Irrational things that annoy you (and non irrational things too come to think of it)

[semi-pro waster]

Originally Posted by divine

Alllllllllll of my emails go out with a read receipt request, but then I have to issue a lot of documents via email so it helps to have them when someone later denies having received something important as I can tell them the date and time that they read the email in question

All it shows though is that they clicked on the email in question or it was highlighted before they clicked away and accepted the read receipt, there's not an option to say simply that you've received the message although that's effectively all a read receipt is. Quite often at work I don't have the time (or perhaps inclination in some cases) to properly read an email as soon as I've received it yet there's not an option to delay the read receipt until later on when I do get round to it.

I sometimes accept read receipts and sometimes don't, that doesn't mean anything about whether I've taken in the message. I'm more likely to vary my acceptances if I'm constantly getting read receipt requests from someone on unimportant emails though.

[volospian]

Originally Posted by Pheebs

I think it was the stained y fronts and nutella covered nipples that kind of threw me... but I now understand that this is just the attire you don when enticing your rabbits back into their cage. It was just coincidental that Bugsy and Malone had escaped five weeks previous and then been reported in the same restaurant in which I was dining at that very night... that's all!

Exactly. And you went on about it as if it were some kind of highly unlikely series of events. Oh damn... there they go again... Quick... I'm good for stained y fronts, but has anybody got any nutella??

[volospian]

Pople who, because they managed to connect their laptop to their home hub, suddenly think they are IT experts and that they can go off and procure their own enterprise solutions without needing any input from IT... STOP IT, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, FFS!!!

[Belmit]

In a similar vein, the geniuses who create a home network, assign static local IP addresses to their laptops (for reasons unknown), then turn up angry that their computer won't connect to the uni wireless.

Oh, and then tell us that if their home network doesn't work any more because we 'fixed' the problem they'll be right back to let us know.

[Will]

LOLOLOL!!! SO glad I don't work in the IT business anymore!

[divine]

Originally Posted by semi-pro waster

All it shows though is that they clicked on the email in question or it was highlighted before they clicked away and accepted the read receipt, there's not an option to say simply that you've received the message although that's effectively all a read receipt is. Quite often at work I don't have the time (or perhaps inclination in some cases) to properly read an email as soon as I've received it yet there's not an option to delay the read receipt until later on when I do get round to it.

I sometimes accept read receipts and sometimes don't, that doesn't mean anything about whether I've taken in the message. I'm more likely to vary my acceptances if I'm constantly getting read receipt requests from someone on unimportant emails though.

It's good enough to tell me they at least got the mail, it's their own problem if they never bothered to actually read it, I have enough to show that I did my part of the process properly, my ass is covered! :P

[Dymetrie]

Your donkey?

The prevelance of donkeys in this country is becoming quite startling!

[SidewinderINC]

Originally Posted by divine

It's good enough to tell me they at least got the mail, it's their own problem if they never bothered to actually read it, I have enough to show that I did my part of the process properly, my ass is covered! :P

I'm with you on that, but I do agree with SPW that you should be able to say "go away for now read receipt box, ask me next time I open this email" I generally click no to read receipts because I want to scan an email but don't want to acknowledge that I'm actually doing something about it just yet (which in my company read receipts tend to be)

[Kitten]

you can preview it ~ if you dont actually click to open it, you can preview the contents without triggering the read receipt.

[divine]

Eating scrambled egg on toast and all the egg falling off the toast as you lift it towards your mouth.