Microblog Memes

If anyone says hi to me I literally just ignore them until they say something actionable.

It's great because if they ever complain about it I can just say, oh I was busy so didn't immediately follow up and they never ever specified what they wanted.

I've thankfully never experienced that last one, but that is heinous. I would actually engage to tell them not to do that.

yeah, i'd like to see us abolish email and turn things into slightly long IM's.

I've been struggling for years to condense several thoughts into a single IM, not to blow up the recipient's attention.

I was 100% WFH, for a company in California, long before Covid.

We rented an oceanfront condo for a week from a friend, it was a good deal (they were unbooked so they figured a discount for a known user is better the no booking)

I went down there and worked from the condo from 8-6. Solid internet, attended all meetings. My boss got a case of the ass that I was "taking a vacation" and started trying to hop into support calls before I could so he could write me up for taking a vacation without requesting it.

I literally hit every support message within 30 seconds, he spent his whole day trying to do my job for me. By the end of the day, he had the gall to say I wasn't answering messages quickly enough. I demanded he show me what message he was talking about. Over a whole day of work, there was one message that went unanswered for 45 seconds because I was already working with two separate people. I sent him my chat logs of me working with the other people, and he bitched that I didn't tell them to wait for 45 seconds.

When I quit, he said, "I have to say I didn't see it coming, you were always so dedicated, I'm really sorry to see you go, no chance that I could change your mind? Is it salary?" "nope, I was summoned from some people I used to work for, and they're ready for me"

I hate how dysfunctional so many people are on communication and remote work.

Oh I hate the people who open a ticket, provide basically no information at all, mark it urgent, and then when I call back within 15 minutes they don't answer. So I leave a voicemail, and they literally never call back.

I have one in my queue right now and the entirety of the ticket is simply "my outlook details are incorrect", I have absolutely no idea what she wants, if she doesn't answer tomorrow that ticket's getting closed.

bofh: untags the voice vlan, phone still passes data through

You get one a day, try again tomorrow

Apparently.

I don't know, can you?

I think you can hide message previews now, but dang lol.

Don't ever share your main desktop. Share individual windows or a secondary monitor.

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you could be seen as that person who only talks to ask for a favor (wherever it is real or not).

If you are this way you'll be perceived as such regardless of if you do small talk first. I have a relative that only ever talks to me if they want something and it's fucking annoying to wait for the shoe to drop when they try to chit chat beforehand. Just get to the point if that's all you really care about.

But it can also be badly perceived when you go through the motions of exchanging pleasantries instead of just being up front about needing a favour. In either case, pleasantries are nice, but pleasantries that are being done just for the sake of pleasantries can be seen as rude and trying to establish needless or false familiarity.