• @[email protected]
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    1331 year ago

    100% the very last paragraph. Why do I have to wait for 78 messages to trickle through for one thought?

    • @[email protected]
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      1111 year ago

      To add to that, starting with “hi” and waiting for a reply is a great way to not get a reply from me.

      • Madlaine
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        51 year ago

        It depends.

        My coworkers write me “hi, do you have 5 min?” without telling me what it is because they know I would drop what I’m doing and directly focus on the new task. (It’s how I am, and they know how to deal with it). With a little hi… they give me the option to say “sure, lets talk in 10 min” and finish what I’m doing.

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          51 year ago

          But even “hi do you have 5 minutes” is more than I get from one team. I get “hi” and then they wait for my reply before anything else. If I don’t reply right away, nothing, silence.

    • @Darrell_Winfield
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      I get that, but counterpoint is that you don’t have to react and reply to each message IMMEDIATELY. The time stamps show that the messages all were within 3 minutes of the start. If this even happened at all.

      Maybe it’s because I’m old, but text messages don’t require an immediate reply. Take a breath and be patient.

      • XbSuper
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        111 year ago

        Even if I wait, I still have to listen to multiple notifications instead of just 1. Anyone who does this gets left on read for at least an hour from me (often times I just forget entirely).

      • @Etterra
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        Patience is a skill that nobody sends to bother teaching their kids anymore. They just hand them a pacifier smart phone to shut them up.

        • @Soulg
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          121 year ago

          You sound like someone who rarely interacts with young people