Yes, thank you so much. I totally wanted and have time for a scavenger hunt + jigsaw puzzle. Clearly you understand enough of the issue to know that I need to handle it but can’t be bothered to spend 45 seconds to summarize the relevant bits.
Yes, thank you so much. I totally wanted and have time for a scavenger hunt + jigsaw puzzle. Clearly you understand enough of the issue to know that I need to handle it but can’t be bothered to spend 45 seconds to summarize the relevant bits.
I have a filter that checks for “Fwd:” and immediately trashes it. If you cant be bothered to format even the subject line, you’re a lost cause. Cut down significantly on useless shit from my parents especially.
I have like 150 other filters that sort messages into folders, trash others, and immediately permanently delete others. My inbox now has 1-5 messages in the morning, and usually 1 or 2 throughout the day, vs the like 25-50 daily. Having unique email addresses for each recipient is great too, since if you unsubscibe from some garbage and it doesn’t actually unsubscibe (fuck you, AT&T Business), you can just blackhole it and it’s gone.
I prefer email to texting or calling, since there’s less expectation of a rapid response, but I got tired of getting so much garbage all the time - and I was already actively trying to keep my inbox clean 15+ years ago.
Sounds like a senior engineer at a company I had to communicate with on the daily. I was supposed to report tech issues and problems directly to him, since they refused to assign my area any actual techs and instead gave the regional. I swear if you used any term that seemed to imply the request would be difficult or time consuming the email would be marked as read, then marked as deleted with no reply. Then when a followup was requested “I never got anything”. There was a few times higher ups would get pissy at me for an issue not being resolved, I would just show them my outlook that clearly showed the “email deleted” tag on the email indicating that it was read, and then trashed again and they would go complain to their managers about it.