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15 March 2007 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
3rdragonIt really bugs me when people don't answer my e-mails. I'm not so much talking about the people who don't check their e-mail for days on end - that's annoying, but I can understand it, and I'll deal with it somehow. What I'm talking about is the people who check their e-mail five times a day, but when you send them an e-mail asking a perfectly valid question, they just ignore it. And you know that they've read it, because it's a school e-mail system and you have the ability to look at the history and see that they've read it.
I'm willing to admit that I too am sometimes guilty of this. Sometimes there are e-mails that I don't feel like answering at the moment and I leave sit in my inbox. But I usually get around to them within a day - two at most. I don't leave the e-mails sitting around for long enough that people have to send me follow-up e-mails on the e-mails I never answered in the first place, and then open those and leave them to rot in my inbox, too.
Honestly. I don't write e-mails because I like the look of my words on the screen. Okay, sometimes I do. But this is not one of those times.
I'm asking a question. Most people interpret someone asking a question to mean that they want an answer. It's not even a hard question. All it would take is a "yes" or "no." It might take a "I'm not sure and will look into it," but I'm not asking for a 5-page research paper. Just a simple response. Worse comes to worse, I'll take a "I'm completely swamped right now and will deal with this later."
But this throwing my e-mails into a black void really gets on my nerves.
Okay, maybe you don't want to talk to me. But the person who's bugging me right now is the president of an org that I'm in. Answering questions from members is one of her jobs - particularly since she's kept everyone so in the dark that no one else knows any answers and I have to go to her, which only seems possible by phone, and that only when she's there to answer her phone, because why should she answer voice-mail messages if she can't do anything about e-mails?
I don't think that she has the time for the org. I wish she would just admit it and let someone else take over, instead of just ignoring the problem.
Maybe she can't organize monthly meetings or get anything off the ground. But she could at least take 30 seconds - at most a minute - and answer my e-mail.
I'm willing to admit that I too am sometimes guilty of this. Sometimes there are e-mails that I don't feel like answering at the moment and I leave sit in my inbox. But I usually get around to them within a day - two at most. I don't leave the e-mails sitting around for long enough that people have to send me follow-up e-mails on the e-mails I never answered in the first place, and then open those and leave them to rot in my inbox, too.
Honestly. I don't write e-mails because I like the look of my words on the screen. Okay, sometimes I do. But this is not one of those times.
I'm asking a question. Most people interpret someone asking a question to mean that they want an answer. It's not even a hard question. All it would take is a "yes" or "no." It might take a "I'm not sure and will look into it," but I'm not asking for a 5-page research paper. Just a simple response. Worse comes to worse, I'll take a "I'm completely swamped right now and will deal with this later."
But this throwing my e-mails into a black void really gets on my nerves.
Okay, maybe you don't want to talk to me. But the person who's bugging me right now is the president of an org that I'm in. Answering questions from members is one of her jobs - particularly since she's kept everyone so in the dark that no one else knows any answers and I have to go to her, which only seems possible by phone, and that only when she's there to answer her phone, because why should she answer voice-mail messages if she can't do anything about e-mails?
I don't think that she has the time for the org. I wish she would just admit it and let someone else take over, instead of just ignoring the problem.
Maybe she can't organize monthly meetings or get anything off the ground. But she could at least take 30 seconds - at most a minute - and answer my e-mail.
