Reasons you might not respond to an email
I started this list as a way of working out my frustration over people not responding to emails I sent. Writing out these reasons has helped me to better understand where people are coming from, and I've realized that *gasp* I have even been guilty of some of these!
Reasons you might not respond to an email:
Which ones are you guilty of?
Reasons you might not respond to an email:
- you skim and ignore anything not life and death, because....
- you have too many emails
- you consider email to be a lower-priority form of communication
- you think emails are like bulletins: info only.
- you are too lazy to develop an opinion.
- you are too lazy to type their opinion.
- you don't care about the topic or event.
- you forget to go back and reply to an email you read the day before.
- you assume that no reply means "No"
- you enjoy the power-trip of holding the sender in suspense
- your computer doesn't work
- you don't have access to email
- you don't check email often enough, so....
- you don't see the email way down in their inbox.
- the event under discussion is past.
- you share an email account, and someone else has already opened the message, so you don't notice it.
Which ones are you guilty of?
Labels: Personal philosophy
1 Comments:
- you thought you had already replied to an email
(i do that more and more... think i've already replied and then realize a few days later that, no, in fact, i did not...)
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