:heart: emojis from colleagues at work (1 Viewer)

[Joe Bryant]

Edit: One thing I have learned over the years is that introverts understand extroverts just fine, but extroverts often seem to be unaware that introverts even exist. Self-awareness is not at all equally distributed between these groups, and your post is an example of that.

I agree. I've seen it work 1 way like this.

 

[belljr]

Good lord, I'd block Teams if I had some of y'all for co-workers. Don't need my messages filled with cute symbols instead of words. A simple Thanks! or even a you're welcome will suffice.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm apparently supposed to go to the kitchen to watch my co-workers stuff their pie holes with cake thanks to someone successfully navigating another year around the sun. Whippie!!

I'm thinking maybe you don't understand - we are talking about reactions the same way we have them at FBGs. I don't think any of us are putting hearts or thumbs up in the messages themselves. I'm assuming it doesn't bother you at FBGs, right?

My work life is a completely different head space than my personal life and I find it hard to take people seriously who use emojis on the job instead of words. We are not tween agers, we are professional adults so let's act that way.

Ok, it feels like you still don't understand (or maybe I don't!). Are you saying you don't use reactions at all in a tool like Teams or Slack?

That's right, I don't use the reactions in my Teams, Outlook or Zoom, with the exception of an occasional back and forth with one o the folks I'm chummy with around here. But that's sort of a closed loop type interaction.

I find that interesting - just about everyone that I interact with at my company uses the reactions - it's so much easier to give a quick thumbs up than the "thank you" - "you're welcome" back and an forth. How much do you use Teams? I'm in Teams maybe 25-50% of my day (if you include meetings) every day. That could be part of it.

Me and a guy I work with see how many teams auto responses we can go through until they either run out or one of us taps out