Those direct chat messages containing just:

Can you help me?

Good morning

Hi

My boss won’t answer me unless I wrote him a good morning and asked how he is feeling.

@petergriffin oh wow! Courtesy is nice but sometimes there are emergencies.. in which case I'd say good morning and then briefly explain the issue

I wouldn't send just a "Hi" to trick someone into replying because that's all these messages are.. the idea that if I reply to their hi, then I must be available to sort their (usually) trivial issue and jumping the ticket queue

Can you do me a favor?

@petergriffin what a dick

@petergriffin sounds like a good reason to say, "I'm thinking about leaving for another position"

I stopped responding to them unless we're friends.

Don't waste my time, tell me what the fuck you want.

I was tempted to send them an email reply back that just said, "hi". That'd be to passive aggressive though

@sariel call them, say hi, and close the call

You should appreciate these messages!

I know they suck but it might be people's attempt at checking if you're busy.

The other alternative would be that you got direct messages like "We've got a problem with X" and it sounds like it's urgent.

If you get a "good morning" first you know it's not super urgent

@jiraTicket hey, good morning!

@jiraTicket it's the shittiest attempt at checking you're busy. Better is to explain something right away to give context to how long it can take so that the recipient could plan the interaction

@electrineer savage xD
I'll try it

I have this as my teams status

https://nohello.net/