I don't do this (and it wouldn't really be possible with the set up of our office), but I can see the advantageous.

Even working from home, we have a teams chat for our team where people will often say good morning - the second I do, my one co worker will call me on Teams, before I have the chance to check my emails, or get settled in. She does the same thing in the office (we have flexible hours, so she starts at 7 and has already been online or in the office for 1.5 hours at this point).

I don’t work in an office any more but I hate small talk so I will often enter or leave through doors that don’t require me to go past colleagues desks so I can avoid making it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sneaking out is immature. Just own it. Its fine to say I am in a rush to leave. I don’t think anyone cares if you’re actually getting your work done.

My number one pet peeve is when you have a meeting scheduled with someone (at like 3PM) and you think it will happen live, only to waste a few minutes and then realize they snuck out. That feels like really? You couldn’t have stayed an extra hour to have this meeting live?

Why does the meeting need to be in person? It works just as well virtually. Your colleagues don’t exist to provide you with human companionship.

My point is that they are already in the office so like either suggest we move the meeting to a time when we can do it live, or just tell me hey I am leaving see you on zoom. I think everyone can agree an in person meeting is still much more effective than a zoom.

I'm a big fan of hybrid, but we get so much more accomplished with in person meetings.

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Anonymous wrote:Go say good morning to these people. Oh did you just get in? Was there lots of traffic? It was clear when I got here at 8:30. Leave notes on the door with time, sorry I missed you come see me when you get in. Sure you could send an email, but nobody else would see that.

Get a life!

+1

If you're spending your work hours trying to sabotage your coworkers like this, your work performance is probably suffering too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sneaking out is immature. Just own it. Its fine to say I am in a rush to leave. I don’t think anyone cares if you’re actually getting your work done.

My number one pet peeve is when you have a meeting scheduled with someone (at like 3PM) and you think it will happen live, only to waste a few minutes and then realize they snuck out. That feels like really? You couldn’t have stayed an extra hour to have this meeting live?

Why does the meeting need to be in person? It works just as well virtually. Your colleagues don’t exist to provide you with human companionship.

My point is that they are already in the office so like either suggest we move the meeting to a time when we can do it live, or just tell me hey I am leaving see you on zoom. I think everyone can agree an in person meeting is still much more effective than a zoom.