Boomhauer

Started about a month ago and today I am finally down to ZERO emails in the inbox.

Now I just need to clean my Yahoo account of over 9000 emails

6monthshere6monthsthere

Thanks for sharing, i can email you that if you like

hong_konger

lol and I thought I was bad !
So out of those 9000 how many were important ? do you reckon you could have just hit the "delete all" button ?

Boomhauer

A few were, saved those. Couldn't delete all without checking .

Bahtatboy

Lightweight.

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Boomhauer

I recall somewhere you mentioning having thousands of emails in your Inbox. Mine was actually over 9000 but after 9000 it just stopped counting.

scrubbedexpat141

10,511 items in inbox. 7357 unread.

Earliest email in there is from Feb last year.

Time to go on a mass delete.

weasel decentral

That's mad, how come they are unread? Do you not even open them for a second to see what the email is about?
My email OCD would refuse to allow me to have unread highlighted in outlook.

Mogs

Lightweight

shiva

I ****ing hate email

the global stat is something like 1.2 emails back for every one you send.

my inbox is at 7,000 odd with 15 unread.

everytime it hits 10,000 i delete all regardless of content.

there is nothing in there that my life depends on and i view it very much as a barely tolerable necessity.

more and more productivity studies are showing that abandoning emails especially intra office email leads to an increase in productivity and a decrease in stress.

Its a hateful medium and anyone who uses reply all should be summarily executed in public. same goes for anyone unable to distinguish between CC and BCC.

scrubbedexpat141

I average, I don't know, shit loads per day. Lots of CVs from adverts, lots of shite from Linkedin etc etc. I try to delete as I go but use the reading pane to read what I want / preview CVs rather than open / mark as unread.

I change the settings from auto-un-read the email when it's been clicked on because it annoys me. I've got barrel loads of folders too, but it's just a hassle. The greatest thing in Outlook is the search function.

Agreed.

I get really annoyed when guys in my team will email someone to ask a question rather than pick up the ****ing phone.

My old director was a complete ****, make no mistake, the bloke was/is a ****ing chopper of the highest order. BUT, the only redeeming feature is that he cannot use a computer, his PA does everything on it for him but it means he is never off the phone.

I employ bans on email for periods of hours when we need to get shit done and get on the phone. Anyone caught out has to buy me lunch

Boomhauer

They want a record of their convo. so if things go belly-up then they can point to the other person?

weasel decentral

the reason for 90% of all inter-office emails

scrubbedexpat141

Oh I don't mean important shit. I mean when I ask for someone to check simple stuff like: What's his notice? How old are his kids? Would he consider Oman etc etc etc. Quick, 60second call or endless wait for a reply.

Important shit gets emailed. If I'm feeling particularly combative I'll write minutes and use them at the follow up.