This is not Pit-worthy, but it irritates me to death.
I work with a number of people who suffer from attachment disorder. That is to say, they would much rather attach a Word document containing a few lines of type (and critically important clip art, of course) than put the freakin’ information in the body of the e-mail.
And it’s always a Word document – never a PDF or JPG – that they probably labored over for hours, but I don’t have the fonts they used to create their masterpiece, so their artistic genius is for naught, as far as I’m concerned.
If you’re not sending a previously-prepared elaborately-formatted document with artwork and fonts and music, just type the freakin’ text in and send it!
I worked at one place with someone who would send all the info for an event in the email text, which contained a link to an intra-web page with all the info, and an attachment of a Word+ClipArt invitation to the event, with all the info.
She never did figure out why people were always asking her when such-and-such an event was…
It’s even worse here…people send a short memo via a network server link, which inevitably is incorrectly linked (e.g local K:\ file path, my K: drive isn’t mapped the same!) or the admins haven’t set up access for.
get email with link troubleshoot link typos and drive mapping and server names until found access to folder denied contact admin and add access to folder get access, map drive
“Retirement Potluck Friday for Mr. Unknown McYoudontknowhimstein!”
While I too support this rant, I must admit that 99.9% of the e-mail I receive at work is not in this vein. I receive many attachments, most are either pdf or snapshots with a lot of information on them (e.g. letters) but rarely do I get something like what you describe above.
