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.
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LMAO. I thought I was the only one quietly enraged by this...
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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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
Oh I hate the people who open a ticket, provide basically no information at all, mark it urgent, and then when I call back within 15 minutes they don't answer. So I leave a voicemail, and they literally never call back.
I have one in my queue right now and the entirety of the ticket is simply "my outlook details are incorrect", I have absolutely no idea what she wants, if she doesn't answer tomorrow that ticket's getting closed.
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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.
I think what the OP is thinking of is an ancient technology called "e-Mail".
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Guilty as charged :(
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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You wouldn't write a letter that's just "Hi " 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".