People who text you instead of emailing you about work-related questions

[mollywhop]

should be put to death

am I wrong on this

 

[mollywhop]

I have 21 unread texts from the last 18 hours and 90% of them are work related

 

[JacksonWhite]

I get like 3 work related texts a year.

 

[WS6Formula350]

depends

you need a Google Voice # for work shit tho playa

 

[Swiftie]

i can see why they would text you. probably have a month long backlog of emails.

 

[Wolf]

The fucking worst is when they ping you on slack:

Them: Hi, Wolf
Me: Hi
Them: Quick call?
Me: .....
Me: What's up?
Them: I have a question about xyz
Me: Sure, what's the question?
Them: Can we have a call?
Me:

Just type your damn question into the chat!!!!!
For some reason these fuckers ALWAYS want to have calls about shit instead of sending an email or Slack chat. My suspicion is they don't want a written record of the conversation.

 

[kitty]

We get it, you hate your job

 

[JerseyAhole]

you should make a thread about this..

 

[mollywhop]

i can see why they would text you. probably have a month long backlog of emails.

 

[mollywhop]

We get it, you hate your job

it's more my life in general

 

[amill94]

The fucking worst is when they ping you on slack:

Them: Hi, Wolf
Me: Hi
Them: Quick call?
Me: .....
Me: What's up?
Them: I have a question about xyz
Me: Sure, what's the question?
Them: Can we have a call?
Me:

Just type your damn question into the chat!!!!!

This and people who type a question into the subject line of an email without text in the body make me fucking rage.

 

[Ray Wonder]

it's more my life in general

 

[mollywhop]

The fucking worst is when they ping you on slack:

Them: Hi, Wolf
Me: Hi
Them: Quick call?
Me: .....
Me: What's up?
Them: I have a question about xyz
Me: Sure, what's the question?
Them: Can we have a call?
Me:

Just type your damn question into the chat!!!!!
For some reason these fuckers ALWAYS want to have calls about shit instead of sending an email or Slack chat. My suspicion is they don't want a written record of the conversation.

slack fucking sucks

what's worse is having slack, basecamp, smartsheet, etc. and not just a single repository/communication platform

 

[Ron]

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There’s no way 90% of that is actually directed to you

 

[the_antsy_honda]

The fucking worst is when they ping you on slack:

Them: Hi, Wolf
Me: Hi
Them: Quick call?
Me: .....
Me: What's up?
Them: I have a question about xyz
Me: Sure, what's the question?
Them: Can we have a call?
Me:

Just type your damn question into the chat!!!!!
For some reason these fuckers ALWAYS want to have calls about shit instead of sending an email or Slack chat. My suspicion is they don't want a written record of the conversation.

Eh, a lot of times it's easier to have a normal conversation than type shit out. Especially if you're confused about something and not really sure what you're trying to describe.

Like when my mom texts me technical shit, just fuckin call me because you definitely don't know what you're talking about, so let me talk you through it.

 

[Wolf]

This and people who type a question into the subject line of an email without text in the body make me fucking rage.

Or even when they raise a JIRA ticket:

Subject: Deployment not working
Description: Our application deployment is failing for the past 3 days, please assist.

Doesn't include the name of the application, doesn't include a link to the deployment logs, doesn't even include the error message that the job is failing with.
Just "our application".

I swear to god, everyone should be required to work help desk for a year so they understand what it's like to work from customer tickets and experience the frustration of getting a ticket with no details provided.

 

[mollywhop]

There’s no way 90% of that is actually directed to you

a good bit of it is automated messages (from basecamp for example when there is a discussion going on about a particular project) and maybe 10-15% are group e-mails but I get an obscene amount of email a day that requires individual responses, it's rough dude

 

[Swiftie]

Or even when they raise a JIRA ticket:

Subject: Deployment not working
Description: Our application deployment is failing for the past 3 days, please assist.

Doesn't include the name of the application, doesn't include a link to the deployment logs, doesn't even include the error message that the job is failing with.
Just "our application".

I swear to god, everyone should be required to work help desk for a year so they understand what it's like to work from customer tickets and experience the frustration of getting a ticket with no details provided.

It's almost as if the end user has nearly no technical expertise

 

[NiggaPHX420]

should be put to death

am I wrong on this

I have 21 unread texts from the last 18 hours and 90% of them are work related

You are not wrong. Tell them to fuck off.

 

[Wolf]

It's almost as if the end user has nearly no technical expertise

Theyre fucking software developers!!!!!

 

[mollywhop]

I get like 3 work related texts a year.

are those from the walmart HR department reminding you to clock in

 

[mollywhop]

haha fuckin got em

 

[Swiftie]

Theyre fucking software developers!!!!!

 

[vtec1994]

Or, why are you texting me when we use Slack/Teams/Skype/etc?

 

[mollywhop]

Or, why are you texting me when we use Slack/Teams/Skype/etc?

To be fair I pretty much ignore all of those as well