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A previous HR executive used to open every slack conversation with "yt?" Which stood for "You There?". I never understood why you would say that and nothing els
by alexbanks 6y ago
A previous HR executive used to open every slack conversation with "yt?" Which stood for "You There?". I never understood why you would say that and nothing else, and if the answer was "no", why you wouldn't just say what you were going to say so the person would read it when they WERE there.
- wonder_er 6y agohahaha. yep. A senior executive at my company would sometimes ping me with "got a minute?" And whenever I saw it, I'd always think > I'm about to get a raise or i'm about to get fired When it's HR, or someone where the person sending the message is significantly more powerful than the person receiving it should consider that their "ping" might be interpreted as negatively as possible, unless they specifically indicate that everything is fine. (Turns out the VP was reaching out with some question about how we logged data to a 3rd party tool, not to fire me. :phew:) This was particularly challenging when a meeting would be scheduled. > VP: Hey wonder_er, I just put a meeting on your calendar to chat tomorrow spends 24 hours wondering if I'm going to be fired turns out the call was to say "good work, here's your annual performance bonus".
- alexbanks 6y agoYes. This HR exec was always guilty of putting unmarked calendar invites on people's calendars because she didn't understand/know how to do private/restricted invites. So you'd show up to work and find a 2pm "HR Sync" on your calendar with no description. Really great times.
- csours 6y agoMy team lead pings me with "got a minute?" and I reply with "I'm fired? Sweet Freedom!" We have fun.
- alexeiz 6y ago> A senior executive at my company would sometimes ping me with "got a minute?" OK, this must be it. FROM CUSTOMERS DELETE * Ah, you just wanted to ask a question? Oops.