Anyone else get ungodly amounts of email at work?

[Mackie2k]

This is just my inbox.....doesn't even show the 50 folders nested below I have mail filtered to....and I just deleted 4000 emails.

:thumbsdown:

 

[nageov3t]

yes... when I sign-in after being gone for my weekend (Thurs-Sat) I usually have +10,000 unread emails.

but I have tons of filters and rules setup and there's only ever a couple dozen that I really need to read.

the rest are mostly automatic notifications (that I'll glance at, but only care if I start getting a flood of failure notices) or stuff that goes out to the entire company that may or may not be related to me (there was cake in the kitchen on Thursday? great to know as I check my email Sunday morning)

 

[AreaCode707]

I get about 400-600 emails a day that I need to actually attend to.

 

[emptyshell]

I typically get 800-1000 emails a day. Probably 300-500 I need to read with the rest being automation tasks.

Typically when I leave for vacation I just put all my unread emails in the archive and pretend I never got them.

 

[Kadarin]

I have well over 60000 unread emails in my inbox.

 

[rcpratt]

I get probably 20-30 a day, most of which are actually important.

Some of you need to get that shit under control.

 

[rivan]

I get probably 20-30 a day, most of which are actually important.

Some of you need to get that shit under control.

I get about 2-3x that many, but about the same number are important.

Some people I just auto-delete, which gets me into trouble from time to time.

 

[xSauronx]

several hundred a day, but 95% of those are notifications of backups and the like.

 

[FoBoT]

not anymore
you can train people to stop emailing you

 

[Bateluer]

not anymore
you can train people to stop emailing you

Shrug, 99% of my email comes from auto-generated DBs, tools, and other systems. Only a fraction from real people, and only a fraction of that directed specifically to me and not a group distro.

 

[AreaCode707]

not anymore
you can train people to stop emailing you

I'm in the midst of working on that. I've been revising our ticketing processes to ensure fast turnaround time and quality responses, and steadily decreasing my email based helpfulness. The goal is to convince everyone they're better off going to ticketing (where we can load-balance questions) rather than contacting individuals.

 

[Printer Bandit]

i get about 10 emails per day and make > $100K. jealous?

 

[Linux23]

no.