Something so simple to anyone else here in the office is an absolute aggravation to me! I constantly get e-mails from superiors on a daily basis asking to do a specfic task, but I am supposed to play Psychic Friends Network to guess who they want me to do it for.
Today's e-mail has a subject line with a homeowner's account number in it. The e-mail body says "send her an account history". No past e-mail history was attached to it.
I deal with various different people everyday. I work for a management company. We have homeowner's associations we do business with. There are office personnel here in accounting, managers that deal with specific properties in the homeowner's association, & people within the homeowner's association that act as governing body (board of directors) that live there.
So I get this e-mail... my mind starts pondering for like 10 minutes. Is it a board member that wants this? Is it a property manager that wants this? Is it a homeowner that wants this? Finally I give up the battle and mail the homeowner. The I e-mail the person back saying I mailed it to the homeowner and I hope it's correct.
My #1 pet peeve is that everyone assumes I can think ahead. I 100% lack the ability to have any forethought. I think here and now & am incapable of predicting what should be done next. I get so tired of hearing "you should have ___". When they give me a task, people have to give me detailed instructions otherwise it ends up done how my head thinks it should be done. Then I have people treating me like I am retarded. GRRRRRR!!!!
I know how you feel - my boss has a real talent for leaving out pertinent information when he is giving me a task. If I don't ask him a million questions, then I won't get all the info I need. Then of course I have to remember to ask the right questions! I feel so dumb when I have to go back to him later.