Screw that. I just wait for 10 minutes before I engage in that chat (wishing I could turn off notifications for individual people in Slack), let the person say

Screw that. I just wait for 10 minutes before I engage in that chat (wishing I could turn off notifications for individual people in Slack), let the person say "Hi spurgu", followed by "Hope you are doing well" (and whatever else they come up with), after which they finally type out what they actually wanted to say. When they're done going through this horribly inefficient, annoying and time-wasting procedure I just directly respond to their question, without any added social bs. Then again I come from Finland.