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TechNews @radiation.party [HN] Please don't say just hello in chat

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This made me realize, talking to people is like forcefully inserting you thoughts into their brain without their consent. People should just stop talking in general IMO.

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- Hello
  
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  Username absolutely does not check out.
  
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- Maybe, but our heads don't need all that space to themselves. Room for 1.25
  
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I also dislike the “hey how are you?”. I understand they want to be friendly, but it only adds another step in the conversational exchange.

“Hey how are you?”

“I’m fine. You?”

“All good”

“Cool”

“[the actual request]”

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- I think it's fine, if done with the nohello approach:
  
  Hey , how are you/had a nice weekend? I could use some help with ticket #12345 as I need to do ... and don't know how to do ....
  
  But otherwise - yeah, you're now right at the end of my to do list.
  
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  That's the way it should be done
  
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- 56k noises
  
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- Same here too, so I just cut to the chase as soon as I answer.
  
  "I'm doing fine, how can I help?"
  
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A great one alongside https://dontasktoask.com/

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People actually do this!?

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- Yeah, I thinks it's partly a cultural thing. I've seen more indian colleagues do this than anyone else.
  
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  It's definitely more common with my Indian colleagues.
  
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- I’ve dealt with a few of those at work. Super annoying and just wastes everybody’s time.
  
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- Oh, they do..
  
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- Hey, are you there?
  
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  Hello
  
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  That instantly triggers a delay till after the top of the hour for me.
  
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- My boss does this all the time. It's incredibly annoying.
  
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My solution is to do it all in one line:

Good afternoon. I’m just letting you know our meeting was rescheduled to tomorrow. Have a nice day!

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- Yes, this is exactly how it should be done. You're leaving room for polite convo but also not needlessly adding a few extra steps in the chat
  
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"Hi, can I ask a question?"

No, don't ask to ask a question.

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- Somebody message me something along those lines a few weeks ago.
  
  Them: Them can I as a question?
  
  Me: If you must
  
  Anyway, they complained to HR and they had a word with me. Stupid people. If you're going to be an international company and put your IT department in the UK, prepare for snark.
  
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I prefer no meta.

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Well, I usually take my time to reply. It's not my fault, when people then need to wait until they cut to the chase. That doesn't bother me. It's their problem.

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- I have done this before.
  
  "Hi chunkystyles, good afternoon."
  
  Sometimes I'll wait for a few minutes to see if they follow up and then respond. Sometimes I just don't respond until they cut to the chase if it's not someone I talk to regularly.
  
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  Minutes? It happens that I don't respond for hours or sometimes even days. (Depending on how close we are.) :D
  
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There’s also https://onlyhello.net/

And https://yeshello.org/

And I think I recalled “hello considered harmful” and meta stuff like “considered harmful considered harmful”. Or were those on intranet?

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- I would tell her, but in a nice way.
  
  I feel like a lot of people map chat to talking on the phone when it isn't. I've had to tell several staff to just get on with it and not wait for a response before getting into the reason why we are talking. Often times, they think they are being polite even though they are being rude
  
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- I have one colleague who does it and they work in HR. No one else does that shit.
  
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Hello...

This is a hello message.

Feel Helloed

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Life is easier if you don't get worked up about this sort of thing.

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When people at work have this as their status I just randomly say hello to them. When they get mad I tell them I just I wanted to say hi.

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Last week:

"Hi Neocamel, it's Tom from work."

~no follow-up message~

Me, 15 minutes later: "Hi!"

The end.

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XD

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Um, hello? What's with no hello?

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Damn, talk about antisocial and weird.

What if I just want to say hi to start a conversation, and I don't have some ulterior motive? Or perhaps I'm waiting to gauge the other person's mood or something else before asking them something?

What a weird, weird thing for this person to get a stick up their arse about. I'm sure they're really fun to talk to :-/

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- It's a written message, not a conversation. State what you want clearly, don't force other prople to ask you what you want.
  
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- Yeah but it's work isn't it. It's not bloody social setting.
  
  If you want to talk to me in a social way use the chat that is obviously for that purpose, you can tell because it's full of gifs of the Office and Barbe and the manager isn't in it.
  
  I probably won't respond straight away because it's on mute, I check it, but it's on mute.
  
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