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I honestly do not understand why anyone would just stare at a blank chat window for a minute (or more) instead of switching back to what they were doing (or, in
by ravitation 8y ago
I honestly do not understand why anyone would just stare at a blank chat window for a minute (or more) instead of switching back to what they were doing (or, in most(?) cases, just looking at a different screen).
It's similar one of your sibling comments which compares a chat message to a person walking up and saying "hello"... They are absolutely not equivalent; it's perfectly alright to not immediately respond to every message you get (or even only giving it a bit of your attention), even if they are not emails.
I wonder if this is a generational thing...
- randrews 8y agoWell, because the second you look back to the other window and remember what you were doing, it's just going to ding again with whatever their actual question was.
- ravitation 8y agoI must just be better at multitasking than most... It doesn't really take a lot of my focus to respond to an arbitrary greeting with an equally arbitrary greeting... Certainly not to the point where it's going to take minutes for me to get back to what I was doing.
- gowld 8y agoThat's great if your work doesn't require concentration.
- ravitation 8y agoI certainly don't think devaluing someone's work (especially when you have no idea what it is) is a useful direction to take this conversation. I was essentially conceding that clearly others are not as able to switch contexts easily.