I could really drone on about so many things, but I’ll settle with one that really irks me about the industry I used to work in:
People who don’t use email or more specifically what I call “threading” right.
Changing the topic (so that the discussion no longer relates to the subject line), replying to add someone in without attaching the relevant attached files, not using redirect email functionality, including screenshots that’s either missing relevant information or forces the recipient into retyping its contents by hand are all things that make email extremely frustrating in an email-oriented industry.
Semi-related: people who don’t read error messages. As a web developer (or more broadly “computer person”) I cannot count how many times someone sends me a picture of an error asking me what to do. 90% of the time the error itself tells you exactly what to do. Why do I need to read it for you?
I could really drone on about so many things, but I’ll settle with one that really irks me about the industry I used to work in:
People who don’t use email or more specifically what I call “threading” right.
Changing the topic (so that the discussion no longer relates to the subject line), replying to add someone in without attaching the relevant attached files, not using redirect email functionality, including screenshots that’s either missing relevant information or forces the recipient into retyping its contents by hand are all things that make email extremely frustrating in an email-oriented industry.
Semi-related: people who don’t read error messages. As a web developer (or more broadly “computer person”) I cannot count how many times someone sends me a picture of an error asking me what to do. 90% of the time the error itself tells you exactly what to do. Why do I need to read it for you?