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by nuancebydefault 1336 days ago
Ivwould feel a bit offended if somebody would send me screenshots withoutva word of context. Often times the explanation of the context is a big part of a solution to a problem, or even shows the problem to be non existing.
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I've only been working with the person about 6 weeks. I didn't think too much about it at first, though it did seem odd and unhelpful. It's only in the past couple of weeks that I've started to find it irritating, and yes, offensive. I will probably bring it up to the lead at some point.

By the way, I double-checked my assertion that he doesn't use words, in case there were some documents I forgot or had missed. Nope. At best, his diagrams or screenshots will have captions. Those captions remind me of the sort of useless comments we've all become conditioned to ignore.

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