Enter us not...

[Larry Gude]

...into temptation, but deliver us from e mail.



A person I work, a client, with just told me that. He is a person that if you want responsible, diligent, accuracy, honesty, integrity, common sense and every other good thing you can say about a person in a business, that's him in triplicate. Uses and loves computers. But...

He HATES e mail.

 

[vraiblonde]

He HATES e mail.

How would he prefer to communicate? Surely he doesn't want to sit on the phone with people all day.

 

[MMDad]

I know people who would rather email than open their door and walk to the next office. If they could, they'd never actually talk to anyone. Email is cold, impersonal, and open to misunderstanding.

It is also vital to ensuring understanding and providing a record of events. I'll talk to someone, then follow up with an email to document the conversation and allow corrections.

There's a "right" amount of email use. Some people do overuse it, and that's probably what is behind the "hatred" of email.

 

[SamSpade]

...into temptation, but deliver us from e mail.



A person I work, a client, with just told me that. He is a person that if you want responsible, diligent, accuracy, honesty, integrity, common sense and every other good thing you can say about a person in a business, that's him in triplicate. Uses and loves computers. But...

He HATES e mail.

I slightly understand that. I hate instant messaging on my machine, and I always turn it off. Nothing's more annoying than to be working on my desktop, only to find myself typing into the messag buffer because some twit wants to talk to me on the computer when they can just as easily reach me by phone. Worse, there's the dreaded note at the bottom telling me they're about to do it AGAIN - which means rather than work at my own job, I have to wait till they're finished typing because they're going to interrupt me again. Sometimes, just to say ..thanks...(and another)..have a great day...

 

[SamSpade]

It is also vital to ensuring understanding and providing a record of events. I'll talk to someone, then follow up with an email to document the conversation and allow corrections..

And that's where I prefer it - recently we missed a request from a in-house client to run something, because he mentioned it in passing in a meeting to our boss - who left for the weekend early. It never got done. A reminder e-mail would have alerted any of the rest of us to complete the job.

 

[Larry Gude]

This...

I slightly understand that. I hate instant messaging on my machine, and I always turn it off. Nothing's more annoying than to be working on my desktop, only to find myself typing into the messag buffer because some twit wants to talk to me on the computer when they can just as easily reach me by phone. Worse, there's the dreaded note at the bottom telling me they're about to do it AGAIN - which means rather than work at my own job, I have to wait till they're finished typing because they're going to interrupt me again. Sometimes, just to say ..thanks...(and another)..have a great day...

...guy is the controller and he works in a hyper speed, low drag company that borders on the insane 24/7. I e mailed the president, worked out a little deal, he cc'd to this guy and replied to me and cc'd to another need to know person. And my guy, Mr. I hate E mail, is a one task at a time person and does not want to be playing whack a mole with every e mail that pops up. I think he checks it once or twice a day. I totally understand because he MUST be orderly or this thing could fly off the tracks and kill everyone and every thing from here to Richmond. So, a quick phone call, a good/good, is this a go?

Done.