'Ok' my ass

There are people who totally destroy a well-thought-out and well-constructed email. I mean, there you are energetically typing away – creating a structure and flow to your ‘message’; making sure sentences are clear and concise; making sure paragraphs are rightly paragraphed (you know what I mean) and that the closing paragraph is a perfect summation. Then you do a quick look-over to check for red squiggles under words and hit Send.

I’m not being biased when I say the emails I speak of were laden with much sense and much information. I will admit that much of my writing lacks those two elements but honestly, my work emails usually have useful content. Seriously. I lie not.

Anyway. About the destruction of these emails. It drives me up the frikkin’ wall when all I get in response is: “Ok.”

OK??!? Are you kidding me?? Just an ‘ok’?! I don’t even get the complete ‘okay’ – it’s the two letter short form. I mean, did the idiot not read the questions? Did the fool not skim eyes over the whole section where I’ve listed the issues which needed attention? No. Just ‘ok’. Ok what?? ‘Ok I read your email’? ‘Ok I’ll get back to you one day’? ‘Ok your email is here and ok we have these issues and ok I’ll do something about them’? What ‘ok’ dammit??

And it’s a common disease – this ‘Ok’ thing. Whenever this happens I do land up wondering why the client asked for a ‘detailed overview’ of something when he/she wasn’t going to pay much attention to any of it in the first place. I mean, as far as I’m concerned, in cases like these, an ‘Ok’ is equivalent to a ‘fuck off’ amongst friendly enemies. I am not friendly with my clients. We-e-e-ll, most of them anyway.

‘Ok’. That’s how it goes. Now I write way less of such emails. Over the years, I’ve learnt to curb my word obsession. I’ve reined it in slightly. It does my sanity some good because otherwise, such monosyllabic responses would just have me pulling my hair all the time. Now I only pull my hair a few times a week. Much progress that is.

Other than me reacting to curt emails – there isn’t much to life that I could tell you about. *shrug* What can I say – I’m bland, blah and boring. All that seems to be happening in life is a steady dose of Nothing. Either that or I’m just used to insane, hair pulling, blood sucking, nail biting, ass kicking deadlines and projects. *shrug* I met an interesting guy who I scared off with my psychotic-ness. *shrug* But it’s okay specially since I noticed he wrote ‘than’ in an email when he meant to say ‘then’. Tsk tsk. Yeah, I’m a judgmental bitch. Get over it already. Also, Chivas is being ignored these days – just not feeling it. Must be that then – I’m just dead sober and brand spanking clean. *shudder*

Sheesh.

04/04/08; 9:38am