“After careful consideration of your proposal, I will not be attending lunch with you last Friday.”
This is one of several reasons I eventually ditched Facebook… People would text me a bunch of bullshit drama on FB messenger while I was at work and couldn’t stop to look at it, then start sending me more messages asking why I wasn’t responding lol
I would hate to be a teenager in this day and age. The amount of drama that gets started over shit like you’re talking about is insane.
As shitty as Facebook is, Snapchat takes that and dials it up to an 11.
I have it on good info from my 16 year old that it is completely unacceptable to:
- Leave a snap (message) unopened for any major length of time. How long is highly subjective.
- Open a snap and not respond.
- Group chat.
- Send a normal message that doesn’t include a cringy photo of half your face.
Kids actually get upset over this stuff.
I’m just like, “I have a phone number. You can call or text it. If I feel like talking to you I’ll answer. If that’s a problem for you, too damn bad.”
What the hell is in those e-mails that requires 2 days of pondering?
Requests for available meeting times. I figure if I drag my feet on scheduling a meeting someone urgently wants to have they’ll eventually just email the fucking questions and save us both 90 minutes of pointless bullshit.
I actually made an online meeting request process with a minimum 2-week turnaround just to make scheduling meetings with my department annoying. I only have so much time, and if I honored all requests I’d be spending 60+ hours a week in meetings and none actually doing my job.
In a project manager. Meetings are my job. If I made my customers wait two weeks to schedule a meeting, I’d be fired. Two weeks to hold it? Maybe. Two weeks to schedule? No.
Could you perhaps cut down on the number of meetings you have? I’ve found that 99% of meetings I get invited to could usually have been an email or a slack message, but then people just want to waste time talking to make it look like they’re doing stuff instead of actually just doing stuff.
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“Would you please send me that report we talked about? And also let me know which time period you would travel back to if you had a time machine and could only use it once?”
I’d go back to 2019 and marry my wife again 🥰
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And also let me know which time period you would travel back to if you had a time machine and could only use it once?”
I mean, is there any valid answer aside from the '90s? '80s were cool but still too backwards, plus you still got the cool stuff from then in the later decade, anything before is “I don’t want to die of a minor sickness” territory.
This seems really pompous and self important to me. Most people know to not expect an immediate response. I know it’s a joke but to say “it will take me 4 days to acknowledge you” is strange.
They gotta have time to watch that 12 hours of tiktok before the respond.
Maybe the answer is to have a proper inbox tray. The business doesn’t really understand that we (as in software developers) don’t even know that email exists. We’re not colour coding everything that comes in and cleaning them up when they’re processed, and we will not see your email amid all the auto-generated crap.
Must be a geologist.
I initially majored in Geology and I can certainly Identify with this sentiment.
Sediment was right there…
Yeah, well maybe that’s why I didn’t finish the degree.
Being able to prioritize what needs to be done now and what could take 4 days, and what can simply not be done is an art.
Both on the sender and de receiver.
As any email address will eventually become unusable due to spam… An email is a very ineffective way to communicate. Eventually every address becomes abandoned
I hate emails. If you aren’t using instant messaging for fast communications you are too old to be working in tech.
Need something fast? Slack, teams, whatever crap else is out there.
Want me to sleep on it for 2-3 days? Email.
My work email is so full of crap from internal company emails.
If you aren’t using instant messaging for fast communications you are too old to be working in tech.
The meme is about this exact mentality. Fuck instant messaging.
And good luck searching teams, slack, whatever crap that is out there after 6 weeks or so. Or after parent company rebrands/migrates it to something else.
E-mail is the best modern day communication platform. It’s agnostic about your OS, client, or service provider. It’s not a fucking walled garden where both parties need to have exact same setup to communicate. I can have Thunderbird client working with Gmail and I can send and receive e-mails from people who use neither.
You’re just clueless about using it.
Yeah count me among the “too old” crowd because I like email. If I haven’t met you in person and personally given you my phone number, I don’t want you texting me. Ever. For any reason. At any time. If a company texts me, I think less of them and will search for an alternative the next time. 98% of the time I get a phone call I let it go to voicemail.
If you want me to see something, email it. With smartphones it takes a literally identical amount of effort to read an email as it does to read a text, with the added benefits that email was designed to send more than 12 characters at a time, can be searched, and can have attachments added to it.
It’s also extremely easy to keep your inbox from overflowing with crap. Just don’t sign up for the crap in the first place, and when you get an unsolicited email, unsubscribe and/or mark as spam. That does require the bare minimum of computer literacy, which appears to have died out. In a few years the technologically illiterate will say they don’t read their texts anymore since they’re overflowing with spam that they can’t be arsed to avoid signing up for.
I’m not going to IM someone outside my organization with Teams. F that. Read the freaking e-mail and reply. If you don’t answer timely, and I need an answer, I’ll call if possible, otherwise escalate.
Teams doesn’t work for outside your organization.
It does
Exactly. My work email is like 95% BS corporate emails, and I just don’t check it anymore. I felt bad for the first few months, but there were zero repercussions because actual communication happens on Slack or we mention it in team meetings. Email exists to be searched or to be referenced in another chat system (e.g. hey, I sent you an email with those attachments, forward it as needed).
My work email is like 95% BS corporate emails,
Skill issue.
Make rules and folders lmao.
Why? I could spend my time doing that, or I could just do my job. I almost never need to actually look at my work email for my job, so why bother?
Ok zoomer
I felt bad as well but I don’t anymore. At this point if you want a prompt response and you choose email that’s on you. Specially if we’re 10-20 steps from each other in the office.
Exactly. We work in-office 2x/week, and we’re an open plan office. If it can wait a couple days, I’ll be in anyway, so why send an email?
We have Slack channels for announcements for various groups, and in-person for anything that needs a response right now. Email is almost never the right medium.
