With 15 million unemployed Americans that have already had their "careers" killed, is worrying about leaving a blank "Subject line" on your email your greatest concern?
Good list. But the biggest of all -- Read your email quickly. It is not only insulting to have somebody say they "haven't had a chance" to read your golden words, but it slows business down.
And "use email to set up a meeting". I get frosted when the first half of the meeting is devoted to explaining why the meeting. It makes for an easy day, going over stuff twelve times, but we are not paid to have an easy, relaxing day.
Signatures with phone numbers. Eventually the email might prompt me to call you to discuss something offline, follow up, or talk about another project. A phone number in that email signature makes it so much easier. (Granted my voicemail tells you that email is typically the best way to reach me and gives you my email, but at least you've got options.
I agree. Signatures with phone numbers and email addresses make a reply so much more convenient. A short signature on your smartphone email is so much appreciated.
My online essay pet peeve: People who don't match the title of their essay with their headers, relying on inline text that reverses their meaning.
If you read the title of this article, and then just read the bold-faced headers, you get a very different impression of what the author is trying to say.
I feel that point #4 in the article slightly negates point #2; in order to organize and contain long email threads on one subject, I save just the last email in the string -- and can then reference that email at a later date pretty easily. When the subject is changed by one of the email participants mid-thread, this process gets screwed up.
[And yes, I realize this is a personal email pet peeve since this is just My way of organizing and not necessarily the majorities way.]
Biggest annoyance: people who respond to my email with "thank you" or "thank you, I got your email." If I wanted a receipt and read notice, I would have marked the email with those options.
And worse yet, when the recipient sends back a "thank you" and uses the "reply all" function. What a great way to clog up everyone's inbox and pour more money into the ever-growing email server overload.
1) I almost always disable return receipts. I don't need you looking over my shoulder.
2) You apparently aren't aware of the number of Type A personalities who will freaking *call* you if you don't reply to their email within six hours.
3) Often email is part of a conversation. I like to let the other person know that I've read their email and we're done.
4) On occasion, an email requires work or research or simply time to compose a reply and I can't get to it right now. However, it's obviously something the sender cares about, so I'm going to let them know I've received it, and that I'm working on it.
Is it so hard to delete an email from someone who's taken the time to acknowledge you?
My email pet peeve is very simple: if you receive an email as a member of a group email, and you feel it NECESSARY to forward the email to people outside the group/company, have the courtesy (and smarts) to DELETE the group members email addresses (usually in the body text) BEFORE you forward (spam) someone else. Not doing so is definitely a career killer -- especially if the person who is getting the forwarded email decides to add all of those group emails to their future email campaigns...AKA SPAM. When someone does this to me and I find out, I simply blacklist the sender (and the company in some cases) -- and then end up wasting a ton of time blacklisting all of the resulting SPAM senders.
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You must all be GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES...
And "use email to set up a meeting". I get frosted when the first half of the meeting is devoted to explaining why the meeting. It makes for an easy day, going over stuff twelve times, but we are not paid to have an easy, relaxing day.
The search and grouping functions are entirely adequate to avoid those kinds of rules altogether.
billb
http://historeo.com
If you read the title of this article, and then just read the bold-faced headers, you get a very different impression of what the author is trying to say.
2. Blind copies. If it's worth saying, it's worth sharing.
3. Management by email.
4. Anything better handled with a phone call, or face-to-face, like a conversation
[And yes, I realize this is a personal email pet peeve since this is just My way of organizing and not necessarily the majorities way.]
And worse yet, when the recipient sends back a "thank you" and uses the "reply all" function. What a great way to clog up everyone's inbox and pour more money into the ever-growing email server overload.
1) I almost always disable return receipts. I don't need you looking over my shoulder.
2) You apparently aren't aware of the number of Type A personalities who will freaking *call* you if you don't reply to their email within six hours.
3) Often email is part of a conversation. I like to let the other person know that I've read their email and we're done.
4) On occasion, an email requires work or research or simply time to compose a reply and I can't get to it right now. However, it's obviously something the sender cares about, so I'm going to let them know I've received it, and that I'm working on it.
Is it so hard to delete an email from someone who's taken the time to acknowledge you?
(Agreed on the "Reply All" thing, though)
Philo
When someone does this to me and I find out, I simply blacklist the sender (and the company in some cases) -- and then end up wasting a ton of time blacklisting all of the resulting SPAM senders.