what is it with work emails ???

[Skittles]

I'm old enough to remember when we did not have email at work (by the way you youngsters, it really wasn't that long ago). As I recall we used to receive PAPER MEMOS. I don't remember receiving 20, 30, 40 memos EVERY F***ING DAY. WTF happened? Why the explosion of useless information?

[Kutjara]

1. I particularly love receiving emails....

...from people sitting five feet away from me. "Hey, jackass, see these things on the sides of my head? They're not just for holding my glasses up, you know!"

[fizzgig]

2. my boss emails me while i'm on the phone

he looks over his shoulder, sees that i'm on the phone and then sends me an email

if i'm on the damn phone, i'm not checking my email :banghead:

[Kutjara]

6. Yep, been on the receiving end of that, too.

Another favorite is the "hand grenade" email. That's an email that requires a lot of work, needs to be done ASAP, and is sent by a coworker or boss at the end of the day, as they run out the door.

[fizzgig]

11. i don't get those

my boss is usually decent enough to say that to my face as he's running out the door and then get pissy when i try to ask questions because he's trying to leave :eyes:

[Kutjara]

12. LOL.

There's the international variant of that, where coworkers in Europe and the Far East time their unreasonable requests so that they are home asleep when you discover they've dropped a bomb in your lap.

[fizzgig]

13. wow

i don't have to deal with those, thank gods...that's just damn low

[DS1]

3. Those emails aren't about sending you a message, they're about sending

you a message and cc'ing the manager so he/she can see them sending a message. It's kiss-ass and CYA all in one.

[Kutjara]

8. Exactly.

I just love having conversations with three people looking over my shoulder.

[Skittles]

10. OMG what about those ridiculous email wars?

you know, you get 10 emails with the same subject line because you were cc'd on an argument or whatever going back and forth between two F***ING IDIOTS

[Kali]

24. I love those - its like DU GD in real life

:rofl:

[mainegreen]

4. I love email.

Seriously.
I could not imagine working life back in the paper memo/phone call era.
How could you get anything done?

[Skittles]

7. we got PLENTY done

because we didn't spend half our time dealing with a G.D. INBOX :o

[skygazer]

9. Easy

You weren't reading/checking emails all the time.

[Kutjara]

14. Or typewriters. I mean seriously.

I had to use a typewriter in college back in the early 80s and it made writing term papers and theses a nightmare. The thought of having to go through my working life pecking stuff out on a typewriter would make me put a gun to my head. There's a special place in heaven reserved for the inventor of wordprocessing.

[mainegreen]

15. God. Filling out a form with a typewriter?

Madness!
Insanity!
Cats laying with dogs crazy!

:D

[Skittles]

21. I remember the old non-electric typewriters

tough on the fingers.

For the record, I wasn't decrying the invention of email - just expressing dismay at its overuse/misuse :o

[Kutjara]

23. I agree with you entirely about email.

Just yesterday, there was an article saying that 83% of email is spam and that the volume of junk email has incresed 100% since last year. There are 150-165 billion spam emails send every day. Add to that the "work-related" mails that are little better than junk, and it's easy to spend a large part of the working day just wading through crap.

[skygazer]

5. And "reply all"

I get emails from corporate sent to all the liquor department managers and there's always at least 3 or 4 who answer them and hit "reply all". Usually its info not even corporate needs and its certainly nothing I'm interested in. :eyes:

[mcscajun]

16. What happened? People don't get up from their desks anymore,

they don't bother with voice mails, they just send off an e-mail.

This shifts all the responsibility to you, without benefit of negotiations. Old Days, they'd have to get you on the phone, or walk across the office to talk to you, tell you what they wanted, see if you were available for the project, elicit your interest, discuss drawbacks or alternatives, and then you'd come to an agreement. New Days: "Hey, I sent you an e-mail. Is it done yet?" "Boss, I sent so-and-so an e-mail, and I'm waiting for ___________ (fill in the blank: an answer, the proposal, the report, the numbers.)

That's why e-mails have exploded.

[Skittles]

18. I think you are on to something there, mcscajun

perhaps the reason I didn't think of it is, I still behave in that fashion - I never, ever send a mail or even call if I can get up and walk to see the person

[crispini]

19. Well, but it also allows you to be very passive-aggressive about it.

"Oh, I haven't checked my email yet today. Sorry." LOL.

[mcscajun]

25. Yup. That, too.

I lived in the corporate world before e-mail, and after; I'm very happy I'm no longer in corporate. We have two PCs in the medical office where I work, and we don't give out our e-mail address to anyone, nor do we use it internally. :D

[Skittles]

27. or, "SORRY I HAVE 200 EMAILS I NEED TO READ"

yes

[mcscajun]

28. I hated that more tham anything: coming back from vacation

and needing 1.5 - 2 days JUST to clean out my Inbox; this despite "Out of Office" auto-reply.

I do not miss that.

[flvegan]

17. You know what I hate...Read Receipts

[Skittles]

20. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I ALWAYS decline those - WTF!!!! Maybe I read the email but DAMMIT those RECEIPTS smack too much of an IMPLIED ACCEPTED OBLIGATION - F*** THAT

[flvegan]

22. And the audacity to want a receipt when I delete their e-mail

Screw that "proof I read your e-mail" shit and double screw that "I just deleted your damn e-mail, so what" shit.

[Kali]

26. no shit - go to the post office and send a registered letter, asshole.

[wildhorses]

29. what kills me is the way they expect you to read them on your

days off :wtf:

pay me to read them!!! ya bunch of mofos :grr:

[Skittles]

30. I have to dial in and weed through them on my days off

I just cannot stand how many accumulate :(