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I personally refuse to respond when coworkers just send a hello when I know they are just going to ask a question. Waste of everyone's time, and I don't appreci
by Skunkleton 8y ago
I personally refuse to respond when coworkers just send a hello when I know they are just going to ask a question. Waste of everyone's time, and I don't appreciate someone who would never talk to me otherwise pretending to care about me.
- CharlesW 8y ago> Waste of everyone's time, and I don't appreciate someone who would never talk to me otherwise pretending to care about me. That's not what's happening. If there is a selfish reason (generally there's not), it's their handshaking protocol to discover if you're available to answer immediately.
- Skunkleton 8y agoI would guess it is because they haven't thought about what it is they are doing. There is a big difference between "hi" and "hi, do you have a few minutes to answer some questions".
- growse 8y agoI find that my availability to answer immediately depends on a number of things, one of which is the urgency or nature of the question. Usefully, in my experience, nobody opens an IM session where they need my help on a production outage with just 'Hi'. :) (I suspect I'm in a minority, but it's also why I hate answering the phone. An incoming phonecall is just a way for another person to unilaterally decide that they need my attention right now, which is often both disruptive and not true).