AIBU to think parents lazy and rude when they ask easily findable questions to a class group?

[BrownEyed]

On a class WhatsApp group there are parents who ask what I consider stupid questions like ‘are they back at school tomorrow or Tuesday?’. They clearly have access to a mobile, tablet or computer to post to the group. Why do they feel they have the right to waste other parents’ time rather than take one minute (it isn’t hard to find) to check the school website? In reality I just ignore it and aother parent invariably replies. I did try in the past to highlight the calendar page on the website and it went down like a lead ballon with a response of ‘I was only asking in case someone knew off the top of their head’. I haven’t met most of these parents as it is secondary, the children come from a wide area and I work full time. AIBU to feel this way and does anyone have any suggestions to bring the lazy ones to the realisation that the other parents are not their personal PAs?

I would leave the group but sometimes there are helpful things like hearing about a teacher leaving that hasn’t been formally notified yet by the school so I don’t want to leave the group in case I miss something helpful but I am getting to the point where 98% of the group chat is from Parents asking for information already available to them and it is driving me bonkers.

My personal favourite is the posting of a question on Facebook that could just as easily have been typed IN THE GOOGLE SEARCH BAR!

I don’t mind answering and like the camaraderie - I’m sure I ask stupid stuff sometimes

It's just small talk like talking about weather. It's basically saying I'm here and up for a chat.

Yes. DH and I hate these. Aren't people embarrassed to ask mass parent groups questions like, what time is the play tomorrow? (Published on the calendar and we have had message from teacher to remind us plus its's ticketed and says it on the ticket aaargh)

What time is Morrison’s open - asking for a friend

7 am and hope you had a good Easter

how did we get on before technology? Mind boggles.

People used to phone a friend!!

Pre net - Schools used to do a paper newsletter I kept on the pin board and I looked at that for holiday dates. Simple.

Last year we had a mum post a picture of a joint of meat with "How long do you think I need to cook this for?" Erm... I have no fucking idea! I don't even know how much it weighs. Google? Sigh.

Do you get those who ask the same question as someone asked earlier because they are too lazy to scroll up a bit?

@marcopront Yes!

Yabu abit. It’s no different to small talk really, especially anything relating to the weather.

Thanks once :)

If you want to do small talk then it would be preferable for you to engage with a group of likeminded friend than just spam a list of people. We’ve got a class group and inane conversations that make my phone buzz at work are irritating.

Yabu. No one is forcing you to reply, if it irritates you so much.

Not everyone is gifted in conversation, I’m not and often ask about things I already know the answers to ..... just to start s conversation.

But what I can't understand is why people ask the question on the OPs whatsapp group on here when they could google in the same amount of time and get a reliably correct answer instead of all the half wrong, half right answers you get on here.

What is Ryanair's baggage allowance type questions are a good example.

Someone will reply - you can take 6 kg and it has to be smaller than 58 x 45 x 22 and the OP will reply 'great thanks' and get on with their day, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the reply was incorrect. Why would anyone not just look at the Ryanair website in the first place .

And even more confusingly, anyone who says, 'I don't think that's right, on the Ryanair website it says X, Y, Z', they will either get ignored, or shot down for being snippy if they dare to suggest that google and the official website might be better for any factual question/answer.

We have a work group (thousands of employees) where the same questions come up time after time. A core group of people bitch and grumble about it frequently saying people should use the search option. I find the bitchy ones much more annoying. I think they spend too much time online if these things are annoying them.

You never know what these people have going on in their lives. They may like the contact and friendliness of speaking to humans rather than google. Just get on with your own business, don't reply if they bug you.

It's all very well saying ignore it/don't reply if you're not interested in the conversation or it annoys you, but you have no choice but to wade through it to find the bits of information that are actually useful and important, or risk missing something crutial. There have been some days where I haven't checked my phone for a few hours and I return to near 100 messages! Often chitchat between 2 or 3 people that really should have been put on a separate (private) chat.