As is the case with most workplaces, email etiquette is the new buzzword in mine as well. Everybody seems to have woken up to how atrociously slow we are while responding to our mails.
But out of all, but what I detest most about corporate e-mail is:
- ASAP: You believe in it, others ignore it
- The Wolf Phenomenon: Boss ignores your e-mail because you mail 20 times a day
- Forced recipients: If it is there, might as well (ab)use it
- Ignorance is bliss: Read it before you ask for it, again!
- E-mail or snail mail: I send, but you don’t get, really?
- To each its own: Why write the e-mail message in the subject
- E-mail not chat: Do you spell? Why use ROFL, LoL, AFAIK (as far as I know), u, pls, gr8!
- Black is beautiful: It’s e-mail, not graffiti
Got some of your own?
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 12:19 am
Insightful post.
As for me, the aspect I hate most about e-mail is the sheer volume of it that I receive every day. Newsletters, reminders, release notifications, bug reports, doc reviews etc all total to about at least 100-150 a day.