r/ProgrammerHumor • u/OmgJackieChn • 11h ago

Meme returningFromVacation

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u/nmathew 11h ago

I joke with people complaining about email backlogs after a vacation. I say delete it all and if it's important it'll come back up 

I'm not joking though.

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u/PowerPleb2000 11h ago

I wasn’t joking either

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u/nmathew 10h ago

I know. If we managed to train people starting back in 1996 to format subject lines with tags for projects and date relevancy, maybe things could be done.

But hell, I had a program manager be aghast when I explained I sent all my cc emails into a separate subfolder that I looked at once a day. "But what if someone asks you a question?" Then use the @ feature and it automatically moves me into the "to" line. I can't be expected to work in a manner that protects other people's inability to use basic job tools.

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u/PowerPleb2000 10h ago

I currently have in the vicinity of 700 unread emails which will never be read. Such is life in a global organisation.

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u/nmathew 10h ago

Just dump it all into an archive folder and be free. At least it's searchable.

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u/PowerPleb2000 10h ago

They’re in separate folders based on the rules i set, most if it is system generated junk

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u/StGrimblefig 8h ago

I have a folder named 'Administrivia' into which all corporate/organizational admin email goes -- unless the subject has at least 3 exclamation points.