I wish I just got about 100 emails a week; I'm about twice that on average. Some of that is unavoidable -- I deal with our US office a lot, so email is often e

I wish I just got about 100 emails a week; I'm about twice that on average. Some of that is unavoidable -- I deal with our US office a lot, so email is often easier because it's asynchronous. What really upsets me is when people sitting in the same open-plan as me will email things to me rather than handing them to me, or turning and saying, ``Could you please take a look at this?'' Where I work now, and a couple places I've worked in the past, email have become the go-to `solution' to the `problem' of covering your arse. Almost nobody will do anything now without first getting an email instructing them to do so -- even if it's already been discussed at length. They `need' it so they have a paper-trail in case something goes belly-up. These problems are more cultural than technological, but email has really enabled them to flourish in a way that paper memos didn't.