Or people who start sentences with “Look…” as if they’re having to explain something for the third time to a slightly dim listener.
I’d not noticed that but it does seem to be a Westminster thing. The first person I noticed doing it was Tony Blair and more recently, all 3 hosts of the News Agents politics podcast (Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall)
Or a solicitor. I write this while seething in frustration, because after specifically asking an instructing solicitor to send me the papers (500+ pages) for our 12pm conference as one single paginated PDF bundle, she has sent them as 32 individual document attachments scattered, apparently at random and in no particular order, across 4 emails. Naturally, none of the documents have file names that would make it quick and easy to identify what document it is and what case it belongs to. This is a regular occurrence. It’s like dealing with a goldfish.
Funny ..... but obviously not for you ! It brought back a very distant memory from a course I did on Theory of Data Structures . The lecturer started off by saying :- " Imagine a new dictionary , written by a complete maniac , who wrote down all of the words in whatever order they occurred to him "
Excellent. I’m going to use/adapt that. Sending documents that way drives me absolutely potty, especially when I’ll be working from a screen. I’ve likened it to being provided with the individual chapters of a book, often not all at the same time, with no titles/headings, page numbers or any indication of what order they should be arranged in, and they have to be read by peering at them through a letter box.
I had the same when I was working on a PV construction project, the f*cktard of a QS sent 300 docs through in a gazillion different PDFs and e-mails as the file size was too large to send. I got my rant on and told him to use a drop box....He genuinely didn't understand (probably too sodding lazy), leaving me to sort and order them all. They walk amongst us.
Be my guest ..... by all means use it and enjoy ! ( just drop me a line to discuss the licensing agreement ) . © oldtech Intellectual Property ( Holdings ) plc Ha ha ha !
Nail on head - it's bone idleness and a lack of respect for the other person's time. It's the digital equivalent of just throwing the documents on the floor and walking off. Meanwhile, the cretinage continues here. My conference has been put back for an hour because despite the case centring on a significant dispute between experts (surveyors) about who is to blame for damp in a property, the solicitor did not send me the defendant's expert report, the defence or the questions put to the experts and their responses. Oh, and another thing, the other side made an offer to settle, with a deadline for acceptance of 17th January (after which late acceptance would have serious costs consequences for our side), yet the sol didn't even call my clerks to arrange this conference, the purpose of which is to advise whether the offer should be accepted, until 19th January. If brains were dynamite.......
For the Love of Gard ! Be wary of so-called "experts" in any field ..... be very wary ! The "expert" witness for The Crown in the Birmingham Six trial claimed to have invented his own unique and reliable test for traces of nitroglycerin on people's hands ...... and the court accepted it as gospel ! ..... and look what happened ! The main problem ( scientifically ) was that his test also gave 100 % positive results for Pear's clear soap ! PS - Big Up to Michael Mansfield for refusing to give up on those wrongly convicted people !
Have we had “oh my days” it just makes me want to hurt them when people say that or “Im not gonna lie” first thing I think is do you usually lie then?
Tell me about it... it does make you wonder what sort of chaotic state the original files are stored in? and it doesn't seem to frustrate them enough to spend time organising them. Yep, just pure lack of respect combined with no desire to be proud of themselves. I reckon if you went over there and ripped one of their limbs off and beat them half to death with the soggy end they still wouldn't get it. "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
Yep. One of the reasons I don't accept all the Covid and climate change alarmism at face value is that I spend a large proportion of my working life dealing with cases where two similarly eminent experts have looked at the same evidence and scientific data, yet have come to diametrically opposed conclusions which just happen to align with the interests of whoever was paying them for their opinion! Yep. I know him well. One of my lames to fame is that we did a case together in 2018 that made the front page of The Sun. I also went to his wedding and his 80th birthday party.
I do some consultancy work with a firm of sols who are actually pretty good in most respects, but I have to use their case management system and it drives me mad that nobody saves, sorts or names the documents properly. Hence, if you go into a folder containing correspondence in order to look for a particular letter, rather than just glancing at a list of Word or PDF files that labelled eg: "Smith v. Jones: Letter Re Witness Statements Deadline Extension 05.01.23", you'll be faced with hundreds of documents with file names such as "Untitled" or "Letter" or the file name is just a string of random letters and numbers.
