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+#+title: Don't Say Hello
+#+date: 2024-01-08
+#+description: A short post describing my displeasure with cliffhanger conversations.
+#+filetags: :personal:
+
+I recently came back from a winter break and have started working
+again... only to immediately run into the dilemma of people sending me
+cliffhanger messages again.
+
+* No Hello
+A year or two ago, I discovered [[https://nohello.net/en/][no hello]]
+and have thought about it often since then. I've even sent it to a few
+people since then (who wouldn't take offense to it).
+
+I work in a fast-paced environment where efficiency is extremely
+valuable. Therefore, I have always held a deep displeasure for
+conversations where people start with "Hello" and then.
+
+I searched back through my work messages and found that I received ~50
+messages from ~10 people last year from people that contained "hi",
+"hey", or "hello" and did not contain any indication of the purpose of
+the conversation. I also noticed that a few of the users were
+responsible for the large majority of the cliffhangers.
+
+There's no real point to this post, just a desparate request for people
+to please stop doing this.