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Just as the title asks I've noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they're reading.

They'll read it and despite all the information being there, if it's even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it's complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it's making me lose my fucking mind.

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[–] relative_iterator 119 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At work if I ask 2 questions in an email I’m guaranteed 1 or 0 answers.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My boss is horrible about this. He also doesn't organize his inbox in conversation view so he'll randomly pop up in different parts of an ongoing thread and can't keep track of what people are talking about.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

You should fire your boss. Sounds like they're not a great fit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OMG fr. I'll ask my boss, shall we do option 1,or option 2? and he'll write back, Yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Actchually, that is a perfectly correct response according to propositional calculus.

One or the other? Yes, one or the other.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's not just reading comprehension. People are always answering my questions with unapplicable answers.

"Is it on the left or the right?"

"It's 67, the one with grass in the yard."

Just answer the damn question rather than providing me other information you decide would be more helpful!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok so in defense of dumbasses, we don't always understand the question. Eg, whose left? In those cases we don't want to make your clarify the question and drag things out, so we give you what we hope is an unequivocally clear response. It comes from a deep-seeded fear of miscommunication resulting in too many mailboxes with their flags on the wrong side or whatever. We apologize for the pedantry, though. I get that it's annoying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When we're driving typically left means left.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Depends which direction you’re coming from though

[–] jscummy 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now we're starting to see another problem that might be at play when people say "I'm not getting answers to my questions"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

One key to happiness for me is to start from the assumption that I've been unclear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not if we're in the same car.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe because there's 10 kinds of email replies at your workplace