Scheidydude's Blog

Enough with the abbreviated speak people.  It may be fine in the “social” world, but some of us are trying to conduct business here, and email, believe it or not, can handle more than 140 characters.

Don’t worry, I am not going to get on my high horse and preach to you about everything that can go into emails that simply shouldn’t.  I am going to get on my miniature-horse and gripe about the new way of communicating in abbreviations because we are too busy or too lazy to type out the whole word.

Now I’m not talking about “OMG” or “ROTFL”, I’m talking about “Y” instead of “Why”.  If you are too distracted to answer me in a clear and precise response then maybe someone else should be answering the question.

This isn’t the only time people cut corners.  We have all sent out an email asking a question that requires more than a yes or no answer.  Sometimes we may even provide a few options to pick from.  Only to have that person respond “Yes” or “No”, or even worse “Y”.  (See above)

And let us not forget the so called reply that has no previous message attached.  “That sounds good.”  What sounds good?  Are you hearing things?  What are the little voices in your head saying?  I could tell you what mine are saying about those emails, but I shouldn’t post such things.

Oh, and thank you random coworker for reminding me by doing this just now, how I hate being forwarded an email of a partial conversation and being asked to take action.

“Can you handle this?”  I can handle just about anything.  Except idiots who don’t tell me what they would like handled.

Let me give you a recent example.  I sent an email to a coworker asking two questions.  It looked something like this: “Should I get the standard paper or textured and what color?”  He replied “K”.  Is “K” a style of paper?  Is he referring to the black in “CMYK”?  How more useless could this “K” be?  To put it in perspective, that very same day he sent me a text that read “I am stuck in restroom.  Please bring TP.”  NOW he has time to send a clear and concise message.  So I replied with one letter…and it wasn’t “K”.