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How do you explain to people that emails regarding leftover popcorn downstairs in the office and the like are not "high importance"? This gets my every single
by notyourwork 15y ago
How do you explain to people that emails regarding leftover popcorn downstairs in the office and the like are not "high importance"? This gets my every single time. I see the red flag and think interesting this has to be important otherwise why would they have added the flag and then sure enough get fooled every time. Perhaps I should consider the high importance flag to really mean this email is not important.
- epochwolf 15y agoAt my first programming job we had a solution for this. Everything generated by computer was filtered into a folder named for the application or mailing list that cause the email to be sent to us. My entire team did this. It meant that any truly important email from individuals or management ended up in our inbox instead of a folder. I had an additional filter set up so that anything labeled "high importance" was dropped into an "X-Important" folder. I would read those after I got bored reading the Marketing, Art Department and Support mailing lists.
- jerf 15y agoIt's not a "High Importance" flag, that's just what the label says. Evidence suggests it's really a label that says "I came from a secretary or HR". Why we need a special flag for these things in our email clients I don't know, but here we are.