3 posts tagged “email”
It seems everyone - from top management to lowly office worker - is being reprimanded about abusing email and it's being done alphabetically. Since I'm at the end of the alphabet I'm patiently awaiting my reprimand and fate. Some people receive administrative suspension meaning they're suspended on paper only and it remains on their personnel file but they lose no pay. Others are suspended with loss of pay for anywhere between 3 and seven days. Yet others, receive nothing but a verbal warning.
The offenses are equally all over the place: some are for simply forwarding an email, others for sending porno email, others for sending volumes of frivolous emails and finally others for saving questionable emails. So I don't imagine myself remaining unscathed because I have read and sent joke emails. So for now I sit and stare at an empty email box and basically feel lonely all day!
A week later and I still have over 150 emails in my inbox with no end in sight. I stopped paying attention to it about Thursday of last week and decided to do only what I could and focus on keeping my desk current. I really don't know how other folks, who receive hundreds of email daily, sort through and reply to it without becoming overwhelmed.
I think it's also important to recognize which form of communication - phone or email - is best suited to completing a task. Not everything has to be emailed and CC'd up the Nile to everyone in the corporation. Some situations will take six emails to accomplish what one phone call would've required.
Flexibility is crucial to maintaining openness and accessibility. If a person is known to respond only to email, it becomes very limiting and the person viewed as less approachable. Not very good for upward mobility or becoming a team player, right?
Anyway, just my thoughts as I reflect on office politics and negotiating the morass that is office relationships.
Returning to work after a weeks vacation is never fun or remotely easy. I work in an email culture. Everything is done via email. So for me voice mails aren't the challenge.
I had maybe seven voice mails and 197 emails. I simply must ask, how does a person on vacation with vacation notification activated get this many emails???
When I receive such notification I don't email the person again. I take note and go about my business contacting others in the department if it's absolutely necessary. Geez, it took me three hours to sort through them.
Oh and I know the catch phrase is "C.Y.A. - Cover Your Ass.", but is it really necessary to CC: the vacationing employee? By the time they return, everything's past, no one gives a darn, so why spam the hell out everyone with your bloody CC's??
And the number one faux pas fellow employees commit......leaving new work/stat requests/alert notices on my chair. Do not under any circumstance leave crap related work on my chair. Put it on the desk. Put it on the floor! Do not - do not - put it on my bloody chair.
Other than this, twas a fine day indeed! LOL No wonder folks dread taking vacation as much as returning to work.
