re: Co-Workers Who Never Check Their Emails

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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.