I may possibly share a similar rage to Rakky
LACK OF UNITS!!!!!!!!!!
I spend a fair amount of my life reporting stuff to the government. I need information from various sectors of my (rather big & complicated) organisation. I don't know the ins & outs of the individual bits of information which go together to make this portfolio of information that I have to submit, and I make this ABUNDANTLY clear when I'm asking for this information to be sent to me. However, there are certain people who assume that I know a) what order of magnitude they are referring to and b) what units I'm reporting in. Makes life awfully difficult and has always been a bugbear of mine since school. "Elephants and mice, dear Whodathunkit" I remember one science tutor chastising me. Oh, that and getting the SI units wrong on documents that are being sent around the company. I had to tell a more senior member of staff the difference between m & M recently. The turd wouldn't believe me until I extracted the relevant pages of Wikipedia. Despite the fact I have a relevant degree (i.e. a scientific one) & he has a degree in farming or something (pls don't flame me for being farming-ist - I'm him-ist). Grr
Now I'm getting mad. I may have to post the litany of crappness I've had to endure with said individual during the 8 years I've had to work with him. Aah, ok, he may well be my pet peeve.
( Whodathunkit, Fri 2 May 2008, 21:24, 1 reply)

I
agree completely. I'm doing a chemistry degree and the number of times we get given equations with a new constant without units in or where they haven't stated if what unit something should be in (yes, I know, always SI but is is chemistry so you do get the odd weird one floating around) makes me weep.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Fri 2 May 2008, 23:04, closed)