"The brain is' a wonderful body: how to work the moment you wake up in the morning and not stop until comes into office "(Robert Frost)
Dear colleagues, I can not take it anymore! The use of email and work of the various associated tools are taking the outlines of a savage abuse. A few years ago I received 10-15 e-mail per day, now fly to peaks of 150 per day. emai I receive for each nonsense, maybe by my colleague who is a few meters, often to tell me things that could very well be said aloud. Because email is a test! Verba volant, scripta manent! E 'proof of the "I've told you and I have fulfilled my duty to tell you," or the "I saved your ass!" The perversion is that in Outlook, you can request confirmation of reading. Do you realize? When you open this pop-up that says "The sender requests a read receipt for this message" it's like when you come home a letter with return receipt ... oh my God what will it be? A penalty, a notice of guarantee? No. Just a few colleagues who want to make sure you read your fucking post. Oh, and mind you: Outlook also allows you to set the default option "request read receipt for every message sent." Typically, the colleague who wants to spring up your ass then set the default option and this will be a wonderful folder with all receipts. So even when the aforementioned colleague asks you via email "what time do you go in the cafeteria today?" There will prompt Read! And when you have instead said something very important for fast and you clicked the "Send read receipt" and then for whatever reason you do not have time to read all the email (because attention: the read receipt is required to open the message when it is impossible that you have already read): tac! The friendly fellow you pour on the responsibility of each subsequent happened by saying: "I told you so but I ..." and with a smile: "I've also sent the read!" But heck! With 150 emails a day, if not to spend more than four hours to read them (which are still so many), this means little more than a half minutes to read each single email ... if you really want to read your emails straimportantissima maybe anticipatemelo voice and make sure you respond in a meaningful way rather than just with the read receipt. And if I do not, instead of waiting for the moment of lustful inchiappettarmi storing in your briefcase fucking all my read receipts, come to me very important that you remind me of the email sent surreptitiously. And here I am beginning to talk about another obsessive-compulsive mania that is taking place within the email would seem to work: the use of the red exclamation point that Outlook can be affixed to the side of the email object to identify it as " important ". Since in this case, the exclamation point can be placed by default on every email, now all the emails that have come the damn red mark. So are all important!?! And with a read receipt!?! Aaaahhhhh! So anyone who wants to be more important than others, writes the message subject in CAPS. And I find the whole list of emails in uppercase and can not understand anything because then I the only one that leaps to the eye is the advertising of viagra written in lowercase. So someone who wants to be more in evidence in addition to the object code: IMPORTANT - followed by the object. Or URGENT. Until you get to the hysteria I've seen in recent days: Urgent, SUPERURGENTE well-URGENT-URGENT URGENT. But enough! It turns out that all your emails with blood-red exclamation marks, capital letters threatening prefixes and eschatological, read receipts to be facing in the ass, I do not read them anymore. Here, if something is urgent, no emails! It is you! E 'urgent that you submit to a psychiatric examination as soon as possible! Sincerely. A colleague.
