How can I politely inform her that I need her to get to the point immediately and not waste my time on pleasantries? Ignoring her means her question doesn't get answered because she won't ask it until I respond to her pleasantries, and also means I am constantly low-level aware of her hanging ping, which makes it hard to concentrate on my work. I've tried ignoring her until she asks an actual question, but she'll just wait (possibly assuming I'm busy/afk?), meaning her question doesn't get answered.
This can occupy several minutes or more as I answer her, go back to what I was doing while waiting for her to respond, then get interrupted again when she responds a few minutes later with another pleasantry, etc. Then silence until I answer her and engage in pleasantries, after which she'll finally get to the point. Her messages to me always look like this: However, I have one coworker who doesn't seem to notice or care. Most of my coworkers are fine with this, and many do the same.
I keep my Slack status set to " " as a way to remind my coworkers of this, and generally don't respond to Slack messages unless they contain something I can respond to. I am a huge proponent of nohello in the workplace - I get way too many Slack messages and other interrupts to waste time on pleasantries.
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