Timeline for How to gently enforce "nohello" to a coworker?
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| S Sep 15, 2018 at 13:10 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)>). [(its = possessive, it's = "it is" or "it has". See for example <http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Its-and-It%27s>.)
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| Sep 14, 2018 at 6:46 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @thatgirldm If you're engaging in 10+ of smalltalk that's an entirely different issue to someone saying hello. You only asked here about saying hello, so don't bring that other problem into it. | |
| Sep 13, 2018 at 14:30 | comment | added | Aaron F | @thatgirldm are your co-worker's questions task-related? Eg. could they be added to the tasks as comments, which you would receive via email, and could then respond to at your leisure? Or are they completely unrelated, can't be easily categorised, and are therefore sent via Slack? I think you could make the argument, if you wanted, that any request for work you receive *must* be ticketed, and the reason you could give for that is to point to the average of 15 minutes downtime you have for requests; time that isn't logged anywhere, and therefore makes you appear less productive than you are. | |
| Sep 13, 2018 at 14:21 | comment | added | Aaron F | @bharal why not? They sound capable enough. OpenProject is free, so the only cost is the staff set-up time. And rational arguments are easy to come by, should you need one (make a sentence using the words "productivity" and/or "money-saving"). The easiest way, I've found, is to just go ahead and do what you want to do. Set up that system and start using it yourself. If you're right, then the results will speak for themselves and you'll have "shown initiative". If you're wrong, then you'll be in big trouble for wasting time. (Never be wrong) ;-) | |
| Sep 13, 2018 at 14:20 | comment | added | thatgirldm | A ticketing system won't solve the issue - we have one, but it's for tasks. My workplace uses Slack for non-task questions, such as "how do I X?" or "are you the right person to help with Y?" My chatty coworker's questions are valid questions, not tasks - the issue is that she wants to engage in empty pleasantries that take 10-15 minutes to complete before getting to her question. | |
| Sep 13, 2018 at 12:56 | comment | added | bharal | @AaronF i don't think OP can just "get" and make someone else use a ticket system. those things cost money, and a good, rational argument for a ticket system definitely isn't "because i don't like small talk" | |
| Sep 13, 2018 at 11:58 | comment | added | Erik | Because a ticketing system isn't an alternative for asking a question over a chat system. | |
| Sep 13, 2018 at 9:49 | comment | added | Aaron F | not sure why this got a downvote, it's a perfectly reasonable answer | |
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| Sep 13, 2018 at 6:43 | history | answered | user10399 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |