Just Tell Me What You Want

If you send me (a millenial) a chat message, get to the point. Trust me, it's not going to hurt my feelings.

Don't do this

You 1:24 PM
Hello.
Me 1:52 PM
...And then?
Me 4:20 PM
Hi there, do you have some time to chat??
You're going to be waiting awhile.

Do this

You 1:24 PM
I tried running the deployment pipeline. But I'm getting this error message: "Bash exited with code '42'."
Me 1:52 PM
It looks like you are referencing the wrong path on line 12, it should reference $(defaultDirectory).
You 4:20 PM
I'm having trouble with the intranet site, its very sluggish to load.
Me 4:23 PM
I am checking it out, thanks.

Please, just tell me what you want. You don't have to say hello... but you can if it makes you feel better. Just follow it up with what you might actually need help with.


You'll probably get what you want faster. I am busy, but maybe I can pause what I'm doing to help you. But I don't actually know until you TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT.


Believe it or not, I can't keep every single thing I've ever worked on in my head. If you tell me what you want, I can look it up, and then if we do need to discuss it on the phone I will be more prepared to help you.