Just because sending email is easy doesn't mean that you shouldn't think before you send. You know the people who I am talking about. The ones who send you those stream of consciousness e-mails or even worse, you send you one e-mail, then another 1 min later, then another, then another.
Yesterday, I sent an example to four co-workers for some advice. One of the recipients must have been checking her e-mail using a blackberry or something, because I immediately got a message back saying that she wasn't logged in right now so she couldn't see the example and that she would look at it in the morning. However (remember she can't seeing the example), how about I do this? Then I swear not 30 seconds later, she sends another e-mail with a different suggestion.
I appreciate the willingness to help, but what's the rush? My e-mail wasn't urgent. It could certainly wait another 18 hours. Ugh!!!!
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My little pet-email-peeve is when someone uses the subject line as part of the content of the email. I HATE that.
To make it worse, my mom does this a lot. I'll get:
Subject: What are you doing
Email: this weekend?
I'd rather her ask the full extent of the question in the subject line or just ask it in the body of the email.
I get the people who send me an email and then call me three minutes later to tell me they sent me an email. And they tell me whats in the email.
i get the people at work who refuse to use email and instead will go to each person and repeat the same information over and over or print something out for everyone rather than email (where it can be filed for future reference)
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