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[–] 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The expectation to always be available and reachable. Since the inception of mobile phones, you have to be reachable at all times and people get mad you didn't pick up.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It's breaking people. Sometimes I message some people and they don't respond for a couple of hours, and when they do they apologize and explain. If this keeps happening I'll ask them if they had/have an insecure partner or toxic workplace. Then I plant this seed "buddy, an email or a text or a call is not an automatic consent to dialogue. Get back to me whenever, I don't care. Consent applies to communication." I don't have any patience for other people's insecurity if I don't or can't respond, and we need to give that boundary to others. Ghosting is setting a boundary. Fuck it if some baby feels ignored. That's their problem!

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    I especially hate this at work. I work with guys from the UK, about 5 hours ahead of me. Since we don’t interact half a day, I need to leave an update so they know where things are in their morning. However they keep thinking they need to respond.

    If I’m leaving you a text at the end of my day, 10pm your time, I’m expecting you to act on it in the morning, dammit, and you’ll have half a day before I even notice. I’m not trying to take away your family time

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