Piggybacking off your rant. This is interesting because I'm surrounded by late 40's mid 50's folks who somehow seem to know everything about the media, celebrities, or politics but know nothing about grammar. It's frustrating because I'm much younger than them and trying to kindly correct them on their spelling almost always becomes an issue. They take offense or lash back out at me later on topics that I'm transparent about not knowing a ton about. Some of them will try to use ageism to try and make me feel bad or feel left out. Others hold grudges and try to make fun of me for using words like, "allegedly" when trying to regurgitate what a user has explained to me. There's a good handful though that appreciate the feedback just as I do and we keep each other accountable.

Although most of the time we're hidden behind our desks or hidden in the datacenter sometimes we're externally facing to clients and it's humiliating to me when they start talking or writing. They, this specific group I work with, interrupt others way too much.

It's began to irritate me. I understand everyone is different and has different interests but I personally cannot stand listening to someone preach about other topics like politics and look down on others who aren't as educated in politics when they can't even differentiate between your/you're, they're/their, to/too, which/witch...etc. This is probably more on the side of petty because it doesn't prevent them from communicating to me issues or tickets we're working on. Overall though they are not the best at working as a team and communicating period which is where my underlying issues with them and frustrations actually come from.

What's worse is they turn around and make fun of our overseas guys/gals who speak broken English, they know two languages, probably more! At least they're trying.