answering out of their time zone’s working hours to see if the next day they start with Hey again.
I never thought of that last part but I like it lol. I have a lot of international people who do this most and it would be perfect. Though some of them seem to wake up while I’m on, so this might backfire on me one day.
I currently just ignore these messages. Some never take the hint and keep trying.
Unless it’s my boss or someone I actually need to talk to I ignore them until they state their business. I have no time for rude mfers.
I have https://nohello.net/en/ in my Teams status. People who don’t bother reading it don’t deserve my answer anyway.
I don’t even reply to those.
Tell me what you want or I’m doing other work.
