I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
If you message me saying ‘hello’ or ‘hi’ or something similar, and then follow up with a message about what you want without waiting for me to acknowledge the first message, I actually prefer that to having it all as one message or just jumping straight to the request. The initial message lets me know something further is coming, which actually helps me a bit to refocus from what I’m working on so I can actually respond to the request.
On the other hand sending a greeting message and then treating the chat like it should be synchronous ticks me off to no end, unless the intent is to initiate a general social conversation instead of something work related (but if that’s you’re intent, don’t just randomly say ‘hi’, say something like ‘Hey, could we chat a bit when you get a moment?’).
Thanks for the nuanced thoughts! I understand where you're coming from. I think I'd personally prefer to receive (and would always send) the first scenario as a single message though. Good to get another point of view :)
I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
Agreed, and I can understand most people preferring it as a single message. In my case though, it takes me a nontrivial amount of time to switch focus from what I’m working on to respond to questions and requests from colleagues, so I much prefer that heads up so I can hopefully respond more quickly when they send the actual question or request.
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I’m in a kind of strange middle ground.
If you message me saying ‘hello’ or ‘hi’ or something similar, and then follow up with a message about what you want without waiting for me to acknowledge the first message, I actually prefer that to having it all as one message or just jumping straight to the request. The initial message lets me know something further is coming, which actually helps me a bit to refocus from what I’m working on so I can actually respond to the request.
On the other hand sending a greeting message and then treating the chat like it should be synchronous ticks me off to no end, unless the intent is to initiate a general social conversation instead of something work related (but if that’s you’re intent, don’t just randomly say ‘hi’, say something like ‘Hey, could we chat a bit when you get a moment?’).
Thanks for the nuanced thoughts! I understand where you're coming from. I think I'd personally prefer to receive (and would always send) the first scenario as a single message though. Good to get another point of view :)
Agreed, and I can understand most people preferring it as a single message. In my case though, it takes me a nontrivial amount of time to switch focus from what I’m working on to respond to questions and requests from colleagues, so I much prefer that heads up so I can hopefully respond more quickly when they send the actual question or request.