I noticed that engineers that are 45+ and at high level (principal+) do not exchange pleasantries on async chat like slack or google chat. Stuff like good morning, good night, thanks, etc. It’s not because they are grumpy or unfriendly, the same people do all of that in the office, but never on chat.
My question is: has anyone else noticed this? Or if you are like this, why? If they think it is a waste of time, should I just stop doing it to them so it’s not so one sided? It is in my nature to be polite and it is always exchanged for anyone who is young engineer or any non-engineer of any age. I would have to deliberately remind myself to not do it for these people who don’t reciprocate, which seems weird. Again, these people are polite irl, just not online.
To clarify: no I am not just saying hi and waiting for response. No one does that lol. It is literally just a short one liner and then straight to the point. It only adds to the convo, and takes literally 2 seconds to type.
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Save your hi hellos and other chit chat for your tinder date.
A lot of people like to get straight to the point. They get asked a lot of questions from a lot of people thru the day. Exchanging peasantries with everyone means thats the only thing they will do all day.
Hi!!!
How are you doing?
How is family?
They should go straight to the point, grab the answer and go away saying thanks. That IMHO is more polite and respectful of others time.
If you say "hope you're doing fine" at least you are allowing me to ignore you. When you ask me how I am doing, that's already a question for me to answer in addition to the actual question.
On the other hand, if "hi, how are you?" is your entire message, then fuck you.