I have pet peeves by the bucketful. I am owning that. It may not be a good thing, but it's one of MY things.
We can work on a list of my pet peeves later, number them and everything. For now, I am just going to gripe about one of them...
I have been corresponding with a woman through email, trying to get some information on a project I want to get going. When I write an email, I address the person with a 'Hello' or 'Thanks for responding' or whatever is freakin' appropriate for that email. PLUS, I always sign off, with 'Thanks' or 'I appreciate your help' or something else that a grown-up with manners might choose...and I even manage to tap out all four letters of my name. Impressive, I know.
As you may have guessed by now, the woman I am emailing back and forth with DOES NOT abide by the same guidelines. Lazy or rude? Who the hell knows?! She doesn't write enough for me to have a chance at figuring it out. And because the twit is too lazy to give my emails some full on attention and thought, I have to keep writing back to said twit with MORE QUESTIONS!!!
My initial innocent email that should have been taken care of in one response has now been going back and forth for four days, with my lovely, lively actual sentences that have capitals AND punctuation. And I continue to receive ten word, one line responses. How completely irritating.
So, my pet peeve(obviously) is people who don't respond in kind. Ya got that? I don't expect everyone to be as wordy as me. I can even deal with people abbreviating things, and failing to use all necessary punctuation. However, if you can clearly see that I am not a neanderthal who uses grunts and throat noises to communicate, why in the hell are you giving me that in response?
That all being said, there really isn't much I can do about the way this nitwit conducts herself in email. I made sure to respond in kind to her last one....
"One more ? do the others come too
thx"
Decipher that, doofus.
And that is EXACTLY why I'm teaching my students about communication etiquette!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness...can I refer some adults and you do a correspondence course;-)
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