How man emails do you deal with professionally?

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As it pertains to your job email, how many emails do you get in a month (disregarding spam)?

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Voyce

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That's why I said Disregarding Spam, if you're not actually reading the emails, its not relevant.

I can't setup rules, for emails that need immediate responses, where I'm not going to notice them drop into a sub directory in a far left pane.

I can't setup rules for the morning results of jobs that have negative confirmations, (theoretically if the email were setup specifically I could ignore positive confirmations but they're not so I can't). If I ship something to a folder that get's forgotten, the notification is effectively worthless.
 
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Aldarion

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lurkingdirk said:
I have to say there has been a dramatic drop off in emails in favour of texts. I like it.
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what the actual fuck. Texts are worse in every way than emails.

1. you still have to type your reply, but now its on a goddam tiny screen with no actual keys instead of a normal keyboard

2. While theres a few raging faggots out there who expect you to respond to emails within minutes to hours, most people understand that 48 hours is a reasonable expectation. With text messages, people literally expect a result in minutes.

3. While there are still quite a few people who write emails in an actual human language, with capitalization, grammar, and punctuation, texts almost always look like they were written by an illiterate 11 year old with ADHD.

4. Emails don't make my phone ding, because I wasnt a fool enough to start carrying around a government surveillance device in my pocket at all times when they came out.

Fuck texts instead of emails, that was the worst thing I read in this thread
 
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Aldarion said:
what the actual fuck. Texts are worse in every way than emails.

1. you still have to type your reply, but now its on a goddam tiny screen with no actual keys instead of a normal keyboard

2. While theres a few raging faggots out there who expect you to respond to emails within minutes to hours, most people understand that 48 hours is a reasonable expectation. With text messages, people literally expect a result in minutes.

3. While there are still quite a few people who write emails in an actual human language, with capitalization, grammar, and punctuation, texts almost always look like they were written by an illiterate 11 year old with ADHD.

4. Emails don't make my phone ding, because I wasnt a fool enough to start carrying around a government surveillance device in my pocket at all times when they came out.

Fuck texts instead of emails, that was the worst thing I read in this thread
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No. I answer texts when I want to. And they provide enough information to know if actual person to person contact is needed. If not, brief text back, and all done.
 
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I get 200-300 a day and I have to read them all, not respond to all, but very few of my work emails are spam or things I can disregard. Doing email takes up a significant fraction of my time.
 
Phazael

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I am a bridge person in IT (sort of escalations meets system admin) and I get 60-70 a day that I am directly responsible for that I have to read, respond to, and possibly spin up into internal tickets. I watch about 3 inboxes other than my direct one. Then there is the 100ish a day that I randomly get tagged into because some idiot VP thinks I will get out of my lane and fix shit that does not come through propper channels, but most of those I file away without reading.
 
McCheese

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Between 500 and 1000 every month, depending heavily on the time of year. I used to get a lot more every day. We've recently started using Teams for things that would have previously been a one-line email. Fuck texts. I don't want anyone from work knowing my phone number, let alone sending me messages outside of work hours. I don't have email or Teams set up on my phone for that exact reason. I work when I'm at work.
 
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My personal and work email is the same. I get probably 10 emails a day but on average probably 1-2 of those are anything I would read and I have to respond to maybe 3 a month, give or take.

EDIT: Just looked at my outbox and I have sent 9 emails in January, but 4 of those were forwarding because my email was put down instead of my brother's so I was getting emails that were for him.
 
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Aldarion said:
what the actual fuck. Texts are worse in every way than emails.

1. you still have to type your reply, but now its on a goddam tiny screen with no actual keys instead of a normal keyboard

2. While theres a few raging faggots out there who expect you to respond to emails within minutes to hours, most people understand that 48 hours is a reasonable expectation. With text messages, people literally expect a result in minutes.

3. While there are still quite a few people who write emails in an actual human language, with capitalization, grammar, and punctuation, texts almost always look like they were written by an illiterate 11 year old with ADHD.

4. Emails don't make my phone ding, because I wasnt a fool enough to start carrying around a government surveillance device in my pocket at all times when they came out.

Fuck texts instead of emails, that was the worst thing I read in this thread
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Right...my job implemented Slack and I actively “forget” to login to it everyday. Forcing someone to email me. Fuck texts though that would just go forever unread.
 
Mist

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I would never respond to an actual SMS text from work except that one time that it was my boss panicking because he forgot I had a dentist appointment and thought I ghosted the job for another company.

But I definitely enjoy using things like Slack/Teams on my phone to answer simple questions since it means I don't have to always be at my desk.
 
Kirun

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80% of my work day is spent responding to e-mails and awaiting responses. I really wish the Boomers could figure out fuckin' Slack, as much as I hate that POS.
 
Mist

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grumblethorn said:
Teams?!
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Slack is better for straight messaging/chat.

Teams' strength is how well integrated it is with the rest of O365. Outlook calendar directly in Teams. Simultaneous multi-user editing of SharePoint docs from directly in the Teams interface, etc.
 
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Khane

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Teams is actually a very good product because of the integration. It's also got very good multi device support.
 
Fadaar

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0 at work. Sure a lot of company wide e-mails but ones specific to me that I need to deal with? None unless I e-mail myself pictures from my phone.
 
Voyce

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Just going to get worse…

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