Rants about the use of email

[daerlyn.livejournal.com]

Dear Afternoon Shift Manager,

I really, really, REALLY fucking hate it when you do not answer my emails. I know you get a lot emails in a day, because you are the shift manager. However, there is no excuse for this particular situation in which you a) sent ME an email asking me to do something for you, b) did not come pick up the stuff I did for you for a week, c) ignored for TWO DAYS the second email I sent you asking you if you still needed it, and then c) forced me to go to your boss and my boss to get you to READ YOUR FUCKING EMAIL. I don't know if you don't like me, or you think the work I do is not important because it is not directly related to moving merchandise out of our warehouse, or you have issues with women or what, but I have a job to do, and if my job does not get done because I can't get information or cooperation or even acknowledgement from you, you will eventually find that your employees cannot work. Why? Because based on the information I get from you (which is to say, none), none of them actually work here anymore, so I will be inactivating all of their system logins.

No love, just lots of frustration,
Me.

I go through this every time I send this man an email. My next email is coming to him bundled with a punch in the kidneys. I swear.

We also have a contractor who apparently was mauled by an MS Office cd as a child, because he refuses to use his email account for anything. Look, I tell people to send me emails requesting help/services/production aids/whathaveyou because email means everyone in the department gets it, so if I am too busy or have an aneurysm before getting to it, someone will take care of it. I tell people not to phone me, because I will forget to do things that I only have a verbal record of. And coming into my office with your request scribbled in illiterate chicken-scratch shorthand is right out. After I told him not to do that anymore, he started sending people from other departments to my office with his requests instead.

This could be so easy. Why do they have to make it so damn hard?

Comments

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

*nods*
good hint. send mails with "HIGH PRIORITY" and set his manager on copy the second time you send the mail ;)
that will give him an idea

[daerlyn.livejournal.com]

*sigh* If only. Departmental policy already has us copying all shift managers and their superiours on emails of this type. He still manages to ignore me until I go into shrewish fishwife mode.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

If you're using Outlook over Exchange, send him a meeting request, with reminder, or better yet, a Task: "Come pick up your crap".

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

The guy I was talking about in my post below would ignore meeting requests and tasks too! He was very adept.

[daerlyn.livejournal.com]

I'm with meg. If he didn't manage to ignore this too, I'd be shocked.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had to work with a guy who would never answer his email, either. Or his phone, or his instant messenger. He would only respond to you if you could catch him in his office, which he was never in.

Naturally, he has since been promoted, and I have since been sent back to Tier I helpdesk.

[klytus.livejournal.com]

Of course he was promoted - he's just like all the other limp-dicks in upper management. Birds of a feather and all that.

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

Pitty :(
theres one in every company...

[trazan.livejournal.com]

But email is evil! Eeeeeviillll!!!
Wombat