I need to smash something. Why won’t some people just read? When messaging colleagues at work, I put effort into writing out everything clearly and concisely in order to minimise back and forth. But people just won’t read. I tell them A is precisely this. Then their next question: so precisely what is A?
Do people get secretly paid for exchanging more messages?

Well, we are talking about a whole generation of people that have a ever shortening attention span. Where it's a common design warning that you have to caption the attention of a customer in 5-10 seconds...

Image what pain it is for them if they have to not only read your message, but comprehend it! Oh the horror. It's clearly easier to offload that work back to you so you explain it again with less detail... Or to schedule a call apparently, that also works for a lot of people...

It's annoying as hell

tldr

;-)

That's why I don't care much about my typo's or English quality. People who fall over that aren't my type anyway

A) are these devs or other roles?

B) are your messages longer than 3 sentences?

I personally find at my company most devs are good at Slack (or equivalent work chat) but some other roles - like sales and design are awful at it, cause they usually don't communicate among themselves mainly via text - and when they do talk about tech stuff they get very uncertain cause they imagine they don't know the terminology so they'll ask every question again in a rephrased way.

(This shouldn't be an excuse - they should be able to handle it as they work for a tech company 🤷 but it's what I've experienced)