Hi = wave

At work, there are people who ping others with just a “hi”, and wait for them to respond before asking their question. I can’t remember whether I have written about this before, but I always feel that it is a waste of time…it takes an extra exchange to get to the actual message!

Then Google Chat (which we are using at work) added reactions to messages. So when someone pings me with only a "hi", I am always tempted to just respond with a "wave" reaction. But that would not give them a message notification, and they wouldn’t know that I have “responded” until they come back and check our chat. So it’s not a good thing to do…

However, the other day someone pinged me at night with just a “hi”. This one I can understand… he was in a different time zone, and on that day I had been doing some night work to support that time zone. So it was to check whether I was still there or whether I had logged off for the night, in which case, further messages would likely be unnecessary.

As it was, I had logged off and only saw the message in the morning. This time, I decided it wouldn't be too bad to respond with only a wave, since they wouldn’t be waiting for my response anyway. But I didn't want them to think that I sent the wave right after they sent their message, so...

"Sleep" -> "sunrise" -> "wave"

Clear enough? :P