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I couldn’t figure out what the clue was that the kid would be a programmer. Surely any kid could have gotten this right? Then I read your comment and it all made sense. Thank you.

And yes, yes I am a programmer.

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How on earth are your colleagues supposed to know this from “hi”?! If there really is an urgent problem, actually say what it is. Why do you expect all your colleagues to deduce that ‘hi’ means “production is currently shut down, please help immediately”?

DON’T just say hi. Say what the problem is. Just saying ‘hi’ shows no respect whatsoever for your colleagues’ time management.

Don’t expect people to make themselves available to you without telling them what for. “I reached out” is a shitty phrase for “I expected them to drop everything but I didn’t explain why or what the problem is and for some reason I’m blaming them for no progress happening. I tried prodding my colleagues silently with literally no information whatsoever and now I’m all out of options. Please can management intervene, because telling my colleagues absolutely nothing about what needs to be done isn’t working - for some reason they’re not doing anything. I act like my urgent work problem is utterly meaningless content-free chit-chat and then get butthurt when people don’t respond to it. Management needs to make sure all my colleagues always drop everything for me instantly on my say so without hesitation or any context because otherwise they’re unhelpful. Please tell my colleagues that ‘hi’ from me means it’s AN EMERGENCY WHICH MUST BE HANDLED IMMEDIATELY.”

Actually, I’m on the loo, so if you mean a second for a yes/no question with no follow up whatsoever, fire away, but if you’re looking for some interactive process, absolutely not, my turd takes priority.

“hi, can I ask an urgent question?” followed by… no question.

“Hi, can you commit an unspecified amount of time to a problem that I’m not prepared to outline in case you don’t think it’s as urgent as I do? Please agree in advance to drop everything for it before knowing what it is.”

No. Absolutely not. Bye bye unopened notification.

This is why it annoys me so much. No, I don’t blanket agree to interact with you. If it’s something short, I’ll answer immediately, but if it’ll take me longer, it’ll be later. Someone I worked with was a monster for this.

Hiya.

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David

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Hello?

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Just say what you want ffs. This could have been over 15 minutes ago if you didn’t insist on real time interaction via this asynchronous communication medium!

And you’re wasting your time and effort spring hairs while ice murders citizens in the street. Of was nazi policy. Now it’s republican policy. Get some perspective, for goodness’ sake!

They quoted a nazi mass murder policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre

https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/one-of-ours-all-of-yours-origins