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@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
E-mail chain from yesterday:
Boss1: Does [blah] interest you?
Me: Yes.
Boss 1: What?
Me: Yes, [blah] interests me.New E-mail chain for today:
Boss1: Here is a forward about [blah2] and a [directive]. Please do not respond with inane clarification requests.
Me: [Hasn't and won't respond as there's no need.]Times like this I have to remind myself of the advice I give others "remember to breathe."
LOL - yeah I have email chains like that at times.
I've been given a directive - If I have questions in an email they must be at the top of the email. apparently the information which is what makes answering the questions more possible is annoying.
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@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
E-mail chain from yesterday:
Boss1: Does [blah] interest you?
Me: Yes.
Boss 1: What?
Me: Yes, [blah] interests me.New E-mail chain for today:
Boss1: Here is a forward about [blah2] and a [directive]. Please do not respond with inane clarification requests.
Me: [Hasn't and won't respond as there's no need.]Times like this I have to remind myself of the advice I give others "remember to breathe."
LOL - yeah I have email chains like that at times.
I've been given a directive - If I have questions in an email they must be at the top of the email. apparently the information which is what makes answering the questions more possible is annoying.
Heh. The beauty of it is the inane question actually came from the person telling me not to ask inane questions.
I was asked to clarity "yes." In retrospect I was probably too curt; however, given the context of the original E-mail, I was literally asked if I was interested in [the thing], so "yes" seemed pretty clear. -
My Grandma just avoided a phone scam by verifying with me
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@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
E-mail chain from yesterday:
Boss1: Does [blah] interest you?
Me: Yes.
Boss 1: What?
Me: Yes, [blah] interests me.New E-mail chain for today:
Boss1: Here is a forward about [blah2] and a [directive]. Please do not respond with inane clarification requests.
Me: [Hasn't and won't respond as there's no need.]Times like this I have to remind myself of the advice I give others "remember to breathe."
LOL - yeah I have email chains like that at times.
I've been given a directive - If I have questions in an email they must be at the top of the email. apparently the information which is what makes answering the questions more possible is annoying.
Heh. The beauty of it is the inane question actually came from the person telling me not to ask inane questions.
I was asked to clarity "yes." In retrospect I was probably too curt; however, given the context of the original E-mail, I was literally asked if I was interested in [the thing], so "yes" seemed pretty clear.Yeah - I get that. Sadly, they were unwilling or unable to read the rest of the attached emails to know what 'yes' was in response to. This is a problem we have around here.
for example - I really dislike small answers like - fine.
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
My Grandma just avoided a phone scam by verifying with me
Go grandma.
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@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
for example - I really dislike small answers like - fine.
In my experience, many people don't. I live by Strunk and White's rule of "omit needless words" whenever possible. Sometimes I forgot to add
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
My Grandma just avoided a phone scam by verifying with me
Grandma wins!
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@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
for example - I really dislike small answers like - fine.
In my experience, many people don't. I live by Strunk and White's rule of "omit needless words" whenever possible. Sometimes I forgot to add
-vto my interactions with others.-v?
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@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
for example - I really dislike small answers like - fine.
In my experience, many people don't. I live by Strunk and White's rule of "omit needless words" whenever possible. Sometimes I forgot to add
-vto my interactions with others.-v?
Verbose?
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@dashrender yes. Verbose.
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-v or --verbose would be the opposite of omitting needless words. . . it would actually add a bunch of words. . .
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@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender yes. Verbose.
I kinda figured after asking - lol
not that most would even know what that meant if you wrote
-verbose -
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
My Grandma just avoided a phone scam by verifying with me
But the Nigerian Prince who emailed her asking for $5,000 with the promise of $5 Million got through. . .
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@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
My Grandma just avoided a phone scam by verifying with me
But the Nigerian Prince who emailed her asking for $5,000 with the promise of $5 Million got through. . .
Wish everyone could say that
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@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender yes. Verbose.
I kinda figured after asking - lol
not that most would even know what that meant if you wrote
-verboseSee, if I had just wrote "yes" I likely would've earned the "don't be curt" E-mail. "yes. Verbose" is my compromise
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Solution for today:
Youtube Video -
Even if everyone in this building fought to the death using nothing but keyboards and optical mice, today would still be boring af.
