One of my pet peeves is when someone sends out a large email to a large number of people.
This is what happened to me at work yesterday. The IT group has provided a method of sending emails that have large attachments, but no one seems to use this method, as it is takes too much time to complete this task. Anyways, we are limited to 150 Megs of space on our email account. Someone thought it was a great idea to send out a 10 Meg email. Now this is not a big deal, but when you send out an email that is this large to everyone in the company, this will generate stupidity. Not only will this generate 20 – 30 replays with the customary “get me off this list,” “I don’t work on that project,” but some of these guys reply to all with history. So this generates even more large email chatter. This has a habit of basically shutting down the email system for the company as these "real men of genius" go on and perpetuate this wrong even more by responding to all telling the first guy to respond to sender instead of all. They don’t even follow their own advice… it is amazing sometimes that our company actually make money.
I thought we were done with this yesterday, but all the guys that were on vacation or were away from their office yesterday are back into their office today and are now jumping on the bandwagon. What’s helping to raise my ire today is that the only way that I was able to get my PC to work again was to shut down the system. Of course, when I turned on the PC my email system was above the allowed amount and I was in what I call email jail. Email Jail is when one cannot send out email until they reduce the size of their email account to below the limit. Once this is done, you need to clean out the trash and close the application again. This can take five minutes to accomplish, and hopefully no one has replied to all again. I basically didn’t do anything for an hour as this issue got resolved.
What a waste of time...
This is what happened to me at work yesterday. The IT group has provided a method of sending emails that have large attachments, but no one seems to use this method, as it is takes too much time to complete this task. Anyways, we are limited to 150 Megs of space on our email account. Someone thought it was a great idea to send out a 10 Meg email. Now this is not a big deal, but when you send out an email that is this large to everyone in the company, this will generate stupidity. Not only will this generate 20 – 30 replays with the customary “get me off this list,” “I don’t work on that project,” but some of these guys reply to all with history. So this generates even more large email chatter. This has a habit of basically shutting down the email system for the company as these "real men of genius" go on and perpetuate this wrong even more by responding to all telling the first guy to respond to sender instead of all. They don’t even follow their own advice… it is amazing sometimes that our company actually make money.
I thought we were done with this yesterday, but all the guys that were on vacation or were away from their office yesterday are back into their office today and are now jumping on the bandwagon. What’s helping to raise my ire today is that the only way that I was able to get my PC to work again was to shut down the system. Of course, when I turned on the PC my email system was above the allowed amount and I was in what I call email jail. Email Jail is when one cannot send out email until they reduce the size of their email account to below the limit. Once this is done, you need to clean out the trash and close the application again. This can take five minutes to accomplish, and hopefully no one has replied to all again. I basically didn’t do anything for an hour as this issue got resolved.
What a waste of time...
posted by Fe Man at 6:51 PM
2 Comments:
Sounds like the people in charge need to up make some changes to your email system so there can be more productivity.
We have 5000 employees over 100 mile area. . . we can't save nothing. . . and everything disappears every week. If there is a limit of file size, I've never seen it, but it sucks because you have to print everything you want to have for documentation.
Ciao
Thanks for the info. I cut and pasted your entire rant and sent it to everyone on my email list.
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