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0 pointsmoxious9y ago0 comments

Are you sure all of your communications are so critical?

There are also people who will chase others to the dog park to tell them that a CI build passed...

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That last example sounds like someone incompetent at email and choosing teammates, chose one who's incompetent at deciding what's critical. Oops-a-daisy. For competent adults, having the recipient unilaterally decide what's critical (critical to whom? being a key question) is insulting.

confounded9y ago

Damned autonomy, damned free-will!

mrexroad9y ago

Yet still less insulting than those who conflate importance with urgency. Guess it comes down to the "competent adults" part; I've often found them to be few and far between at large companies.

bosie9y ago

i don't follow how you got to the snarky "critical" if andyidsinga is ignoring 40% of emails?

PeterisP9y ago

Well, because it would be reasonable to assume that 40% of a typical business user received emails are something that should be ignored.

e.g. 10% of all emails are critical, important or urgent, 30% of emails aren't critical but need a response, additional 20% don't need a response but must be understood, and 40% are just "organizational noise".

Terretta9y ago

As long as they ignore the right 40%.

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