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Unsubscribe from anything marketing related. F**k them marketing bitches.
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EMAILS - Hate them !! on 15:47 - May 18 with 1395 views
It’s the work related ones that get me, your cc’d in on almost everything as people are lazy! Go on holiday and come back to about 200 odd, it’s really stressful and you need a holiday to get over it!
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EMAILS - Hate them !! on 15:57 - May 18 with 1375 views
Endless email after email then the endless texts, endless social media new threads, endless WhatsApp group messages that could be taken out of the group , it never ends…..
Wonderful idea but used by humans. So bound to fail.
Never write an email on emotion. Keyboard warriers who hide at home and blame public officials for all their woes
It should be easier to cut out spam (ive reaxhed rhe li Ot of email.address i can block... wtf? There shouldn't be a limit
I refuse to read school emails on a point of principal. My colleague in the room next door used to email me and then had to 'storm in' when she hadn't received a reply. Got a little bit hairy when the principal got involved, but I hung in there and now get physical visits or text message notifications which I don't mind.
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EMAILS - Hate them !! on 08:15 - May 19 with 545 views
I changed jobs fairly recently, a consequence of which is that when i get into work I have maybe four or five emails, as opposed the fifty or so I would have had previously. I cannot tell you how big an improvement it is to my life, I honestly hadn't realised how stressful i found having so many little nagging reminders of things I hadn't done or needed to urgently attend to.
I used to work with someone who's research was in this area, he described emails (and other work notifications - work whatsapp groups now a growing trend....) as a digital leash, keeping us tied to our workplace 24/7, he was fairly convinced it was a calamity for mental health.
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EMAILS - Hate them !! on 08:55 - May 19 with 474 views
People sending you an e-mail, then 'phoning you shortly afterwards to ask if you got their mail . Why not just 'phone in the first place if it's so urgent? Honestly!
If busy at work, I find it best to set aside specific blocks of time to deal with mails. This avoids your concentration constantly being broken by the steady stream of incoming mails. If someone needs you urgently, they can send an instant message or - gasp - actually ring you.
I suggest turning off all new e-mail notifications - the ping but especially the floating short preview thing which shows you some of the mail's content as it arrives in your inbox.
As others have said, unsubscribe as much as you can. The average e-mail generates about 0.3 grams of CO2 as it sits on a server in an air-conditioned data farm, so best not to have umpteen expired "special offer" mails languishing in your already cluttered inbox .
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EMAILS - Hate them !! on 10:15 - May 19 with 327 views
The problem with emails is that it puts the onus on the recipient rather than the sender, it's basically YOUR fault/problem etc if you don't reply, completely regardless of the content.
I had one recently where someone sent me an email with a few people on copy, the conversation went back & forth a few times then someone else on the copy said to me "Juzzie (well, they didn't say Juzzie) please can you remember to always add xxxx on these conversations". I replied "this is your colleagues email, it's your colleagues responsibility to ensure the appropriate people are on in the first instance or have the presence of mind to add them in later on if needs be". Cheeky fkker.
People weaponise them too by CC-ing senior staff as if it's going to act as a trigger for you to react quickly. Well, one person fuked themselves up recently because they were so desperate for something to happen they CC'd the MD thinking I would go "oh, my, the MD is on copy, I'd better drop everything I'm doing and sort the problem out'. Which I didn't. The thing is, the problem was caused by them and in their desperation to get it resolved, by CCing the MD they just alerted to him they caused the problem in the first place. What a dimwit, talk about lack of awareness. No idea if anything came of it their end (I suspect the MD didn't even bother reading it, and nor should he).
Funny thing is, we occasionally do company "email awareness" courses and everyone agrees to all of these kind of things then it just carries on the same.
edit: when someone replies not on the last email but from one a few emails previous therefore losing all the conversations between those two and then, weeks later, trying to make out that they weren't told something when they were but they effectively removed it from the chain.
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EMAILS - Hate them !! on 14:43 - May 19 with 46 views
I refuse to read school emails on a point of principal. My colleague in the room next door used to email me and then had to 'storm in' when she hadn't received a reply. Got a little bit hairy when the principal got involved, but I hung in there and now get physical visits or text message notifications which I don't mind.
I use colour coding on outlook, so if i'm in the To line, I'll read it, but if I'm CCed it comes up in orange and ill read it at the end of the day
Instead of colour coding, all emails I'm CC'd into are sent to a folder. I open that folder when I have time. If people chase me on them, I respond I was only CCd so no expectation of action on my part.
I do this through a rule and have a similar one set up for spammy emails. Any email with the word 'unsubscribe' in the email gets put in a folder called - unsurprisingly - unsubscribe. I empty this VERY occasionally. When you first set it up, you might need to add a few exceptions. Otherwise, t works brilliantly. Last emptied in January it has - at time of writing - 7801 emails in it.
My inbox is currently zero. I process emails 4 times a day - first thing, mid am, lunch, 4pm. All emails are dealt with at that time. Only open each email once, deal with it. If it'll take longer than a few minutes, put it into the calendar as an activity and deal with it as part of the day. All emails are then filed outside the inbox folder when completed.
Don't use the reading pane - it distracts from which email is next.
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. Why not just 'phone in the first place if it's so urgent? Honestly! 
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