Please don't call me right after emailing me

[Fingolfin269]

I do this occassionally depending on the issue. The 30 minutes you decided to waste on reading mail forward funnies instead of prioritizing my work email could cost our company a lot of money.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: ahurtt
It is the best way that you can make sure somebody receives your message promptly if it is an urgent matter. I do this frequently because I know a lot of people in my office spend most of their time neffing around on ATOT when they should be working and they don't bother to check their email regularly. Sometimes I even walk over and let them know BEFORE I send them the email so that they will know to expect it and read it promptly. But I only do this for urgent matters.

this is why i use thunderbird's minimize to tray extension...

constantly downloading all my mail and alerting me when there's new stuff.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Pastore
Paper trail... I do it all the time to my coworkers because they like to play the, "Oh you never told me about THAT project", "I was supposed to do WHAT?"...

Also, email is not 100%, 100% of the time. So confirming an important email was received isn't a big deal. Why do you think read receipts were invented? Because people want to know when their communication is read.

Why is being sure someone received your email a bad thing?

So you have read receipts, and yet you go over and bug people anyway. I've been on the internet 13 years, and I've never not received an email that someone actually sent. What kind of craptastical email server is your company running?

The people I know who do this tend to be older, and for this reason don't really trust that the system works.