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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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