no hello
nohello.net
please don't say just hello in chat
  • @glimse
    12•7 hours ago

    There’s one guy at work who calls unprompted. If I don’t answer, he messages me asking to call him back.

    I don’t call him back anymore. I can’t know if it’s going to be a 5-minute call or a 45-minute call so I assume the latter and I don’t have time for that

    • @[email protected]
      2•7 hours ago

      You can choose to answer the call or not, and the person calling should be okay with that. If they want you to call back they should tell what it’s about.

      But getting mad at people for not asking to call as a blanket response is madness. (I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing, BTW.) Sometimes you can solve things with synchronous communication much faster than you could messaging.

      • @FooBarrington
        3•6 hours ago

        I think straight calling someone on a chat program is rude because it unnecessarily breaks flow. I have to connect my Bluetooth headphones so I can hear you from the start, but that takes a couple seconds. If I’m not quick you’ll stop calling before I’m ready, and it happens frighteningly often that people don’t answer when calling back immediately, so you’ll break my flow a second time.

        Usually, 15-30 seconds are enough for me to mentally “put away” whatever I’m working on, which allows me to quickly resume once we’re done. Often I write a comment describing what my last thoughts were. That can sometimes save a good 5 minutes or more.

        At worst I’ll say “give me 5 minutes” or “if not important, does 14:30 work?”, but that’s because I’m deep in thought and it will take a long time to get back to where I am.

        • @[email protected]
          3•4 hours ago

          Just don’t pick up, finish your thoughts and call back. You are absolutely under no obligation to drop everything to pick it up immediately.

  • @dustyData
    18•11 hours ago

    Same as “don’t ask if you can ask a question, just ask directly”

          • Dragon Rider (drag)English
            0•2 hours ago

            The worst part of the XY problem is that it destroys searchability. If drag googles X and finds a thread where the gurus are answering Y, that’s great for the noob who asked the wrong question, and bad for everyone else. That noob didn’t need X, but someone else will probably need X sooner or later, and now the search results for X are full of Y.

            Worse, if someone who needs X asks for X on stackoverflow, it could be closed as a duplicate, despite the fact that all the answers in the original thread are Y. Now it’s impossible to answer X.

  • LostXOR
    10•10 hours ago

    I’m a member of a Discord server that’s primarily used for support, and this happens way too often. I’ve taken to just reacting with a wave emoji and waiting for them to actually ask for help. Most of the time they’ll just leave some time later, without ever asking a question.

  • @[email protected]
    1•6 hours ago

    I was delighted to see the “don’t be mad at the person who sent you here” link at the bottom was sent to a different and appropriate video in the Spanish version of the site. That’s great localization work.

    Edit: it appears only Spanish and Swedish have unique videos

  • @Bassman1805
    15•13 hours ago

    This was my teams status for a couple years at my old job. I’ll probably end up doing the same at my new job once I’m here long enough for it not to come off as an “overly aggressive new guy” move.

    • @Z3k3English
      3•10 hours ago

      This is how I learned about this site and one of my team has it as his status after I told him about it. Which is kinda annoying as it’s always there in group chats. I have taken to just ignore hi and wait till I get an actual question

  • @CluckN
    1•10 hours ago

    Well by including the hi they have to provide a response rather than put it on hold for a few hours.