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Truth.
I’ve been in software development for 25 year at this point, and this is my #1 takeaway. No matter what it is, people won’t read it.
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I read everything, what’s wrong with everyone else?
I worked gate security at a baseball stadium. Right next to where I stood there were two huge signs reading “No Smoking” and “No Re-entry”. Guess what questions I got asked all day.
“you free tonight?”
I wish
A significant fraction of America is illiterate. 21% or 1/5. Yeah.
And yet, the documentation must be written
There’s this one guy in the office who were so adamantly anti writing documentation, he basically pored through the contract to find loopholes to state that doing documentation is not actually part of his job description.
I love it when uppity kids think they have a “job description” the allows them to not do things.
Your job is what the manager says it is, or you find a new one.
Weird, I read anything my eyes set upon without even thinking about it. Why wouldn’t you, unless you’re illiterate?
In my previous job i had to do a lot of coordination via email. I learned very quickly you can only ask a single question per email because very very few people would ever answer more than that. God forbid there was some semi complex task that needs done.
Ha! I just gave that advice to someone on Lemmy a couple weeks ago. They were having problems getting people do respond to stuff at work and I had to explain how the average person can’t track more than one subject in a single communication chain.
21% of American adults are illiterate.
When what’s written is in a language you can read, what’s up with that? Reading is free, so to speak, and it enables laziness by not having to find and ask people stuff
I’m not going to defend people that are too lazy to comprehend words on a sign.
What I will say, is that it took me entirely too long to look up when I was at the grocery store. One of my first jobs was at a grocery store and it took me far too long to notice the signs.
Writing is a passive system for conveying information. It requires active effort by the target. If the target does not want to engage with the information, there is nothing forcing them to unless you add additional systems external to the information.
This is why I follow every single text or email with a, “Hey, did you just see my message?” phone call.
Also people always only answer one question. Don’t ask two things at once. This is so infuriating.
What did I just read?
None of us know either.
