Uncommon Sense

The term "common sense" has always irked me when dealing with serious communication. Serious communication, as I define it, is a large emphasis on the level of detail and quality of content for the subject being communicated. I think why I get irked is that all to often these features are lacking in the serious communication I encounter, mainly at my workplace...

At my job everyone there is well enough educated about the work we perform. However I find all too often this leads to an assumption that not as much detail is needed when making new requests for projects to accomplish. In the past this has lead to either poor quality of work or a need to go back and get more information on a project in question. All to often when I speak about the lack of detail or quality in serious communication I get defensive responses that I should have more "common sense" about things. I generally do know what someone is talking about when they request a task from me. However I don't like to do poor work and I do like to be well informed about what they want in the task. I don't think that is too much to ask...