I really want to set this as my status message in slack, but don’t want people to think I’m rude.
Would you think it was rude if you saw this link as somebody’s status message?
Would you think it was rude if you saw this link as somebody’s status message?
Absolutely not; clearly communicating expectations makes life easier for everyone, which is (much of) what politeness is supposed to be about in the first place. The only possible suggestion I have is inlining a 1-sentence summary.
E.g. I would prefer if you said "I don't mean to be rude, but in my honest opinion you're looking kind of shabby these days" rather than "You're ugly" (statements exaggerated for emphasis).
I think this matters less in the context of the original thread (the "hello" back-and-forth).
Nowadays I’m just a stochastic replier.
Most (not all) tech that tries to “fix” communication in the office suffers from this problem though so I’m not blaming Slack alone for this. It just is what it is.
Because you see I had the palm tree emoji. AND a bit of text. Still got PMs and calls.
The emoji didn’t seem to matter.
Also I sent a college a message while he was on holiday knowingly so that he can see and may reply if he wants to when he comes back.
If you are on holiday (palm emoji) you are free to not pick up any calls and messages, until an unless you job is life critical and requires you to respond immediately at any hour.
It does give me a good chuckle to think how annoyed someone must have been to have made this site in the first place :)
I would be inclined to think it odd if I saw just one person with that status. When I saw every other person using it, it became less off-putting to me.