Hey.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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I will obviously start by saying Hi, but I will also just say what I’m contacting them about in the first message.
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I'm sitting in the hospital with my mother and someone does this to me....
Just Hi...
Spent too long staring at it trying to decide if they deserved the effort to tell them I can't help them right now....
Decided if they couldn't say what they want, I wasnt going to tell them it's not going to happen.
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LMAO. I thought I was the only one quietly enraged by this...
I don't reply to that. Tell me what you want and I might reply.
The last time it happened to me I replied, but I waited until the end of the next day and shut down my laptop and put my phone away immediately after clicking send.
Hi, how are you?
Oh shit, this is going to be painful.
Respond with a gif of someone doing a blank stare
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
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I think what the OP is thinking of is an ancient technology called "e-Mail".
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I have written in a previous job messages, but it usually went like this:
Hello, [Name]! Hope you're not too busy! I have questions regarding [whatever the fuck it was on about]
Mostly because I hate getting a message and it is just a wall of text, the greeting allows for a slight breathing room and a chance to spot a typo.
But I never left the other hanging, more than a minute to type the needed thing up. If it was taking longer, I would just send it in chunks.
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This is a hill I will die on with you. I've even sent the "no hello" link to a particularly egregious offender.
Im guilty of this. I hate wasting the time to type it up if the person isnt going to reply. I'll ping them, when they respond, then open a dialogue.
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Do you think the people that send junk like "hi" or "quick chat?" get annoyed when they're the recipient? Or they just think it's normal?
They are the 80% that do 20% of the labor.
They're quite content sitting around staring mindlessly at their monitor.
It's a handshake. If you're out of the office or otherwise can't respond, it saves them from typing the whole message, they can do it only if they know you're responding.
It's still offloading the inconvenience to you a bit, but at least it's rational for them
Hi
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Guilty as charged :(