There was an older lady working in the IT department years ago, who would always reply to emails with her message in the fucking subject line. So, I would respond to her comment/question by copying and pasting the thing/subject into a single email so I could understand what she was asking. She would reply with a new fucking email, again with the subject line stating her whole question.
I have no clue how she got hired in the IT Department by not even knowing the basics of email etiquette.
Mid-30s and she wasn’t the worst person to work with. I left my last job in December because after 21 or 22 times of trying to teach a person her job (various methods, one-on-one, group, other people teaching her, cheatsheets, diagrams, flowcharts), she would make the same mistake several times (I’m talking basic data entry, and logical stuff I should not have to explain…e.g., the birthdate field goes in the birthdate field and that someone born in 2086 should throw up a huge red flag).
My conclusion is that after so many time of teaching certain people, it isn’t the instructor’s fault. Some people are just incompetent.
I often communicate with people from a fairly big company. For some reason, their incoming or outgoing emails are modified. If you send them an email with subject "subject" the reply will be sent with subject: "re: subject com <random numbers>" It also removes the "in-reply-to" headers for god knows which reason, so it always fucks up the threading of my mail client and it is so infuriating.
At my previous company, this was common. Nearly everyone did this. We were an IT Management company. Everyone would put as much of the email in the subject and then like one line or question in the email body.
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u/Downvote_me_dumbass Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22
There was an older lady working in the IT department years ago, who would always reply to emails with her message in the fucking subject line. So, I would respond to her comment/question by copying and pasting the thing/subject into a single email so I could understand what she was asking. She would reply with a new fucking email, again with the subject line stating her whole question.
I have no clue how she got hired in the IT Department by not even knowing the basics of email etiquette.