One of the few features added to Microsoft Outlook in the last 10 years or so that is actually helpful is the reminder that helps you not to do this. I have a colleague who is notorious for sending attachment-less emails despite this - I suggested she added the word “attached” to her email signature so as to always trigger this warning :).
My response to the OP is forgetting some vital item when I leave my desk for a lunchtime run. I’d say at least 50% of the time I walk down 4 flights of stairs with my stuff, only to find I’ve left my shoes, socks, shorts, t-shirt, security pass, watch, towel, or shower gel behind.
Now that we’re discussing email, I’ll mention all my colleagues who use “Reply-To-All” on gigantic group emails, when they really should be replying only to the sender.
I will also mention all of the other colleagues who then reply-to-all screaming “STOP USING REPLY-TO-ALL!” I’ve had occasions where I end up with a couple dozen useless emails in my queue in the space of a few minutes.
This is one of my pet furies. Last week I sent an email to 25 members of a project that asked for a response.
The opening line of my email said DO NOT USE “REPLY ALL,” RESPOND INDIVIDUALLY!
The first response sent back was, naturally, via Reply All and it was a question: What is a Reply All? Then folks answered the question via Reply All. People, what is so @%#?&! hard about this?!
We have a few older professors (70yo and up) who refuse to learn about and use some technologies. There was a minor scandal last year when one of these guys, who had kind of sort of learned how to use our Campus email system, responded to an email sent by his work friend that said horrible things about a group of women in our department. Yup, he managed to send his response – which was equally nasty – to the entire department. Idiot.
Our Campus has made an enormous shift to being as paper-free as possible and some of the older profs refuse to do anything online. It’s cool if they don’t want to teach online, but their excuse for not learning even the basic technology – “I’m too old to learn it” is bullshit. One of our 80yo profs teaches online and is a tech whiz; guys, you’re just frickin’ LAZY.
Yes! You’re definitely not alone. I feel like there should be a rule that you can have automatic soap and automatic water, but not one or the other. The other day I was at the bar and left the water running in the womens’ room because I forgot it was not automatic while I was praising myself for remembering the soap was automatic. Aye!
I have this problem with my parents’ microwave, too. What I’ve ended up doing is always hitting the “1” button and standing there for however many seconds I need.
In the near corner…a bowl of rocky road ice cream.
In the far corner…cold-sensitive teeth and a half-hour of aching agony also inducing a secondary headache.
A little while before a vacation, it will occur to me to make sure I won’t run out of one of my prescriptions halfway through the trip. Feeling smug about my forethought, I go online and order any that come up for refill while we’re away.
I always discover that one of them needs renewal from the physician before I can refill. I call the pharmacy, and they say they’ll fax in a request to the doctor. Two days later, I see online that the renewal hasn’t happened. Cue a series of calls by me to both places until I finally pin down the problem (last time it was that the doctor’s office only used an old-fashioned fax machine, and couldn’t receive electronic faxes). Clear up the problem, finally get the order through and a day or so later, get my refill.
This usually takes me up to about 18 hours before our flight leaves. I do this EVERY TIME.
You’d think I’d eventually get a clue and check on this ahead of time. I think I’ll go calendar something to that effect right now - we’ll be away this October.
