For example I’ll send an e-mail with 3 questions and will only get an answer to one of the questions. It’s worse when there are 2 yes/no questions with a question that is obviously not a yes/no question. Then I get a response of

Yes

back in the e-mail. So which question are they answering?

Mainly I’m asking all of you why do people insist on only answering 1 question out of an e-mail where there are multiple? Do people just not read? Are people that lazy? What is going on?

Edit at this point I’ve got the answers . Some are too lazy to actually read. Some admit they get focused on one item and forget to go back. I understand the second group. The first group yeah no excuse there.

Continuing edit: there are comments where people have tried the bullet points and they say it still doesn’t help. I might put the needed questions in red.

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
    6·
    3 days ago

    Considering your wording in the last paragraph

    I’m really confused by people’s reaction to OP here. I agree that I personally don’t share OP’s experiences, but what’s wrong with that last paragraph? It’s not overwhelming at all, so how does it indicate that their writing style is overwhelming? (I know MINE is, no need to point that out)

    If people have trouble understanding it, then reading comprehension must really be at rock bottom.

    I agree that formatting is important with l proper text length, but this is literally two lines, this isn’t in need of bullet points.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      5·
      3 days ago

      If people have trouble understanding it, then reading comprehension must really be at rock bottom.

      If 90% of people have bad reading comprehension then it doesn’t do much for anyone to point that out and stick to the way you are writing instead of making it understandable to everyone.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 days ago

      OP’s last paragraph contains three question marks and essentially one question - the first is their actual question with the following two being escalating statements. If you threw this into a work email with five other questions some people’s brains would seize up and just refuse to answer more than one question because they’re not certain if there are six or eight genuine questions.

      In life and especially a professional setting we’re interacting with people in the top 1% of communication skills… and the bottom 25%.