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The real question is why Tim waits 4 minutes to reply to the "Hello!", but instantly replies to "Hello! <question>". What a selfrighteous jackass. Seriously th

by efdee 5y ago

The real question is why Tim waits 4 minutes to reply to the "Hello!", but instantly replies to "Hello! <question>". What a selfrighteous jackass. Seriously though - as someone who's a 20-year resident in technical channels, who's had to deal with plenty of "Hello!"'s - this website comes off as incredibly condescending and very stereotypical for people working in an IT department.

unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> this website comes off as incredibly condescending and very stereotypical for people working in an IT department. It really does. I mean I get that people have different needs and work styles and I definitely find interruptions difficult at some points, but this might have swung the pendulum a wee bit too far -- precisely because other people have different needs and work styles.
chc 5y ago
The real question to me is why you expect somebody to drop everything and reply to "hello." It's not about being righteous, it's just not a productive use of your time. If I'm not busy, I'll reply quickly, but if I'm in the middle of something, chit-chatting with somebody who just wants to say hi is usually lower priority.
- efdee 5y ago
  This is exactly what I mean. Nobody expects you to drop anything. They want to see if you're there, and if you're not, they'll look for someone else to help them instead of asking you a question that might not be answered until long after they already received an answer from someone else. If you don't want to interrupt your work and reply, then don't. Don't be rude and expect people to read a manual about how to interact with you.
  - chc 5y ago
    The question you asked is: > why Tim waits 4 minutes to reply to the "Hello!", but instantly replies to "Hello! <question>". What a selfrighteous jackass. As far as I can tell, this question only makes sense if you expect him to treat both messages with equal priority, and believe failure to do so makes one a jackass. If you agree that it's reasonable to treat "pings" with lower priority than concrete questions, then it seems pretty easy to imagine why Tim waited 4 minutes to reply to "Hello" but instantly replied to a question.
    - efdee 5y ago
      But that part was meant tongue-in-cheek as documented by the next sentence starting with "But seriously".

by efdee 5y ago

unfocussed_mike 5y ago

> this website comes off as incredibly condescending and very stereotypical for people working in an IT department. It really does. I mean I get that people have different needs and work styles and I definitely find interruptions difficult at some points, but this might have swung the pendulum a wee bit too far -- precisely because other people have different needs and work styles.

chc 5y ago

The real question to me is why you expect somebody to drop everything and reply to "hello." It's not about being righteous, it's just not a productive use of your time. If I'm not busy, I'll reply quickly, but if I'm in the middle of something, chit-chatting with somebody who just wants to say hi is usually lower priority.

efdee 5y ago
This is exactly what I mean. Nobody expects you to drop anything. They want to see if you're there, and if you're not, they'll look for someone else to help them instead of asking you a question that might not be answered until long after they already received an answer from someone else. If you don't want to interrupt your work and reply, then don't. Don't be rude and expect people to read a manual about how to interact with you.
- chc 5y ago
  The question you asked is: > why Tim waits 4 minutes to reply to the "Hello!", but instantly replies to "Hello! <question>". What a selfrighteous jackass. As far as I can tell, this question only makes sense if you expect him to treat both messages with equal priority, and believe failure to do so makes one a jackass. If you agree that it's reasonable to treat "pings" with lower priority than concrete questions, then it seems pretty easy to imagine why Tim waited 4 minutes to reply to "Hello" but instantly replied to a question.
  - efdee 5y ago
    But that part was meant tongue-in-cheek as documented by the next sentence starting with "But seriously".