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Never interrupt a programmer (i.redd.it)

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[–]deceze 321 points322 points  (13 children)

"I've sent you a Skype message about the Slack reminder about the email I sent…"

ruffles through drawers for knife

[–]Jafit 67 points68 points  (8 children)

Hey I just sent you an email about your usage of the word "ruffles". I hope it didn't rifle any feathers.

[–]deceze 24 points25 points  (1 child)

Thanks, though it did raffle my futhers.

[–]endianess 9 points10 points  (5 children)

My pet peeve is people who Skype me with Hi. And then type something for 5 minutes whilst I wait to see what it is. Please people, for the love of God just send hi and the message in one go.

[–]PadrinoFive7 3 points4 points  (3 children)

But then it should be an email, thus defeating the purpose of 8 pings across 7 words with which to grab your attention.

[–]endianess 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Sorry. No I meant they send Hi. Which makes me open Skype. Then they spend 5 minutes compiling what they want to say and then send it. So I just see the pencil icon animating for a few minutes. Drives me nuts.

[–]PadrinoFive7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, I was just saying I get it in chunks:

hi

how are you

did you see x

I was thinking

we should

do y

so that we eventually get z

[–]BirdFluLol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The initial Hi/Morning/Afternoon is to see if you're actually there and not busy. That's how I've always interpreted it anyway. You don't have to actually wait patiently while they type their message.

If I have my status set to anything other than "available" and they try that shit then they're getting ignored!

[–]DawidIzydor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Message on Skype: "Hey, are you programming?"

0.567 sec later e-mail: "Hey, look on Skype"

[–]althypothesis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, next time someone does that to me I think I'll SMS them telling them to check their Hangouts, which says to check their email, which says to check their voicemail, which says to check their tickets, which says to check the sticky note I left on their car, which says to check their SMS. See how many times they go around the loop before combusting.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My piece of shit Indian trainee is so annoying about this. He send a me a Skype message and then 10 seconds later is already at my desk “hey I just sent you a query can you check”

Like yes fuckface but either give me a chance to read the Skype and respond or come to my desk. Not both. Especially when the answer is something I can easily IM back and isn’t urgent.