• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Lesson I’ve learned - email is for tracking/confirmation/updates/distributing info, not for decision making/discussions. Do that on the phone/meetings, etc, followup with confirmation emails.

    So when someone sends a nonsense email, call them to clarify. They’ll eventually get tired of you calling every time they send their crappy emails.

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      3 months ago

      I disagree about the purpose of email. I end most meetings thinking to myself, “That last hour could have been accomplished in a brief email.”

      • maynarkh@feddit.nl
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        3 months ago

        I think you’re both right. A lot of meetings are one person talking and the others listening, that could have been an email. Actual back-and-forth discussion needs to be verbal though, otherwise what could be resolved in 10 minutes takes a week.