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> so unless you follow up, they will probably just ignore you, correctly believing that you do not even want to talk to them so much

This is just bs. They are not "correctly believing", they are just assuming my time is worth less than theirs. Unless they are my direct boss, I won't be "following up" at all. I will just say I am blocked on action so-and-so by person so-and-so who is not responding.

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If I were your direct report and you said you were blocked on action so-and-so by person so-and-so who is not responding I would accept that for a brief period and then ask what you have done to follow up with the person including the use of alternative communication channels. If the answer was nothing the following conversation would not be a comfortable one.

I had a team lead like that once. I ran away screaming ASAP at the first opportunity. How is that fair that I can reply within minutes to every email/slack/phone call, but multiple persons within the company don't ever reply and it's my fault???

Them not replying to an email is not your fault. What I would consider someone's responsibility is to follow up and try alternative communications to just sending an email. If that doesn't work then escalate it on your own accord to your team lead. What I would consider not acceptable is sending one email and just blocking any attempts at forward action because you didn't get a response. Quite honestly that type of behavior would make me happy to see you run away screaming.

I understand your position. However from my position it just creates more work for me and balancing between spamming people and being always ready to answer to the teamlead "What happened to X?" and the answer "It's at Joe's" is not acceptable. Anyway, to me it wasn't a healthy environment.

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