This is a very old text that never got posted .. but I seem to be pasting it constantly so I decided to post it.
I've always considered chatting something you do while doing something else, so to me it has never been something to that keeps work on hiatus , I don’t jump and drop everything because my IM beeped in my ear ...
I've always considered chatting something you do while doing something else, so to me it has never been something to that keeps work on hiatus , I don’t jump and drop everything because my IM beeped in my ear ...
If you can't answer just don't, that is fine by me. A note to those who take offense at those who leave without saying goodbye: don't ! When someone is leaving (often in a hurry) you are *the last person on their mind* ..
Of course I do find excusable, although unpractical, people who need to say ‘brb’ (often 30 times an hour when they are busy). I tell them to just go ... we're all busy, we all have jobs or better things to do than chat.
I rarely use the ‘brb’ personally, not by lack of courtesy, but... Well imagine telling 30 people that you will be back in a min...
(plus i personally don’t like using the trendy-now-common shorthands like lol).
And then you have people who are inexcusable... 'brb, nature calling and its a big one'. Seriously!?
I don't care and I don't want to know; I am rarely disgusted, so it's not the image that bothers me; but I can feel the stupidity causing a couple of my neurons to commit suicide by association to that person; if tweeted, they're banned, Instantly, before their whole day tweet becomes a log of bathroom breaks and a nose picking e-diary.
