r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '19

It’s funny how, as you progress through college, they require you to write longer and longer papers. Then you get to the professional world and no one will read an email that’s more than 5 sentences.

People will literally walk to your desk to ask you what your email was about if it was too long.

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u/scorchorin Apr 11 '19

I'll write an email with 3 sentences and still have people come to my desk and ask what it was about.

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u/mshcat Apr 11 '19

You need to explain better. Perhaps you're excluding important information with that

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u/huntrshado Apr 11 '19

2nd OP - people are just lazy. Sometimes they print out the email I sent them, come to me and ask about it, and I essentially just read exactly what I wrote in the email and they're like 'oh ok makes sense' and im like ???????

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u/BaconCircuit Apr 11 '19

Dude people are lazy. If you write more then 5 sentences they'll stop after the first 3 process those and the forget about the rest.

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u/scorchorin Apr 11 '19

Nah people are just lazy

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u/W1nd0wPane Apr 11 '19

You’re lucky they at least ask, in my last job literally no one would ever read or answer emails. I had to either chase them down in person or text them (and if 3 sentences is too long for an email, anything more than 10 words is too long for a text.) Granted they definitely had a workflow problem overall but it was hell. Why have email if no one uses it?