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[–] Amilo159@lemmy.world 79 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Not just professors, some engineers do that as well as it annoys the hell out of others.

Like, I asked you a detailed question with 3 issues, all numbered and requiring separate feedback and you reply me with "Sounds about right to me".

Like gtfo.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

If I ask more than one question, and someone answers one of them, my opinion of their intellect drops considerably. From that point forward I will communicate with them like a child, and written communications will take 5x longer because messages have to be restricted to one question max.

[–] kubica@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

And now you have to pick up your flipped table from the ground.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had a manager more than once that responded with "y" for affirmative and "I'm ignoring you" was no. One of those guys said if he didn't get back to you in am hour resend or track him down because he didn't read "below the fold" in his inbox (this was when we used email for everything).

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That's hilarious... by "below the fold" do you mean anything outside the message preview, example:

Smith, John

Re: Discussion with Client A

Hi Mike, I wanted to hear your thoughts on...

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If he had to hit "page down" in the Inbox folder to see your email, he wasn't going to see it.

He owned the business and it was right at the tail end of that time when if you wanted a web site you had to deal with some guys who were probably taking you for a ride, didn't care about customer service, and charged based on their mood that day. Having lived through that brief era, I am glad it's in the rear view. I didn't like treating customers like that and did my best to not do so!

[–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Should have used simple "Yes" instead

[–] sebi@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sent from iPhone

Every professors signature responding to my carefully crafted email

[–] eee@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This happens in every company as well. The lower down the totem pole, the more legible your emails.

New guy sends a carefully crafted, 6-paragraph email with context, analysis, decision point, options and recommendations, summarising a month's worth of work.

CEO's email, sent during another meeting: "ok. mak sure bob knows so it dosen't impact projext wildebeest"

The new guy has to scramble to figure out who's bob and what's wildebeest, and it turns out the CEO meant Peter instead of Bob

[–] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Are people really using GPT to turn brief emails into paragraphs of waffle?

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Some people, sure. It’s usually more something like β€œrewrite my (casually written) text to sound like a professional email” and ChatGPT is gonna add all the business lingo fluff.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What a terrible way to waste everyone's time.

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah but seems more of a cultural issue than ChatGPT's issue if businesses expect emails to have a certain form.

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

The recipiant just copies the message intp chatGPT and asks it for the summary.

Its like a shitty cypher

[–] gogosempai@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's becoming mainstream these days:

Sender uses ChatGPT/Copilot/Bard to turn content summary into a big professional Email.

Receiver uses ChatGPT/Copilot/Bard to break down the big professional email into summary.

Time is saved but what a wastage of electricity (LLMs need GPU computation for faster output)!

[–] jscummy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Is time saved though? Sounds like two useless steps have been added, with an extra layer of translation that could cause misunderstandings

[–] Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've used it to cut my emails down. I am way too verbose.

I am waiting for a corp account so I can do this. We aren't supposed to use the personal account at this time.

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

I use it to rewrite my rants as formal letters to our landlord.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I use it to do the opposite, reduce my word count, and change the tone to helpful instead of frustrated and angry.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 years ago

Probably.

I've seen a lot of junior staff who don't know proper email etiquette put a lot of formality into their emails. It isn't a stretch to get an AI to add it for you.

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol I use ChatGPT to convert HR professionnel sounding emails into bullet points

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crazy, because HR used ChatGPT to turn bullet points into a professional sounding email.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Eventually growth will be supported by a whole industry of chatgpt talking to chatgpt. It's the new consulting business.

[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I can whip up a multisentence corteous mail in 1.3 secs without chatGPT and not even bat an eye. Courtesy of working in a huge company.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

This is me, but for every email I receive that's over 2 sentences. I don't know if it's because of my ADHD, but I know it's not normal.