No email for you!Follow

Now, Samira. It's classist to be depressed by the very stupid.

I would have, but they are also the one that emails in regards to benefit changes and what not. Trust me, I'm trying to find a pattern to block her on though.

I never worked in that particular department. Sounds like interesting work.

Yeah, this is what I was thinking. Documents are often created by, reviewed and approved by lots of peeps. Tech-savy companies can probably share them in better ways though - email really isn't the most efficeint, or secure, way to send docs; There's the commentary, but you could text or message chat or video conference..or, you know talk in real life. Which is what they're getting at I suppose.

The accountability aspect, everyone having a running record in print of what everyone said, may not always be considered a good thing.

FOIA dictacts that we keep all work related emails, like, forever. Obsviously we're supposed to be cautious about what we discuss.

Only when you've dealt with gbaji for.... how long is it, now?

It's a long time.

In the legal field, my biggest complaint (and apparently it has become quite common with other paralegals) is that the attorneys have decided to go explore a tangent during some email exchange and not let the rest of the staff know what's going on, which leads to a lot of wasted time and effort on something that didn't need to be done. I was preparing a deluge of document production for discovery (and we're talking close to 10 boxes of documents that had to be assembled, organized and then Bates-stamped). Unbeknownst to me, the attorneys and clients started talking settlement. I was down to the last 2 boxes when I get copied on an email about the settlement talks. Or how about when I'm preparing some agreement and the parties decide to change the terms of that agreement. Wasted time preparing something that got changed mid-way. It's stuff like this that irks me, but I have to remind myself that my time is on the client's dime and my time gets paid, whether it's wasted or not. But it's wasted dollars in my mind.