>>> When talking with executives,
>>> especially in writing, brevity is important.
>> It's important because the dicks can't read.
> 
> Actually, in my experience, that's not the case.

What I've found is that in my company, the people at the top find this 
obsessive need to feel in control of *everything*. They will not 
deligate even the tiniest, most insignificant task to anybody else, 
because then they wouldn't be "in control" of that task, and that would 
make them less important.

The result is where every time anybody anywhere in the company wants to 
buy something IT-related that costs more than $100, the IT Director 
himself has to personally approve it. If anybody in IT wants to take a 
few hours off work, the IT Director has to personally approve it. If a 
printer anywhere in the company is low on toner, the IT Director has to 
be personally notified. And so forth.

The net result of this is that the IT Director receives roughly 900 
emails *per day*, most of them nothing to do with anything. And the 
result of *that* is that if you send the IT Director an email of more 
than about six syllables, he'll read the first sentence and send a reply 
to that - which usually result in him asking a question which is 
answered two lines further down the email you originally sent.

This is severely exasperating.

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