Happens all the time. Just be honest. Although I have the security of being in a job where I’m pretty sure nothing is going to happen to me unless I willfully kill someone or take cocaine at work or something. There are people who have been caught doing borderline fraud/double billing at work or leaving work quietly half way through the work day regularly; and the organisation’s response was “we told them not to do that again”. A missed task doesn’t get anyone in trouble.
I had way too much going on to keep up with my emails. Then I went on holiday for 2 weeks and had a really busy time at work for 2 weeks with no time to check emails. Since then I’ve had a constant backlog of 500+ emails I haven’t even looked at. I’ve set up a filter to put emails from my bosses and critical senior people into a seperate folder and answer these emails. Besides this I basically haven’t even looked at anyone else’s email for over 6 months. Nothing bad has happened so far so I guess it really doesn’t matter that much if I check my emails and ignore all those tasks coming through there.
Here’s the status boss: “I forgot this existed”.
Happens all the time. Just be honest. Although I have the security of being in a job where I’m pretty sure nothing is going to happen to me unless I willfully kill someone or take cocaine at work or something. There are people who have been caught doing borderline fraud/double billing at work or leaving work quietly half way through the work day regularly; and the organisation’s response was “we told them not to do that again”. A missed task doesn’t get anyone in trouble.
I had way too much going on to keep up with my emails. Then I went on holiday for 2 weeks and had a really busy time at work for 2 weeks with no time to check emails. Since then I’ve had a constant backlog of 500+ emails I haven’t even looked at. I’ve set up a filter to put emails from my bosses and critical senior people into a seperate folder and answer these emails. Besides this I basically haven’t even looked at anyone else’s email for over 6 months. Nothing bad has happened so far so I guess it really doesn’t matter that much if I check my emails and ignore all those tasks coming through there.