work email

[jim]

I'm in that 100+ email a day club too, easily. I have 59 unread in my Inbox right now, and I've probably read 100 today. And this is slow because of the holiday's. I often sort by name, and just delete from certain people because I know they almost never have anything to say that I need to know.

[Freed Roger]

Work emails that have a bunch of links and pointless graphics below the signature line, minor nuisance- they just get in the way. Especially if you are responding to one.

[Jocephus]

Work emails that have a bunch of links and pointless graphics below the signature line, minor nuisance- they just get in the way. Especially if you are responding to one.

about 2 years into this job i was forced to switch to a signature i absolutely hate. its big, yellow and black and stylized with my contact info and all the offices social media accounts like facebook, twitter, instagram...all this crap that i dont even use. i hate it

before then it was just 3 lines of text. name, title and phone number.

[Freed Roger]

Work emails that have a bunch of links and pointless graphics below the signature line, minor nuisance- they just get in the way. Especially if you are responding to one.

about 2 years into this job i was forced to switch to a signature i absolutely hate. its big, yellow and black and stylized with my contact info and all the offices social media accounts like facebook, twitter, instagram...all this crap that i dont even use. i hate it

before then it was just 3 lines of text. name, title and phone number.

Yeah, that's the crap. why are we spamming ourselves this way? Some of them even show up as attachments - so when I receive email with an attachment that I need, I have to open the spam attachment just to make sure its doesn't contain additional info I may need. Now much info goes thru secured portal links, and even there they blow you up the page with junk. [expletive] that noize!

[tlombard]

Now I'm laughing about the time one of my coworkers accidentally started an IM with the entire company. We're talking world wide. Thousands of people in 30+ countries.

Most people realized it was a mistake but of course you had your idiots who didn't and were asking what the meeting was about. And the people who got mad as if just needing to close out an IM would ruin their day. Finally you had the idiots like me and my friends who spent the rest of the afternoon chatting with a couple dozen people from around the world who happened to stay on and just BS with us. We discussed lunch plans, happy hour plans, weekend plans and just anything stupid. At one point things got a little out of control and weird. Somebody quoted Step Brothers and the next thing you know we're making plans to meet in the parking lot between buildings to do karate with boxes and pallets stolen from shipping.

I saved the transcript. It was highly entertaining.