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cathoderaydude
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comment I just made in a chat, regarding coworkers making no effort to keep email threads readable:

It's wild how Coworkers are always oblivious. Invariably, everyone you ever speak to as a direct acquaintance will be the only person that they work with who pays any attention to their environment or surroundings, or actually looks at the effect of what they're doing, or thinks about taking actions that would make their job easier or their work cleaner. There's only ever one person, and that's the person you know, and somehow every other employee at that entire company is just utterly oblivious.

it's been that way everywhere I've worked. anyone else I talk to about i.e. "hey maybe we should stop using our full signatures on every single message, so email threads are more readable" looks at me like a Martian; I gave up years ago. They hate the way emails look, I can watch them on a screenshare struggling to find a simple piece of information in an email because 95% of the space is taken up by the same signature over and over and over, and the actual data is relegated to hard-to-parse lines of text tucked in between these huge, useless boilerplates. They obviously don't like how this is working, but they seem incapable of recognizing that it frustrates them.

The email thing is just an example, there are hundreds of problems at every job I've worked at that that would be simple to fix if people would just think for a second about what irritates them or slows down their work, but they won't even acknowledge that the problem exists even if it's right in front of them, and I just don't understand how I could be the only person who can see this, or how My immediate friends can be the only people at each of their employers that can see problems like this. The probabilities just don't make sense.


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

At my office job we were Required to Have Signatures, so if we had to send something to corporate or a different office or whatever it could be tracked easier, but it meant that intraoffice emails could get long by just signatures because honestly, it was just set it and forget it. Turn on automatic signatures and then you work on glazing over the signatures of your coworker or manager three rows over.

The pseudo-funny thing about corporate where i work is that the signatures are mandatory, includes image and full color content, and are non-optionally added to every messages, including replies and transfers.

And to make things even more interested, we don't really have access to a proper computer during work hours, so all communications aimed at us, forklift drivers, have to be printed. And because of corporate cost-saving policies, duplex printing is always-on.

And to add to the fun, people often load the printer with the pre-cut sheets that are used to make 6 price tags out of one letter-sized page.

So if we're lucky, we end up with a 20-page document consisting of mostly signatures and headers, with fragments of information spread through the mess, often on the other side of one page.

If we're unlucky, we end up with 120 little paper rectangles with text fragments on both sides, that we have to put together like a puzzle and tape into a solid document so that they can be flipped over and read on both sides.

And somehow, this is normal.