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Agreed.
A close relation of the "can you just..." is the work email tha begins "Dear /Hi [ ] I hope you are well"
The hate bit here is reserved for the "I hope you are well" as it is the pre cursor to the ball of shit task that is written beneath usually encompassing an impossible time frame or sitting on top of a ridiculously long email chain whereby the author of the email is too lazy to precis the requirement and just points you in the direction of a discourse the length of a bog roll.
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Tasks requests that start with “can you just…. ?”
Inevitably they will be tasks which are best done with two people but you are expected to accomplish them on your own and the person requesting is not willing to help.
It often feels that the “just” is meant to diminish the task and how long it’ll take. As if the time it takes to utter the sentence is the time it takes to do the job.
I just had to move a bird feeder pole. It’s in a muddy bird shit covered location so had to change clothes, take the bird feeders off the pole and yank it out of the ground.
When it was previously installed one person held a bit of wood on top of the post to stop the soft metal deforming. while the other used a sledge hammer to whack it in place. Of course without the second pair of hands the top of the post distorted, flared out and the feeder hangers couldn’t fit back on. So needed to dig out the angle grinder to remove the top of the post.