[abathur]

Thanks for explaining my life to me.

I am glad you know that I don't really have people schedule meetings right after getting an email in which I (and others) have to explain the content of said email before we can do anything productive.

Now that I know everyone who schedules a meeting to have someone explain an email to them actually read and understood the email it makes total sense that they ask questions that betray a complete lack of knowledge of anything beyond the general topic.

I would expect someone who read the email to be able to form a question that builds on or slices into some concern the email addressed, but now I know that feigning ignorance is just their way of showing how much they appreciate my time and opinions.

My life is materially improved. Thanks!

[notahacker]

I assume that response wasn't intended to convince me I was entirely mistaken in considering the possibility that you (and others) would ever jump to the wrong conclusions about people's intentions, but I hope you found the experience of writing it cathartic anyway.

[abathur]

Of course it wasn't, because it's obvious you won't be convinced.

None of this was about intent. You projected that in. I can tell when someone didn't read the email. It isn't about people who are scheduling the decision session before reading the email but ultimately do it. It isn't about people who read the email but have questions. It's about people who didn't read the email.

But you won't accept that I regularly have and correctly understand the experience. You're determined to take an internet stranger's personal anecdotal experience and read it as something that must be false if it isn't globally true.