|
I've been working remotely for about 13 years, something that I do with every new developer we hire, is to tell them that we are all available to answer their questions, no matter how "silly" they may think it is.
I tell them not to worry about interrupting what we are doing, because if we are truly busy, we will not go into the chat app (flowdock in our case), but when we have a minute, we'll come to it and if the question is already there, we can answer it right away, instead of saying hi back and having no clue what the real question was. And we are all very polite about it, we do say things like: "Hi, if you have a minute, how do I get this code working?" And, we also have a "water cooler" room/flow, where we talk anything that isn't work related, weather, music, etc, and there sure, you can just say hi and nothing else. In my case, it is not that I'm on a tight deadline, we make sure to have almost no tight deadline, my case is, I'm probably playing with my kids, or about to have breakfast with my wife, so if you need me, and post your question along with "hi", I can answer before I step away from the computer. Hope this gives you an alternative view. |