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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cold call when my status is busy or in a call. You’re interrupting me.

The message from someone who doesn’t understand the rules of asynchronous communication who just says ‘hi, it’s Bob’ ‘how are you?’ Or ‘can I ask you a question?’  And then waits for me to respond before continuing.  Just ask!

People (often men, not always) at my level who expect me to do admin work for them. One guy just asked me to summarize a Teams chat for him. Huh?

What else? [/quote]

Your second one about asynchronous is an Indian thing. I'm assuming you have a shared service center or Indian global delivery services type thing? There's something about the way they're trained or their culture. Also, they say, "Greetings of the day" a lot, which is weird. But they mean well and are trying to be polite.

Tell the guy who asked you to summarize a Teams chat to learn Co-Pilot. It will generate a summary.

My pet peeves are when my number ends up on some kind of call chart and suddenly my Teams starts blowing up with phone calls (it's linked to my office number) from people selling all sorts of services. I ignore and block the number after confirming it wasn't someone important.

Ironically, the other pet peeve is young people who are afraid to call someone on the phone. I had a junior person in PR who I asked to contact a reporter who had called ME for information. Instead of picking up the phone, this kid sent the reporter a text using Whatsapp. She was absolutely MORTIFIED when I instructed her to phone the guy. He was expecting a call.

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