It isn’t just 2 minutes. I’ll have people ping me “Hi” and I could be busy on calls for a few hours and they won’t have added any context in the interval.
I reply “Hey, what’s up?” and by the time I respond they are busy and take a few hours to respond with their ask.
If they had the ask in the initial message I could’ve had the answer in my first response.
There is nothing wrong with pleasantries. Nobody is saying that is the problem. The problem is requiring a response before making your ask.
If you’re just chatting to chat that is another matter.
Hmm this is fair, I was thinking about saying "hi" before the ask being the problem. But the problem is really making it a blocking factor in the communication. People should definitely proceed after "hi" even without a response
I reply “Hey, what’s up?” and by the time I respond they are busy and take a few hours to respond with their ask.
If they had the ask in the initial message I could’ve had the answer in my first response.
There is nothing wrong with pleasantries. Nobody is saying that is the problem. The problem is requiring a response before making your ask.
If you’re just chatting to chat that is another matter.