AIBU to have a grumble about carelessness?

[LemonMeringueThreePointOneFour]

Does anyone else get really irritated by people who make your life harder by being incredibly slapdash? I'm thinking of things like messages written without any kind of proofreading so you have read it twice to work out what the hell they mean; important information missed out of documents; email addresses misspelt; timings or dates incorrect, etc., etc.

NB I'm talking about businesses and colleagues sending work emails - i.e. people who are being paid to communicate clearly - not friends/relatives.

I had one today from a company I've only just started dealing with, saying, "Please provide them with our accounts email." But you haven't provided me with your accounts email, and now I have to write you another message asking for it which is a complete waste of my time when you should have given it to me in the first place!

Another one today: an email including the phrase, "If the computer they become helpless." Wtf does that even mean??

Recently I had to contact a couple of colleagues and both the addresses I was given by the administrator were incorrect, so obviously the emails bounced back, I had to go back to the administrator to check, wait for a response and then send the emails a second time.

No, I'm not perfect, but I do always cast an eye over messages before sending, and check figures, etc. Really gets my goat!

I thought this would be about my teenage son careless/clumsy/slapdash/lazy

Drives me up the wall. And has caused both him and me injuries too!

Absolutely not being unreasonable. I work with someone who is so slapdash that it actually makes things harder and creates more work for the rest of us for no reason.

What you said really made me say yes actually you're right! They are paid to communicate properly.

When we pull this person up on it, we get, oh its just how I am.....no!! Its Infuriating. Simple sentences written down we can't read because of the scrawling, mistakes with phone numbers, email addresses. I mean its not even being petty by getting annoyed, just do what you're supposed to do properly!!

So not you are NOT being unreasonable.

Ooh that got me going 🤣

Yes. My bugbear atm is a manager emailing me saying another manager is chasing an update. Asking me for update so they can update him .
I replied saying they should encourage said manager to read the emails sent to him by me.
He not only had it, but took time to send a pompous, wiffling reply which indicated that he had NOT bothered his arse reading it.
Unbelievable. All the managers are like this.

Just thought of another one. I needed to book a meeting in a specific room. I told the administrator who said it was too early, she hadn't started the timetable for that month. I tried again a week or so later. Oh, it's too late, the timetable has already been done and I've already allocated that room on that date.

When I was going through a divorce, I had a lawyer who made so many stupid little mistakes - it used to infuriate me. One document she sent me had about 10 mistakes such as spelling my X's name incorrectly, writing his DOB as 1860 instead of 1960. Stating his age as 60 instead of 55 (think she had all the 60's muddled in her brain !) loads of things like that. She even had the cheek to try to charge me for the 'phone consultation' when I had to ring and correct all her errors !

@AmyDudley

When I was going through a divorce, I had a lawyer who made so many stupid little mistakes - it used to infuriate me. One document she sent me had about 10 mistakes such as spelling my X's name incorrectly, writing his DOB as 1860 instead of 1960. Stating his age as 60 instead of 55 (think she had all the 60's muddled in her brain !) loads of things like that. She even had the cheek to try to charge me for the 'phone consultation' when I had to ring and correct all her errors !

Yes, the last time I used a lawyer I had to proofread his draft letters for him before he sent them out. So many errors, even ones I'd corrected in previous versions.

I hope you didn't pay for the "consultation". Perhaps you should have charged her for doing her work?!

Yes yes yes OP. This bugs me on a daily basis. The man I work for communicates by means of totally incomprehensible one line emails. Eg. I send a brief question 'you need to specify x option or y option?' and he will reply 'yes ok tell him'.

He maintains he does it because he's in a rush and so busy. It's just soooo fking irrational though because all it means is I have to reply asking him to clarify, then he'll reply saying 'ok yes definitely not sure what you're asking'. It invariably results in a phone call where he'll waffle around the subject and about how he REALLY thinks he's getting somewhere with this project he's interested in. I finally pin him down on a response and we've both wasted half an hour.

Honestly it gives me a headache thinking about it so I won't go on!

@StarryStrawberry

Yes yes yes OP. This bugs me on a daily basis. The man I work for communicates by means of totally incomprehensible one line emails. Eg. I send a brief question 'you need to specify x option or y option?' and he will reply 'yes ok tell him'.

He maintains he does it because he's in a rush and so busy. It's just soooo fking irrational though because all it means is I have to reply asking him to clarify, then he'll reply saying 'ok yes definitely not sure what you're asking'. It invariably results in a phone call where he'll waffle around the subject and about how he REALLY thinks he's getting somewhere with this project he's interested in. I finally pin him down on a response and we've both wasted half an hour.

Honestly it gives me a headache thinking about it so I won't go on!

I also used to work for someone like this. Absolute bloody nightmare. How these people get into senior positions I have no idea.

Just remembered that the lawyer I used also managed to introduce some fictitious woman's name into the correspondence.