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.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 days ago

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.