Despite all my writing digressions in the social media world, I like written workplace documents to be straight to the point. Actually, not only written documents but verbal reports as well. They can be humorous. They can be witty. They can contain an illustrative anecdote. But they should be factual, informative, and concise. There are times when I have received 300 or more work emails in one day (that weren’t RSVPS etc). I don’t have the time. Nor do I have the patience for work communications that meander. They can be lengthy. I don’t mind a long email as long as it is long because it is providing all the necessary information to make a decision. That is actually quite excellent.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone sends an email expecting a decision yet you end up sending 20 more to get a complete picture. If you need a decision to be made, provide the why, how, when and who of the situation. Context matters. How can people not get that? What is even worse is when the subject line of the email is uninformative and completely off topic. I don’t know whether email communication is taught in schools. If not (or even so) perhaps human resources departments should take 20 minutes of onboarding (orientation) to explain review email etiquette and informative forms of communication. Those 20 minutes can go a long way towards minimizing those work correspondences that are unnecessarily 20 emails long.
Categories: Psychology, society, work, workplace, writing
psychologistmimi 
It Depends if You Want the
Red or Blue Pill as Humans are No
Longer Focused on
One Task the Green
Pill of Nature is in
Prison For Metaphor
This is the Revenge of
The Nerds And
Zuckerberg and
Others are the
God Nerds of
This Simulated
Fiber Optic
Connected Reality
Human’s will Resist
As Cat Pics
Will Defeat
Zuckerberg
Robots now
Meanwhile Yes
Do the Best You
Will With the
Tools that have
Become Us
Away
From
Cigarette
Breaks and
Human Gossip
Around A Water
Cooler Connection
True i too didn’t
Understand
This
Until i
Escaped as
Social Life
At Work didn’t
Seem Best by my
Book then Either
Many People today
Only really connect
To Folks at Work Root
Issue Disconnected
Really Lonely for so
Many Humans Now
Soon enough Artificial
Intelligence will Fix
The Human Factor
PERFECT PRODUCTIVITY
WILL then rule the DAY
As
night..
Hehe the
Answer while
Rarely Feasible
Is
Just
Dance And Sing
And Ask Some
One to remind
You to Break to Eat…
Note that’s only
3 Tasks
To Do In
A Day Now..:)
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I’m not even working, and I have the same problem. Spent twenty minutes this morning trying to get through to a person who emailed ME and yet blocked my reply.
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Oh my. Why would they do such a block? Eek
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I’m so with you. I also have very little patience for ongoing emails about non work related things. For example, someone will send the entire staff a picture, or meme, or video link, then someone else will hit “reply all” and comment, and then someone else will do the same, and then my email is getting flooded all day. I’m all for having some levity at work, but I think there should be a limit.
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Oh my. That’s horrible. That irks me beyond…
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