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When emails don't get answered in a timely manner, don't wait a week until it's too late, get on the phone.
On group projects there are often people who get distracted and they'll need to be advised that they need to get their butt in gear and do what they're supposed to do....its just the downside of working with other people.
So depends on the person. I have three email accounts. One goes to all my devices (well not my work MBP) and because it only gets given to important people will get seen and dealt with straight away.
Then my gmail account I use for most other things. I tend to check it every couple of days. It’s only accessed through a browser.
Then my yahoo account. It’s where I really don’t want to give you any contact details but the online form mandates I do. I check it every few months.
Which email address did they give you? Primary or secondary etc?
Then some people decide that they don’t want to deal with something so pretend to not have seen your email.
At work I get 100’s of emails, teams messages and basecamp requests a day. Things do sometimes get missed because of the volume. If it’s important I pick up the phone.
Couldn't agree more.
One of the reasons people don't always handle their emails like you expect them to, is the fact that nowadays email is being used (abused) for just about anything and everything.
Excluding the times when I am working abroad (when milk is often difficult to obtain), I will drink milk (usually in my coffee) more or less daily when at home.
Likewise, I cheerfully consume (nay, devour) cheese - which is something I do not envisage ever eliminating from my diet - on a regular basis, and I do quite like yogurt (especially the forms you find in the Balkans and similar regions, such as Greece, or Russia), and love cream (especially good quality, preferably organic, cream), although I do try to ration myself when offered the temptation of good quality cream.
Ah, the cheese in France......
Glorious.
Finally, my internet has been restored & repaired (the technician was out this morning), and the landline should also be restored later today.
Thus, no need to plan which coffee shops are due a visit.....
Depends on the product, and depends on the YouTuber.
I am wary of sponsorships - not least because I suspect that the feedback may not be entirely genuine; as @The Clark suggests, instead, one should type the name of the product in reddit and read the responses, which will be from genuine users, who are writing about their experience with the product in question.
If you’re genuinely being held up then ask again with “Second Request” added to the subject line.
If there’s still no reply then it’s the BA or PM responsibility, if one is assigned.
If the project has no BA or PM assigned then add the person’s supervisor along with yours and request again making it clear you are DIW.
If the person is an external client (customer) call them.
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Or mark your emails high priority like one of my colleagues used to for every email. That gets you to the top of my ignore list!In some cases like at my job, not having a response to emails especially with HQ, is an issue of under-staffing.You can try reminders, or request a read receipt at least. Or phone.
Actually, (and probably needless to say), but yes, I do.
And that is a timely reminder to indulge in an afternoon mug of coffee.
Meanwhile, outside, it is depressing, wet, overcast, and raining; not remotely enticing.
Two very important forms, with extremely hard questions. I keep coming back to them every once in awhile, but I just can't answer them. Some of them, I literally do not know of an answer. I mean, I need to submit them relatively soon.
On my mind currently: carrot.
Sometimes I like to dig a hole in my back yard, stand in the hole and pretend I'm a carrot.
