Please don't call me right after emailing me

[Triumph]

Who here is guilty of doing that? If you do, you suck at life!

 

[DnetMHZ]

I more enjoy the people who hit send then walk over to your desk...

"Hey!, I just sent you an email!"

 

[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.

 

[Linflas]

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.

Then why bother with the email if you are going to then go and talk to them directly?

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: Linflas

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.

Then why bother with the email if you are going to then go and talk to them directly?

Because the email leaves an electronic paper trail so that there is a record of the fact that I did in fact deliver the message to the person. It's a way of playing CYA. With the email the person receiving it can't say I never told them. I hate that I have to do it but sometimes with certain people, yes you have to make sure they are doing their job if their actions can reflect back on you. Plus there are some people with whom I'd rather not converse on a face to face basis more than just to say, "Please check your email promptly, I just sent you an urgent message."

Then there's stuff that you just can't communicate verbally. . .like for example I frequently send application stack traces and dump logs to other developers and the only way that stuff can be effectively communicated is for them to see it with their own eyes. . .Would you want to verbally communicate something like the following?

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: getMessageData
at com.ibm.mq.server.MQSESSION._MQPUTMSG2(Native Method)
at com.ibm.mq.server.MQSESSION.MQPUT(MQSESSION.java:2427)
at com.ibm.mq.MQQueue.putMsg2(MQQueue.java:1550)
at com.ibm.mq.jms.MQMessageProducer.sendInternal(MQMessageProducer.java:1582)
at com.ibm.mq.jms.MQMessageProducer.send(MQMessageProducer.java:1022)
at com.ibm.mq.jms.MQMessageProducer.send(MQMessageProducer.java:1056)

 

[Ramma2]

That, and people calling me and leaving me a message to call them back. For the love of my sanity, leave what you want in the message, so I can get it, THEN call you back? Thats like writing someone an email that says "Hey when you get this email, email me back."

Arg WTF!@

 

[bignateyk]

Emailing and then going to talk to someone is normal...

 

[CptCrunch]

hey, did you get that thing I sent you?

 

[Fritzo]

LOL- I have a couple of morons that do this all the time. In fact, everytime I see them, the first thing they always say is "I just sent you an email about...", and then I say "Well, why did you send an email if you were going to come and tell me about it?"

Then they go away and the whole thing starts over in an hour.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

my mom does this all the time, but not immediately. she will email, i will respond immediately, then a couple hours later... 'not sure if you got my email, i sent one earlier'

 

[skim milk]

yeah a girl I worked with did that
she would send me an email and IM me an hour later asking if I got it

but she was hot so I didn't mind at all

 

[Soapy Bones]

I dont mind people calling/coming over to ask me if I got an email but for the love of god at least give the system time to SEND it to me. When you are calling me saying "Oh I just sent you something" and it hasnt even shown up in my inbox yet that is too much. When you come over to my desk saying oh I just sent you an email - GIVE IT TIME TO GET TO ME and give me at least 2 minutes to read the thing before you show up.

The whole point to email to me is that I can send it to someone and they can read it when they get time. If it's urgent I will call them anyways or if I do send an email i will give you time to read it!

 

[bonkers325]

if its important then i will call to make sure the person received it

 

[bharatwaja]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
my mom does this all the time, but not immediately. she will email, i will respond immediately, then a couple hours later... 'not sure if you got my email, i sent one earlier'

This....

My mom wouldn't have checked her email after she's emailed me (to which I would reply within a matter of minutes at most) and she'd call me an hour or so later with "I was just checking to see if you were O.K., I sent you an email dear...." but I love it when she does that, makes me miss her a lot...

Anyways, it's pretty annoying when OTHER ppl do that, unless its a truly urgent thing....

 

[Tremulant]

This morning one of my bosses sent me and e-mail and immediately sent me an IM saying that he just sent me an e-mail. And then he repeated what he had typed in the e-mail in the IM window.

Yesterday someone submitted a help ticket and immediately came over to my desk. After I finished helping her I saw the help ticket notification.

 

[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?

 

[Pacemaker]

If it is something that is urgent, and cannot be communicated well by speech (error messages), or is easier for the receiver to have it emailed (URLs, documents, etc.) then I email it and walk over (or call) to make sure they know it is urgent.

If you want something truly annoying how about those people who send every email as urgent. I've gotten to the point where I don't even notice the ! outlook puts next to these messages because people overuse it.

 

[Spineshank]

A lot of people at my job do that.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
I more enjoy the people who hit send then walk over to your desk...

"Hey!, I just sent you an email!"

This actually makes more sense. For instance i send you a document then walk over to talk to you about what you need to do with it or whatever.

 

[Turin39789]

it's because no one trusts you to do your job and wants to not only leave a record of the information in their email history, but also want you to actually start working on it right away instead of neffing.

 

[bharatwaja]

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?

Different scenario/implication.... To make sure important emails are received and the paper trail is maintained, I guess that's ok...

Originally posted by: Tremulant
This morning one of my bosses sent me and e-mail and immediately sent me an IM saying that he just sent me an e-mail. And then he repeated what he had typed in the e-mail in the IM window. Yesterday someone submitted a help ticket and immediately came over to my desk. After I finished helping her I saw the help ticket notification.

I guess this is exactly what the OP is so annoyed about....

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

They want to make sure you got the memo.

 

[dabuddha]

Whats worse is when they email me, then walk over to my office to let me know they emailed me. By the time they get to my office, I've already sent a reply back but they insist I just tell them what I sent in the email since they're already there.

 

[imported_Imp]

I don't do that... much. If I do, it's usually to discuss the stuff in the message or attachments.

 

[oogabooga]

I work in tech, it's normal to email a bunch of logs/screenshots/whatever and then walk over and ask "Wtf is this"

I sometimes get this with important emails - questions about time off/vacation that I want to take, questions I need to research and answer promptly. It's not abnormal me thinks - doing it for every email would suck though I guess I can imagine that some people would be bored/anal enough to do that.