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[Half and half]

And vice versa.

I generally try to smile and say, "Hey" or "What's up." But I rarely stop to chat if we're just passing by. Sometimes, people don't make eye contact or say anything. I find it a little peculiar, but don't take it personally.

So, GAF, what do you do? Or at least, what do you consider to be normal work etiquette?

 

[gdt]

"Hello everyone"

 

[xxracerxx]

Of course. I like the people I work with and it is a small studio environment.

 

[entremet]

Yes. We do have some grouches who don't say hi back, though.

 

[bjork]

They say hi to me because I'm usually either waking up, or I've got headphones on and don't notice them unless they're right next to me.

 

[Mecha_Infantry]

I used to, but most are emotionless programmers who keep their head down

Now I throw up a deuce and bounce

 

[FairyD]

I say good morning and good bye when I leave.

 

[Silas Lang]

Yeah I usually say, "Good Morning" or "How are you today", etc.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

No. They greet me!!!!

 

[samus i am]

At my old job, no. At my new job, yes.

 

[Hale-XF11]

When I had a job, I used to walk in most mornings and say "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum." Kinda set the tone.

 

[Hoo-doo]

Why not? A quick nod and "hey, good morning" isn't that hard.

 

[awilliams213]

I say hey to the ones I know that aren’t going to tell me how things are actually going.

 

[def sim]

A smile or a nod with a good morning greeting works well enough. I would rather not get into some small talk, but wouldn't mind too much if someone initiates it.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Yeah, I work with some great people.

 

[The Elite]

Of course. I like the people I work with and it is a small studio environment.

I don't like most of the people I work with and I still say Hello.

 

[[KoRp]Jazzman]

Only my "cubicle buddy" first thing when i walk in (as she sits right behind me), and then to everyone as I see them when im walking to the Kitchen or such.

 

[Snkfanatic]

A smile or some form of acknowledgement. Some people I will say hello to or ask how they are. I work for a smallish company though, so that may change things.

 

[Entropia]

Yes.

 

[RSLAEV]

yup. a quick smile nod or wave makes everyone more approachable.

 

[Banjotanooki]

They usually greet me, considering I've trained most of my co-workers, lol

 

[eternaLightness]

I usually just smile and say "hey" or "how's it going" to the ones I don't work directly with. Occasionally we'll converse with one another.

 

[Steelrain]

I say "Hello" or "What's up errrbody"

 

[Seda]

usually a quick "Hey"

 

[Visualante2]

I've evolved beyond greetings. I have better things to do with my time and I pity people who cling to dated social gestures.

Just look at the way "alright?" became a greeting. It's half greeting half, skip to the meat of a conversation.

 

[Crayons]

I only had a job once, and I didn't even talk to the other lady working there once.

 

[zonezeus]

Sure. I meet a lot of people at work just passing by, so there's a lot of greetings, handshakes and occasional smalltalk, especially since my walk from the parking lot to the locker room and from the locker room to control room where I work is quite long. And then in the room where I work, well, we greet too, but mostly with farts, laughs and yo Mama jokes.

 

[Vicetrailia]

The only answer is yes if you work with people.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Yup. Everyone's cool around where I work.

 

[captmorgan]

Nothing more than a very slight head nod is ever needed.

Most small talk is bullshit anyway "How are you today?" Does any one really want an other answer but fine/good. Maybe its just me but I don`t really give a fuck how the other person is doing....Awww your house burned down, it burns when you pee, you can`t feel the left side of your face...huh well that's sucks gotta run.

 

[X05]

Yes, and talk with all 80 of them.

Not sure if I should be surprised by most of the answers here though.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

I generally stop to say hello to a majority of my team and shoot some water cooler type stuff. Usually this is followed up by some sort of technical question I have.

I work hours in "the trenches" with my technicians. The better a connection I have with them. the better chance I have to succeed as an engineer.

 

[BananaBomb]

At my last job nobody did. Felt bad man.

 

[krae_man]

A few years ago I used to work at a Quiznos and one day right as my shift was ending a pile of customers came in and I stuck around for 20 minutes to help everyone through the rush. When that finished I said "I better get out of dodge before more customers come back" and my boss said to me "Excuse me, I've never herd someone say something so incredibly rude in all my life". I responded "Wait what?" and she replied "You said 'later dicks'".


From that point on, we used ____ Dicks to greet or say goodbye to eachother.

 

[Angry Grimace]

I have two, so yes.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

"Morning, Bitches!" Or "How are you colostomy bags doing this morning?" Something along those lines.

Spoiler

for real

 

[CrankyJay]

Yes, I used to work at a larger company where people just put their head down without saying hi, and I was guilty of that myself. Now I work in a smaller place and make it a point to say goodmorning and hello to everyone I passed on the way to my office.

 

[Forkball]

"Does anyone here practice common social gestures lest they seem like an asocial lunatic?"

 

[Cat Party]

Yes, I select the appropriate business hug for the situation.

 

[Borgnine]

Usually I'll nod on the way in to he 2 minutes hate.

 

[alphaNoid]

I work for a company with 45,000+ employees so I only greet the 10-15 around me in my department.

 

[Karak]

Of course.

 

[Rad-]

Well of course. Who the hell doesn't?

 

[RiccochetJ]

Of course we all talk.

 

[UFRA]

What kind of question is this?

If you can't even say "hi" to your co-workers you aren't fit for any kind of work environment that isn't a solo job.

I always say hi to my co-workers, and even made friends with some of them and hang out with them.

 

[Half and half]

Maybe a more useful question would've been, "Do you greet 'everybody'? Even if you don't know them" or "Does everyone greet each other at your job"

I've been at 4 companies with 100+ employees and all of them have a non-trivial number of people are quiet when passing each other.

Wish we had a polling system on GAF.

 

[Hilbert]

Of course I do, what am I a sociopath?

 

[BankaiZaraki]

Of course I do. Its the polite thing to do. If I have a minute before my shift starts, I'll talk for a minute.

 

[Nevasleep]

Yes if we make eye contact. I'll make a detour to see friends.
I normally make more of an effort to say bye.

Still find it weird when people don't bother, but whatever.

 

[Muffdraul]

The first thing I do when I arrive is go into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee. There's a girl who sits in a cubicle right across from the kitchen, she's always been a very odd sort, I suspect she's on prozac or some other med that makes her... unnaturally chipper. She's has a knack for starting random, often awkward conversations. There's no avoiding her, so I make eye contact as a woosh past and say whatever; "Hey." "Mornin'." If there's anyone in the kitchen I say something along the same lines to them... but only if we make eye contact or if they say it first. Then I walk to my office, around a couple of corners and down a hall. There's only one cubicle on the way, another girl sits there who I've been good friends with ever since I started here six years ago. We usually do a "'sup?" nod to each other when I walk by. Everyone else on the path is in an office and I just walk past. I walk into my office and me and my office mate (who arrives one hour before me) greet each other in goofy high pitched voices. We're kinda weird.