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Yeah people who reply immediately to email are weird. Do they not understand that every mode of communication has a different need of immediacy to reply? If a face to face has the highest followed by phone calls, IM is in the middle and email is right at the bottom together with letters. If I write you an email I expect a response within a few days not a few minutes.
Just because I reply immediately does not mean I expect a response immediately. If someone emails me when I'm able to immediately respond, I'll sometimes get the response out of the way right then. But email is asynchronous. I don't get mad if I respond immediately but then I don't hear back for quit awhile.
Exactly this.
I think the people I work with regularly eventually figure this out when they see my reply times varying from 3 seconds to two weeks lol
Email is for archival, IM should be banished. It's completely useless, steals your time, steals your focus, it's plain shit. I wish we could go back to emails and phonecalls only. People are way more hesitant to call someone, plus it's super easy to just set a phone to silent.
I often reply immediately to emails because I want to remove it from my mental load.
Why should I delay my answer because miss princess got her head smoking?
Think about it: There are persons outside of your 4 homeoffice walls.