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AUGUST 19, 2009

Too Many People Don’t Read!

Today is a frustrating day. For a couple of weeks now on various fronts, various issues have arisen. Silly things really, surrounding mundane items. Most of them have been addressed via e-mail, some out of necessity, some out of perceived ease and some because this is required by the other parties involved.

Frustratingly, in four separate instances the processes have been drawn out, aggravating, time consuming events. Why? Because people do not read things in their entirety, if at all.

A while ago there was a far side cartoon, ‘what dogs hear: bla bla bla Spot, bla bla’. I am reminded of this. Some people seem to look at the subject only and presume they know the detailed contents. They are wrong.

This makes it that much harder, as then they reply based on their ideas instead of content and the originator of the whole must now not only re-explain their original problem, but also politely explain why the responder didn’t ‘get it’. Sometimes not an easy task.

Some days, I find this amusing. Today is not one. So, for those of you actually reading this, I say: thank you. There is at least one person in the universe that greatly appreciates you for this and is trying hard to be right there with you.

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bas bleu said, on Aug. 21 at 9:32AM
I got a kick out of the last sentence! =)