the exhausting frustration of having complex and vitally important ideas that you need to communicate to a person in order for necessary things to get done

except it’s a person who has multiple communication barriers with you…. the most obstructive one being “this person is a manager, and therefore only ever learned to listen to other people by selecting five random words from the first sentence the other person speaks, and then filling in the rest with extrapolation from their own brain’s concept of what they imagine they should be hearing right now”