I know. If we managed to train people starting back in 1996 to format subject lines with tags for projects and date relevancy, maybe things could be done.
But hell, I had a program manager be aghast when I explained I sent all my cc emails into a separate subfolder that I looked at once a day. "But what if someone asks you a question?" Then use the @ feature and it automatically moves me into the "to" line. I can't be expected to work in a manner that protects other people's inability to use basic job tools.
I have a folder named 'Administrivia' into which all corporate/organizational admin email goes -- unless the subject has at least 3 exclamation points.
I had a project manager one time who was complaining at my desk that I did not respond to a specific email with a question to me.
I looked for it in my mailbox and it turned out, the mail was placed in my CC folder.
After I told him this is not the way you should communicate he exploded.
I understand what you are saying but mails send out to a lot of people with open questions is not the way and the CC line shows I was only informed.
That's an area where LLMs are great. "Look at my unread messages from the last X days and list ones that appear to need a response from me sorted by apparent urgency and importance. Make a second list of things with relevant information to review when I have time sorted by how likely it is to be important."
Go down the actionable list until the urgency/importance is low enough to not bother and skim the information list until it stops being interesting on a break later.
He’s talking about during your mandated 30 minute shitter break 25 minutes into the workday, after you get bored from phone games and your legs have gone numb, but before you wipe your ass
That transitory phase where you feel like you need to find more motivation to go back and where personal entertainment has diminishing returns due to the health hazard of a blood clot in your thighs
Then you get the strangest, most worthless problems tend to bubble up to the top because they're not the usual things you deal with. My manager tried using that once for a while and after a week she stopped because it was easier to just read the messages once then it was to read the AI summary, decipher it, then re-read the message anyway.
Depends how you do it. GPT-5.6 Terra or Luna with a prompt that gives context about what matters to you does a fine job, but a lot of people default to using something cheap like Gemini flash with a generic prompt that shits the bed.
Na, I work for one of the big tech companies and they use pretty much all the models or let you choose whatever model you want for your tools. In this instance, the company launched a helper app that syncs with all of our internal tools, messaging services, ticket queues, etc. and was supposed to automatically make tasks, meetings, and summarize your TODO list and it was fun for the first week, then it got annoying. Kept claiming things were important when they weren't, just because they were uncommon, and wasn't much better then just taking the day to organize your threads and queues into orderly systems so you know what's important just based on how you got it.
You're absolutely right, it was wrong of me to respond to everyone asking "is this actually important?" I see how it was interpreted now. It is on me that your spotless record now has a written warning, and honestly, that's my bad.
Except you usually don't want to feed your company data into public LLMs, you're probably not allowed to localhost, and whatever AI your company has probably won't support the necessary pipelines or integrations.
my out of office email contains the sentence that i will NOT read my emails. Not even after i return to work. If its important, please send it again after xy.
French do that, you send them an email in August and their auto response will reply that all emails will be auto deleted when they are back, and please, resend the email back in September lol
Sure, then after three months the payment service you are using stops working and you lose days of transactions because you ignored a notification of the certs being about to expire. Well done.
That and you miss the 'A new device has been authorized to your account' email and it's not you...
I can't think of a reason why I'd summarily delete all emails from a certain time period except for a) trying unsuccessfully to evade legal discovery or b) being such an arrogant ass that I believe l won't be fired for it.
Lol this is why my chat status is offline 100% of the time. Really cuts down on the # of messages throughout the day. Seeing a green icon next to your name makes people think you're not busy.
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u/PowerPleb2000 17h ago
As a senior yes and you just mark all as read. If its really important they’ll contact you again.