It was interpreted by the “hi” folks as me not ever being at work.
Eventually (as I anticipated) someone complained that I missed an important priority issue about X.
I had to explain how “hi” /= important issue about X and that I revive so many “hi” messages that I couldn’t assume they’re all important.
It was pretty tiresome explaining it, but it worked, I stopped getting “hi” and got “hi, important issue X”.
I make a point to clean my email to 0 daily.
I don’t always get there, but often.
I consider email ephemeral and it should have a very short life.
One thing I love about Jira is the paper trail. I always make sure comms goes through it or is pasted into it.
I was accused and DISCIPLINED for not responding to a request to fix something minor while on vacation. I showed the paper trail, it did nothing. I was still “monitored for improved feedback”. When I got a new boss however, I showed him everything and he said he has been told of this incident (as a potential bad employee) and acknowledged this was proof the old boss was full of shit.