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Rant time!
Well, it’s been a while so indulge me.
I have a pretty major failing. It appears that my mind reading and predicting the future skills are somewhat lacking. I have come into the office today (rather than work from home) simply to attend one meeting this morning. That meeting has now been cancelled as the host has decided to work from home! Well thanks a chuffing bunch. Presumably this was not a spur of the moment call and if the cancellation had been sent through last night I wouldn’t have got up at 5:20 this morning to come in.
Also, a new project is launching in just over 2 weeks and the first I heard of it was today. So what? you may ask. Well, it’s my job to launch these things so some advance notice would have been nice. Other people knew of it, and were obviously waiting for my amazing psychic abilities to detect its approach. Bad news on this front, I don’t have any! I have a pretty full schedule between now and then and am as likely to be able to fit this in as Bin Laden is to convert to Buddhism.
Having spent 30 minutes reducing my inbox to a size deemed acceptable by the “I.T. email & work prevention police” it has now been clogged again with presentations of ridiculous size in PowerPoint, as we all know that it’s the little graphics and animations that make the difference. Not if they take it up to 6MB they don’t! Stop it, just stop it! The inbox issue is of course made worse by the 26 zombie bites, 18 werewolf attacks, 4 sheep gifts and 3 random questions that Facebook feels needs my urgent attention.
You see to some people, Friday is about clearing the decks ready for a fresh start on Monday. For the unimaginitive that simply means forwarding on the entire contents of their inbox to other people, before pronouncing, “Oh look, I’ve got a clear inbox.” Well whoop de fucking doo for you.
Next time you go to press forward, consider the impact that will have on the recipient. Do they need it? Do they care? If not, then keep hold of it and go and discuss it with them first!