What your boss didn’t tell you…
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2007 at 5:10 pm
My wife’s boss has left so she’s filling in along with her boss’s boss. She’s finding out all sorts of new things - for instance
“Do you get the emails?”
“No xxx (old boss) used to do that”
“I’ll show you how”
Turns out old boss didn’t get the emails - apparently 3 years worth is about 5,060 mails.
They were a bit worried about something very, very urgent that should have happened in June but when they realised it was June 2006 and the world still hadn’t ended they decided it couldn’t have been that important.
Maybe requesting a read receipt is worthwhile sometimes?
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Loading ...Comment by Jacques de Beer - October 8, 2007 on 7:59 am
Mmmm, working in a project environment with an “office” spread among several countries and continents, requesting delivery receipts and reading confirmations is more or less the only way to make sure that mails have not gone astray. Yes, it causes additional traffic; yes, you need to watch them carefully if they are to be useful; no, it is absolutely not a waste of time particularly for critical issues when you rely on an e-mail system to get things done.
Comment by Dave Eff - October 9, 2007 on 2:29 pm
Of course until we get a direct mind link that proves the recipient has read it and thought about it, things could still go pear shaped 
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