Teams messages: Hi

Oh I hate this too. I now ignore them until they actually say what they are messaging me for.

I've now got "hello" by Lionel Richie in my head.

Easy don’t respond to the initial hi greeting until they say what they wsnt

I’ve received a couple of ‘Hi’ messages.
i just reply ‘Hi’ back and don’t hear from them again for another day or two!
Totally agree with you, so annoying, just cut to the chase!

Just had to reply as you are called @Ultravox. Oh, Lordy Lordy, best band ever! Virtual high five and a wave to you! (Yes the teams small talk is a tedious waste of time, totally agree) Xx

Totally agree 🤣 I always think just get on with it. It’s not like they message to ask me how I am if they haven’t got anything to ask me to do 🤣

I hate It bit not nearly as much as 'Hey'.

Get to the point.

I’ve sent a hi message by mistake on teams because I pressed return button 🫢

I ignore all teams messages that start out “hi”. The sender soon posts a follow up to say what they really want.

Looking at it from the other side, they probably think I’m a miserable bastard, but makes my life easier.

Gosh, you are friends with my oh. Sorry about that. Only he has now moved on to voice notes so you get the

Dave is recording...for ages

Then you have to listen to Dave rambling for 10 min about how he has just found a parking space at tesco and then he was going to do the petrol after the foodshop but before the post office. But then as he pulled up to park the car he thought perhaps he should do the petrol first? And if I need anything I can just phone. And he might call me in 2min to check something.......

It is irritating as f*^+#

I don't respond to the hi messages. So it goes:

Them: Hi

Me:

Them: how are you?

Me:

Them: when you see this could you send....

Me Hi, all good thanks, you? Sure NP here it is.

One of my direct reports does this:
'Hello Healthy
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Hope you're well.
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Whateveritis'

It's bloody painful, and the urge to write "Just fucking spit it out!" is growing stronger every day.

Congratulations on retirement! It sounds like your COVID work life was similar to mine and I agree, it was truly awful. I hope you can enjoy retirement to its fullest and I wish you every happiness!

I don't reply in most cases, if all they say is hi. Fortunately, my colleagues are mostly antisocial IT techies, so they don't bother with faffing about (at least, not in that way.) Most of them just do stuff like, "link to network diagram." Sometimes followed by "oops, with link this time"...

Manager in my previous job used to start with"Hi Bearhug," if he was in a good mood, or "Bearhug." if he was about to give me a bollocking for my latest perceived crime. I left that job after 5 months.

I think on WhatsApp, it's mostly only OLD men who haven't spoken to me for ages who start with "Hi" and no more. Normal people say stuff like, "Hey, fancy a catch up?" or whatever.

Oh god, just… no. So annoying 🤣

I use Teams a lot and very rarely have I just received a 'Hi'. On the odd occasion I have it's been because the person has accidentally hit enter to do a new line and sent the message before they've finished...I know this because they've then said 'sorry pressed to soon' or whatever. I've done this myself maybe a couple of times.

Thinking about it there's one new person from another team who does send me 'Hi' messages though. I've always just ignored them thinking it's the above (and its weird she makes that mistake so often) and she'll write something more shortly. Having read this thread I now know she doesn't write more because I never respond! It's definitely not culture at our place to do it...I wonder if she thinks no one likes her...I feel bad now!

Thanks. Every day's a school day!

Too funny! 🤣

I also hate this. Especially followed by the … for ages. Just say it in one and hurry up ffs.

Most people, by definition, does not include all people.

I don't respond to just a hi, ever, or answer calls from people who just call regardless of what your Teams status is and without checking if you have time to chat first. I work with one person who does the hi thing, I never respond, and then she rarely follows up with another message, so clearly it's not important!

General etiquette in my place is a 'hi X, do you have 5 mins to chat about XYZ please' or 'hi x, hope you had a good weekend (or whatever), can you please do XYZ"

I work on very confidential stuff at times and I can confidently say none of us need to do it that way for that reason.

[Sorry, clarification: I was replying to the earlier poster.]

I presume "hi" messages are to be ignored until the actual message is also on the screen.
Alternatively, I guess I would answer "hi" with "tell me :-)".

My mate does this. He'll send a "Hi"...

then all you see is
David is typing...
David is typing...
David is typing...
David is typing...
David is typing...
David is typing...
David is typing...
David is typing...
David is typing...
David is typing...
... For the next five minutes before he hits enter and says something like "all ok with you?".

TYPE WITH MORE THAN TWO FINGERS DAVID FFS.

When you speak for most people, please don't include me. There's no pass/aggress there at all.

I'm being 100% genuine.

And I still hope you have a lovely weekend 😊

If I’m using teams on my phone I can hit return and it starts a new paragraph, at times I’ve been on the laptop and forgotten it doesn't do that and I’ve sent ‘hi X’ then frantically typed the rest of the message.

But you would see the … if that was the case here. If anyone sent me ‘hi’ I’d ignore it until they got to the point! Maybe I’m rude.