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> I saw someone talking about their mother recovering from cancer and going urgently into the office to respond to this email. 1. You’re out of the office on e

• ZeroGravitas 2y ago
  Does an auto-response count? Are you willing to bet your job and healthcare on whatever your answer to that is? Plenty of federal employees do not have email access outside of their workplaces for a variety of reasons. and Musk has tweeted repeatedly about this, and even if he didn't an email threatening to auto-resign the entire federal workforce is going to cause a stir. This should be obvious to anyone. So, it's a stupid idea and you support it and it's not even the real reason anyway. And edit to address your edits: You appear to have forgotten that your claimed reason for this was to catch out people who don't check their emails. Now you're angry at me for suggesting these people exist, when my whole point was that if they exist this is a stupid way to catch them out.
  • imgabe 2y ago
    Yes the point is to catch people who are not checking emails. This is like the single most basic primary function of a modern office job. If you can’t check emails you should be fired. You are not useful for office work.
    • ZeroGravitas 2y ago
      It might be a language barrier but you seem to have trouble understanding basic points being made, or are pretending not to understand because your point was illogical. So I'll repeat my point one more time and then give up: This is a stupid and ineffective way to catch out people who don't read their email.
      • imgabe 2y ago
        It’s obviously quite effective or all the people who are not checking their email would not be crying all over the Internet about how they’re going to get caught by it. Literally send any reply. Elon was even replying to tweets about people sending AI generated replies saying that would be fine. It is less effort than your multiple replies to me explaining why people should not have to answer their work email.
        • MyOutfitIsVague 2y ago
          You're really missing the point. It's not that replying to the email is hard. That's never been the point. The point is that you got a new boss, and his new best friend who doesn't work for the company just sent you an email that says "Tell me 5 things you did last week or you're fired, also feel free to bullshit it or make an AI reply, lol". It's stupidly unprofessional and disrespectful, and not the way the company should run. Replying to an email is easy. Replying to an email by an outsider who is threatening to fire you is bullshit.
• ujkhsjkdhf234 2y ago
  > 2. You can’t access your email remotely, really? No. I do not have work email on my phone. You have had some awful jobs based on what you are saying here.
  • imgabe 2y ago
    I’ve had some very fine jobs, but they did involve people counting on me to do work. I guess if you never did anything that mattered that can seem like a burden.
    • ujkhsjkdhf234 2y ago
      My job relies on me to do work and I set boundaries with my job. After my work is done, I am offline. In the case of an emergency, they know my phone number but I am not responding to each and every email after hours.
      • imgabe 2y ago
        There was a 48 hour deadline. Nobody was expected to respond outside work hours.
        • MyOutfitIsVague 2y ago
          A 48 hour deadline is abysmal. I've been sick for more than 48 hours before. Haven't you ever been off work for more than 48 hours at a time?
          • imgabe 2y ago
            Set up auto reply. No I have never been physically incapable of checking email for 48 hours.
            • MyOutfitIsVague 2y ago
              How is an auto-reply going to save you when you were supposed to fill out a list of 5 specific items or be fired?