re: Co-Workers Who Never Check Their Emails

It all depends on the type of business you are in. My business relies very heavily on email... yours probably don't

But, I find it amazing that a worker who has been at work for 2-1/2 hours has not checked their email. I don't care how "busy" you are, it's fricking pathetic that you do not check your email when you first get in the morning.

You have time to be on your coffee high and run around the office socializing the first 15 minutes you arrive but you don;t have time to check your email?

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I cannot stand when I send out a time sensitive issue about a subject and a few hours later I see them and ask "Did you get my email?" They reply "No, I haven't checked my email yet today" -

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I haven't read the thread, but sending email today is the equivalent of sending USPS mail 30 years ago. Never assume someone read what you sent. Not everyone stares at their inbox all day.

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It would so not work at my job. In a meeting? That's why you get your email on your phone. And it comes from the top. Even the vp answers emails all day. That's how stuff gets done

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Granted, I'm in sales, to where I don't even go into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I'm driving around all day meeting with clients, to where I have meetings that go on for hours at a time. If you're a receptionist or a VP, I can understand constantly checking your mail, but pretty much everyone in sales is only checks their email 2-4 times a day. My office is like 90% people who are directly in sales, to where we know we need to contact by phone or text if it needs to be dealt with within the day.

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It makes you a bad/unreliable employee if that's your primary communication method.

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you win worst post of the thread. congrats

I don't even open 90% of my emails. If I'm needed they know where to call me.

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But, I find it amazing that a worker who has been at work for 2-1/2 hours has not checked their email. I don't care how "busy" you are, it's fricking pathetic that you do not check your email when you first get in the morning.

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For me though, if I've got an email, that means I have to pull over at a Starbucks, log into my VPN, check the email just in case I have one, and then spend 20 minutes just in case something needs to be elaborate. Thanks to my company's security protocols, they have to issue me the iPhone to check my email on it. However, you're only given a certain cell phone allowance, and if you want your cell phone to be able to check your email, you have to give your company your cell phone number. Sales is by no means the most stable job, and if you get laid off, then they keep your cell phone number. It is highly, highly impractical for most people in high profile sales to check their email every single hour. During that time checking their email, they can go out and be on another appointment. Granted, my company is on the verge of giving us iPads which will make this a bit easier, but if I have to do a professional email, I'm not going to do it from my iPad and I'm going to the closest Starbucks to take up close to an hour of my time.

I'm a professional who works in an office. Most of the BS I get in emails are reports that are covered in monthly meetings or organization wide announcements that don't pertain to me. When they need me, my supervisees call me.

A co-worker was showing me something on her phone and I saw that she had more than 11,000 unread emails. And she very responsibly responds to work emails, so I don't know what the hell that was about.

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No. But we don't send around useless emails unless we know someone is presenting and they have their Outlook preview on..

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This reminds me of someone on our floor sending out a group email. We have the option of tagging an email as high importance and it basically shows up with a red exclamation point. I've overheard her complaining how the breakroom fridge smells and then minutes later I'll get a group email marked "high importance" saying she's cleaning out the fridge by so and so time so get everything you want out. I nearly have an aneurysm as it's literally the least important e-mail I'll receive all day. I see snapchats of people having coworkers send out emails complaining of how someone left a fork in the sink, and I can't help but imagine how little these people must actually work if this is the highlight of their workday.