This is a practically a motto in my org at AWS. During any point in the day, I'm usually: 1.) Doing my actual job 2.) Chatting with a work friend 3.) Helping

This is a practically a motto in my org at AWS. During any point in the day, I'm usually: 1.) Doing my actual job 2.) Chatting with a work friend 3.) Helping 1-3 other engineers with their jobs If you just say 'Hi [name]', you're going right to the bottom of the priority list. I got things to do right now. Just tell me what you need from me so we can get down to business. When things are less busy we can chop it up and chat. But if I don't know you, I'm not going out of my way to see what you want from me. Especially since I got 3-4 other balls I'm juggling at the same time.