content/blog/2024-01-08-dont-say-hello.org

 1#+date:        <2024-01-08 Mon 00:00:00>
 2#+title:       Communication Efficiency: Guidelines to Omit Unnecessary Greetings
 3#+description: Technical recommendations for improving professional communication by eliminating non-essential introductory phrases to enhance message clarity.
 4#+slug:        dont-say-hello
 5#+filetags:    :communication:efficiency:professional:
 6
 7I recently came back from a winter break and have started working again... only
 8to immediately run into the dilemma of people sending me cliffhanger messages
 9again.
10
11* No Hello
12
13A year or two ago, I discovered [[https://nohello.net/en/][no hello]] and have thought about it often since
14then. I've even sent it to a few people since then (who wouldn't take offense to
15it).
16
17I work in a fast-paced environment where efficiency is extremely valuable.
18Therefore, I have always held a deep displeasure for conversations where people
19start with "Hello" and then.
20
21I searched back through my work messages and found that I received ~50 messages
22from ~10 people last year from people that contained "hi", "hey", or "hello" and
23did not contain any indication of the purpose of the conversation. I also
24noticed that a few of the users were responsible for the large majority of the
25cliffhangers.
26
27There's no real point to this post, just a desparate request for people to
28please stop doing this.