No Hello
No Hello
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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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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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My boss does this all the time. It's incredibly annoying.
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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 I think I recalled “hello considered harmful” and meta stuff like “considered harmful considered harmful”. Or were those on intranet?
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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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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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