Amazing how the huge development in communication technologies hasn’t improved some people’s ability to listen.

Have phone conversation with someone during the week to explain can’t come to a meeting. It happens to us all at times surely?

Get email from said person, of course copied into a whole number of people who don’t need to know anything about it, asking me to confirm attendance.

It shouldn’t be, but it’s surprisingly irritating - not just the refusal to listen to what’s being clearly stated (and the reasons), but also that a very senior person gets copied in.