People who come over to your desk at work and say
"I've just sent you an email ... "
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 13:19, 12 replies)

Or
People who send you an email and then phone 5 minutes later to see why you have no responded to it.
(GingerIrishTosser isn't dead yet., Mon 8 Oct 2012, 13:21, closed)

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it

( Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 13:23, closed)

My boss goes one better.
He's based 100 miles down the road, and phones to ask me about emails he's only just sent - chances are Send And Receive hasn't even picked them up yet - to ask if I've done them yet.
EVERY FUCKING DAY.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 13:29, closed)

^This!
Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggghh! A couple of my clients do this all the damn time and it's infuriating. They'll send me some documents by mail for a quote, then call me within five milliseconds of pressing 'send', despite the fact that my reply over the phone is always the same: "I'll have a look at the documents and send you a quote by e-mail."

Give me the time to read my frickin' e-mails, frickin' laser beams, frickin'.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 13:33, closed)

Depends on whether it's client facing
Normally putting in the details of *how* to do something during the email to your colleague is seen as amateur/rude by the client.

eg
Dear Joe Client Bloggs,
I'll make sure X is done today, with constraints X, Y, Z.

Randy Colleague: File is on (local location of file here) and constraints X, Y are just to make sure they give us ABC to do it. Client-contact G will get in the way, write "boobies" to get around it.

Regards,
me.

I suppose one option is to send separate emails or forward on an additional copy afterwards, but some stuff is just better in person.

-- edited to make vaguely readable
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 18:26, closed)

What language was that written in?
Some of the words look like english.
(ubergeekian, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 19:10, closed)

I'm not sure
I think it's a dialect of English called "sugar rush".

Perhaps this is why I come to people's desks afterwards...
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 21:40, closed)

They are the people who print their emails out before reading them.
(Maclir, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 20:56, closed)

I've done that often.
It's easier than recalling a huge URL, a set of instructions or a serial number -- it's also easier to email a document to someone rather than recite it to them verbatim. It's also easier to send someone an email to check through than it is to read it to them, and sometimes it helps to highlight to a colleague that they've been CC'd into an email they were waiting for or one which may incite an angry response.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 21:27, closed)

So you need to write your emails more clearly.
Coming 'round and telling me you've just sent me an email, and to discuss it, is the office equivalent of queue-jumping. Have I responded? No? Then I haven't got to it yet. Did you mark it as important? Yes? Then I will prioritize it.

It's trying to tell me that you're more important than the other people I deal with, and you're not - even if you're head of the company, or a senior manager - it's the little people that make the wheels go 'round - get back in your office and wait your turn.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 9:43, closed)

But I would have come over anyhow.
Not sure how it works in your place of work but all the places I've worked colleagues regularly walk over to each other to discuss things rather than relying on email alone. You must have a weird culture in your office if everyone's email gets queued and dealt with in order and you never get up to talk to anyone. Then there are "off the record" conversations -- would you really forward an email to a colleague with the comment "what is this stupid twat playing at?" knowing the email is recorded for ten years and can be accessed by a large number of people involved in the situation?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 20:31, closed)

People who send you an email from the desk behind you
With a simple question that they could have just turned round and asked. Arrrgh!
(fivetide, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 9:41, closed)