AMD Phreak
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| What Grinds My Gears
So I was watching Family Guy last night and it was a re-run where Peter gets the job at the TV station doing the segment about what grinds his gears. I thought we could discuss this here... 
You know what really grinds my gears? When a user sends me a support email and asks for something and then ends the email with "Please advise."
What the hell is up with that? Please advise? Where did you learn how to end email messages, clown.....
And that, is what really grinds my gears.
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Nightfall
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What grinds my gears are the intolerant users and intolerant IT people who look down on each other.
The intolerant userbase that treat IT like a bunch of idiots. Then, when IT does work hard at solving their problems, the user then takes on the attitude like they knew what the problem was to begin with. Then you have the users who think they know everything, but they don't know half of what they are doing. Then, when they screw up, they blame IT for all their problems.
Then, on the flip side, you have the intolerant IT people. These are people who look down on the users as idiots. When a user asks a simple question and are honest when they don't know, the IT people like to belittle them with their peers or to coworkers. Instead of coming up to solutions on how to make their users better with computers, they choose to look down upon them as inferior.
Those are my complaints.
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donoreo
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I hate that damned "please advise" as well. It always makes me say WTF? It is even worse then they do a "please advice" 
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JoelC707
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Please Advise. I thought I was the only one who was annoyed by that. |
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AMD Phreak
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There..... I fixed my avatar. |
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B
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Actually the OP first wrote "Please adivse."
But while many things grind my gears (including assumptions that other people know anything about a particular TV show), "Please advise" just isn't among them.
It sounds like a perfectly reasonable request. Please advise me... on what to do next, on what the above means, on what you think. It's a perfectly valid way of asking for your thoughts on the matter.
Sure, it can approach the meaninglessicity (TM) level of a "sincerely" or "very truly yours", but so what? We know what they mean. It's certainly no worse than "ASAP" or heaven forfend "LOL". You know what I mean? Please advise.
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donoreo
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| It is actually a dumbass comment to make. The person is sending email asking for help, of course you are going to let them know, ending it with "please advise" is redundant.
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AMD Phreak
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May 14th, @11:42AM
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B, I fixed my spelling error just for you. 
You are so wonderful for raining on everything here.... hahaha |
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B
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BinaryXtreme
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Sparks, NV | reply to AMD Phreak
Ummm, you have not much to worry about in your life? Not all are as, versed as you clearly are. Maybe you should advise those people not to bother asking you advice if they can't follow email etiquette and watch your company go down in flames. |
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AMD Phreak
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I thought I'd start this post to laugh about. I knew I couldn't have been the only person here that thought "HUH?" when they see "Please Advise" ending an email.
Lighten up everyone. |
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sporkme
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May 14th, @12:38PM
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said by donoreo  :I hate that damned "please advise" as well. It always makes me say WTF? It is even worse then they do a "please advice" Just say "GOOD DAY SIR"!
edit: I think next April 1st Justin should modify the posting code so that every post ends with a few blank lines and then a "please advise...". |
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ptrowski
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AHHHH!!!! You have "please do the needfull"! That is one that grinds my gears. What is the "needfull"?
Another is this-
Me-Hi Raj, this is Dave from SQA, did I catch you at a bad time.
Raj-Yes, tell me.
Me-So I did catch you at a bad time?
Raj-Yes, go.
Me-Sooo, did I call you at a bad time?
Raj-Tell me.
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sporkme
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| said by ptrowski :AHHHH!!!! You have "please do the needfull"! That is one that grinds my gears. What is the "needfull"? It sounds dirty to me. It implies either something relating to sexual gratification, eating, or expelling a waste product. |
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B
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said by ptrowski :AHHHH!!!! You have "please do the needfull"! That is one that grinds my gears. What is the "needfull"? Another is this- Me-Hi Raj, this is Dave from SQA, did I catch you at a bad time. Never heard of "do the needfull" (?) -- also, it's misspelled.
But more importantly, "Me-Hi Raj" is a great name, perhaps befitting a superhero's secret identity.
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ptrowski
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| said by B :said by ptrowski :AHHHH!!!! You have "please do the needfull"! That is one that grinds my gears. What is the "needfull"? Another is this- Me-Hi Raj, this is Dave from SQA, did I catch you at a bad time. Never heard of "do the needfull" (?) -- also, it's misspelled. But more importantly, "Me-Hi Raj" is a great name, perhaps befitting a superhero's secret identity. -- B "Do the needfull" (sp) is something I hear quite often when speaking with Indian consultants. I will see on an email "review my resume and do the needfull".
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May 14th, @01:10PM
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I think "Please advise" is appropriate when the customer describes a situation where action is needed, but the implied "question" is too vague to properly phrase. I think "please advise" is more professional than "Any ideas?" or "Suggestions?"
You want to know what really grinds my gears?
1) People who send an email asking to "call them", without bothering to give me SOME idea of what it's about or what I'm in for. I don't need a novel, but some hint of what it's regarding. I'd like to know I need to allocate a couple hours or if it's a 30 second quick question. It's especially annoying when said person is chronically difficult to reach.
2) People who are too self-important to call me themselves, and instead get several other people in the company to call me on their behalf. How many people need to be involved? |
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B
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Must be something like "do the Locomotion". Do a happy peppy dance as you move the resume to the wastebasket.
Also, in your above exchange, it does seem Me-Hi Raj told you to get out of his or her face:
Me-So I did catch you at a bad time?
Raj-Yes, go. -- B
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ptrowski
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| said by B :Must be something like "do the Locomotion". Do a happy peppy dance as you move the resume to the wastebasket. Also, in your above exchange, it does seem Me-Hi Raj told you to get out of his or her face: Me-So I did catch you at a bad time?
Raj-Yes, go. -- B Nope. Me-Hi Raj is giving me the clearance to speak. |
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Drex
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May 14th, @01:13PM
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said by B :Must be something like "do the Locomotion". Do a happy peppy dance as you move the resume to the wastebasket. Also, in your above exchange, it does seem Me-Hi Raj told you to get out of his or her face: Me-So I did catch you at a bad time?
Raj-Yes, go. -- B I was a little perplexed at the response of "Yes, go.", but now with the intervention of B , I understand. He was telling you to bug off as in "Yes, go (away)."
Edit - Ok, given ptrowski 's response, I guess he wasn't telling you to bug off.
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