Generally I try to keep the tone of my posts on the positive side but I need to take a moment today to complain. I work in an office and there are two aspects of email that drive me crazy.

The first is the obligatory “thank you” email. I’m aware that there’s a certain etiquette that goes along with using email in an office setting but enough with the “thank you’s” already. You sent me an email requesting something and I responded. End of story. I don’t need a “thank you” email that I’m just gonna delete anyway. I’ll just assume that you appreciate anything I do for you and move on.

The second aspect is even more foul than the first, overuse of “Reply to all”. I’d like to strangle the programmer that invented this functionality. Or maybe I should just strangle the people that don’t know how to use it. Spam is a big enough problem when it comes from outside your company, don’t make things worse for your co-workers by injudicious use of “Reply to all”. And by injudicious, I mean pretty much at all. Tis very rare the occurence when “Reply to all” would actually benefit an email communique. It usually just spawns more unnecessary emails. Avoid it like the plague.

Thanks for listening, please resume your regularly scheduled browsing.

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