Teams messages: Hi

Huh? Get with the times and teach yourself and your team to use Teams properly.

YANBU. It's infuriating (although I'm tolerant of people doing the several messages thing because I have the noise turned off on my computer, like an adult ). Also because I do it myself.
It's a work chat, not MSN chat anno 2001.

What bothers me is that because its 'instant' messaging, people expect an instant response. Once upon a time they would've sent an email and waited for a few hours, now they expect you to jump to it regardless of what else your working on.

I ignore hi messages. 😳

I can remember when a young colleague of mine phoned an older client and said "Hello Mr Client, it's Joe Bloggs here, how are you today?" to which the client responded "Never you mind about my health, sonny, what do you want?" 😀

@Ultravox HATE this, what a waste of time. Like some have said, why not just put it all in one message e.g. Hi, how are you? Would you mind sending the spreadsheet....

Some young people do this with text messages too, some even do a return for each sentence with messages pinging incessantly. So frustrating!

Christ I wouldn’t even bother responding to a message that said Hi.

My ex boss would do this too

Boss: Hello

Me: Please state your request

He soon got the message 🤣

I just don’t open the chat until they’ve typed something else. If they don’t, I just leave it unread until the next day and don’t respond back anyway. I’ve accidentally done it myself but people can see me typing so hopefully they know it was an accident.

In a similar vein… My old manager used to be the worst for sending “Hi, have you got 2 minutes?”. I don’t miss that feeling of dread. She could be asking for a favour, she could be furious because she’s got the wrong end of the stick from a random person elsewhere. You never really knew what it was about or what mood she was in. My new manager always says “Hi, do you have time to talk about X?” or if it’s completely out of the blue, she tells me why she needs to talk to me about it eg. She’s doing a report or someone’s asked her a question in a meeting

This

It’s especially annoying when you get 5 separate messages when you are on another call. The pings are insanely distracting (yes, I know I can turn them off, but then I miss things that I want to see). I do think it is a cultural thing though. There is one particular country that I work with and all of the colleagues there do it. I once asked someone not to and they said they felt it was rude to launch straight into the request without some polite messages first. Unfortunately, this country is on a very different time zone to me, so I get a lot of pre-7am pings that just say “Hi Socks”. It fills me with irrational rage.

When they say hi, just reply: 'Hi, how can I help you?'

Sorted.

I just don’t reply. They either figure out what it was they were going to ask you, or they type what they need after 5 mins of silence.
My reply is then: Hi, good thanks, busy! [Answer] - shout if you need anything else.
done.

It is unproductive. As they could have sent one message, saying: 'hi Kbroughton, hope you are having a fun day. Region have asked for the XY3 metrics by 4, painful. Let me know if that is going to be a problem.

Rather than.

Hi Kbroughton,
Me: Hi
time. time time.

How are you>
Me: good thanks, how are you
time time time

Good thanks.
time time time

sorry to ask but Region have asked for the XY3 metrics by 4

How is that not unproductive? As an ADHDer i take immediate action to things. so if I am sent a message i respond. Quite often this Hi messages can span hours, and me being me, I am waiting for that message,

And you will see that the vast amount of people equally find it challenging. As a fellow ADHDer it is unusual to do the hi thing because we tend to be quick quick quick but we are all different.

If they are presenting they should be on DND so messages don't pop up on their screen

You do know you can set your notifications to private so that the content of a message doesn't appear when you're screen-sharing?

Really? Just hi?! Not “Hi, have you got a minute” or “can I run something by you?” So strange to me 🤣

But it wasn't unproductive, it was a couple of attempts at small talk and then they jumped straight into the purpose of the original message.

I also have ADHD and I can work myself up in knots because I struggle with getting the right tone when mixing personal and business. I'd be really upset if my attempts to get it right got torn apart on Mumsnet.

I am the straight forward type. need something, ask for it..politely ofcourse (because I am a woman and have been trained not to demand things), no time for chit chat. Hate it.

I’ve had this with my boss, I just said “Hi, I’m going on lunch but I’ll be back at 1.30 if you need me”

Oh I hate it SO MUCH. Fine to do the social niceties but do it in the same message!

I manage a big team and the work we do is very confidential. We’re often presenting from our laptops/sharing screens on Teams so we always start a conversation with “Hi” to give the recipient a chance to indicate that now’s not a good time to launch straight into a work-related discussion as their messages may be visible to an audience.

Yes! Do we have the same boss 🤣

Even worse when someone messages Hi and then disappears for ages and I'm left hanging wondering whether to crack on with my lunch break 🙃

When my boss wants a favour, he starts his message with a solitary hi