List of Grrr: part 1

1. Putting a timestamp on an e-mail that ensures it stays at the top of my list for a full day. This, presumably, is meant to be ‘clever’ marketing.

2. Hiding what turns out to be an interesting service offering in a dense collage of jargon, hyperbole and clichés.

3. Leaving a voice message with little information other than a request to be rung back. One’s immediate family or close friends are entitled to do that: a work associate or business acquaintance is not.

 4. Irish websites with no information about who is behind the business. Call me old-fashioned, but I like to see enough confidence in the product or service to put a name and contact address up.

 5. E-mails with pictures and graphics embedded into them. They tip the e-mail into negative appreciation territory.

6. People who print off large reports and then just leave them in the printer. In our office, they go in the bin when I come across this, no matter what's on them.

7. People who send e-mails around -- at least twice a week -- asking for things (such as painkillers, chocolate) that they could easily, easily organise themselves (such as by walking across the road to the local newsagents)

8. PDF files. Full stop.

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Comments

[Orlaith]

Shops in Dublin that sell gift cards which cannot be redeemed in their outlet in Cork! Something silly in their terms & conditions about "third party concession shops" not being able to accept gift cards Grrrrr!!!