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I'm actually quite the opposite. I usually have my phone off or silenced when I'm in the middle of working. That being said, I'll take a break every half an hou
by jhgg 13y ago
I'm actually quite the opposite. I usually have my phone off or silenced when I'm in the middle of working. That being said, I'll take a break every half an hour or so to check up on my e-mail inbox and address the urgent messages.
I also absolutely despise when people text me with "call me asap", "hi", "yo", "hey", or any other meaningless variant. It's vague and I have no idea if what they need is actually important or something that I can address later, without needing to interrupt my workflow. Rather, if you must text me, I much prefer some context and information about issue in the message, i.e: "call me asap, i have a question about ______/i need _______." Really, I prefer an e-mail of a few or more sentences describing what you need.
Above all, I try to avoid the following interaction via text messages:
> Hey
< Sup?
> Nm, do you have a sec?
< Yeah, what do you need?
> I need blah blah blah blah.
Why can't people just do:
> Hey, when you have a sec, I need blah blah blah blah...
This is texting, not TCP.
- stollercyrus 13y agoI agree with your point re: pseudo TCP. I don't like that I feel the need to compulsively check my email. It always takes me longer to respond than it should.
- hnriot 13y agoI don't get the part about needing to check your email as in anyway difficult? My iPhone with the gmail app has a very pleasant tone when I get an email in my priority inbox. I don't have to check anything or be compulsive on any way.
- stollercyrus 13y agoYou must be better at multitasking than me. Those types of interruptions take me out of the zone.
- MasterScrat 13y ago> Hey, when you have a sec, I need blah blah blah blah... Yes please. This even works well when you're working with colleagues in the same office: it's real-time but it doesn't interrupt your thought flow.
- sbov 13y agoI have a coworker who does this but it usually takes them 30 minutes to respond to me, even when I respond to his "hey", even if I respond right away. It drives me insane.