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Through no fault of my own, I’ve somehow been promoted to a role that’s 60% project management. This screenshot is my daily reality now and I feel like I’ve been trapped by my own success.
“project manager”… the corporate version of the brick breaker game. But with emails instead of a ball and paddle.
Get paid $5000 for a job, hand it off to an engineer claiming that you were only being paid $700 which you’d split 50/50 and then pocket the rest?
Peter principle?
Same and I know this feeling and it sucks lol
This is so real. Just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable.
RIGHT?!
Well - if you get another response requiring action, maybe the first email wasn’t thorough enough :P
Have you never met someone who completely lacks the ability to know when to shut the fuck up? Who just keeps things going forever?
Well you have now. Hi.
Strange. It’s if the person just to responded to another comment, right?
That’s why you time replies to go out at the end of the day. You press send and get to tick it off your list, but It’s not your problem again until tomorrow at the earliest.
Do we work together?
When I hate this but I’m also guilty of doing it
The religious doctrine of the Church Of Inbox Zero is very clear that this is a zero sum game.
Leave unread till ready to process it. It should not matter when the email arrived.
Only open the email client when ready to process mails. Disable notifications.
Hell yea work/life balance
Spend two weeks fretting that I keep forgetting to phone my mum. Eventually remember at the right time and call her up.
All is good.
Hang the phone up and realise that all I’ve done is reset the timer on how long it’s been since I remembered to call mum.
They will soon learn that, due to scheduled send, they will receive their reply at 7:59am the following business day regardless.
Sweaty email tactics have no power here.
Someone else is clearing their todo list, too.
But you put it on my list, and I don’t want it to remain there, either!
Sorry it’s gonna be another two weeks I’m busy. *click*
Oi! How dare you call me out like this,
Yeah people who reply immediately to email are weird. Do they not understand that every mode of communication has a different need of immediacy to reply? If a face to face has the highest followed by phone calls, IM is in the middle and email is right at the bottom together with letters. If I write you an email I expect a response within a few days not a few minutes.
Just because I reply immediately does not mean I expect a response immediately. If someone emails me when I’m able to immediately respond, I’ll sometimes get the response out of the way right then. But email is asynchronous. I don’t get mad if I respond immediately but then I don’t hear back for quit awhile.
Exactly this.
I think the people I work with regularly eventually figure this out when they see my reply times varying from 3 seconds to two weeks lol
Email is for archival, IM should be banished. It’s completely useless, steals your time, steals your focus, it’s plain shit. I wish we could go back to emails and phonecalls only. People are way more hesitant to call someone, plus it’s super easy to just set a phone to silent.
I often reply immediately to emails because I want to remove it from my mental load.
Why should I delay my answer because miss princess got her head smoking?
Think about it: There are persons outside of your 4 homeoffice walls.
