Comments on: Five non-sensical things people do with e-mail http://yworking.com/technology/five-non-sensical-things-people-do-with-e-mail/ generation y is at your service. sort of. Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:33:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt http://yworking.com/technology/five-non-sensical-things-people-do-with-e-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Matt Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:09:59 +0000 http://yworking.com/technology/five-non-sensical-things-people-do-with-e-mail/#comment-21 E-mail training is an absolute must. It's beyond me why this isn't something the high schools have picked up on. EVERYBODY needs to send e-mail as part of their job. It really doesn't matter where your career takes you -- you'll need to be able to send e-mail. But it's still not something educators take seriously. (I suppose it is a little bit true that teaching is actually one of the few professions where you DON'T have to send e-mails. Hmm...) Being make-do tech support does definitely provide job security -- especially when you end up learning everyone's e-mail passwords because of it (hah!) -- but at the same time it kind of wears out its welcome and can limit Gen Y employees when it comes to moving up in their jobs. "Better not send Matt out to that meeting -- he'll need to be here in case Mary has a problem with her PowerPoint!" Thanks for reading, Holly. I hope you check back again! Matt E-mail training is an absolute must. It’s beyond me why this isn’t something the high schools have picked up on. EVERYBODY needs to send e-mail as part of their job. It really doesn’t matter where your career takes you — you’ll need to be able to send e-mail. But it’s still not something educators take seriously. (I suppose it is a little bit true that teaching is actually one of the few professions where you DON’T have to send e-mails. Hmm…)

Being make-do tech support does definitely provide job security — especially when you end up learning everyone’s e-mail passwords because of it (hah!) — but at the same time it kind of wears out its welcome and can limit Gen Y employees when it comes to moving up in their jobs. “Better not send Matt out to that meeting — he’ll need to be here in case Mary has a problem with her PowerPoint!”

Thanks for reading, Holly. I hope you check back again!

Matt

]]> By: holly hoffman http://yworking.com/technology/five-non-sensical-things-people-do-with-e-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-19 holly hoffman Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:38:15 +0000 http://yworking.com/technology/five-non-sensical-things-people-do-with-e-mail/#comment-19 I have a coworker who deletes NOTHING from her inbox. Our IT department has to come and tell her to delete e-mails because she is over capacity. She has the fifth highest capacity in the company, and she's not in a senior position. Cracks me up. Yes, absolutely, why isn't there an e-mail training system? Or, at the very least, a Best Practices white sheet for larger companies? Part of me does love being the go-to gal for anything vaguely technical in the computers and programs department. Need Excel help? Ask Holly. I don't know how to do [insert simple Office-based program task]. Ask Holly. It gives you a sense of job security in an uncertain market. I have a coworker who deletes NOTHING from her inbox. Our IT department has to come and tell her to delete e-mails because she is over capacity. She has the fifth highest capacity in the company, and she’s not in a senior position. Cracks me up.

Yes, absolutely, why isn’t there an e-mail training system? Or, at the very least, a Best Practices white sheet for larger companies? Part of me does love being the go-to gal for anything vaguely technical in the computers and programs department. Need Excel help? Ask Holly. I don’t know how to do [insert simple Office-based program task]. Ask Holly. It gives you a sense of job security in an uncertain market.

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