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I don't even know why we talk with other people in companies anymore. We can't send emails because people don't read them. So we are drowning in calls where we include the whole team where we talk about our weekends for 5 minutes at the start and spend half talking about what could have been a email. So on top we have bots that do these summaries so people can be sitting on calls only paying half attention to then not read the summaries anyway.
The only real solution is to actually care enough about the work to read the email. The trouble is that so many companies these days do meaningless middleman shit that people couldn't give a fuck about. We're headed straight for an economy substantially consisting of work that doesn't matter, largely being done by bots that can't think properly.
... Which would be fine I guess, as long as the ruling class would be so good as to offer a substantial sinecure to the populace. But instead they will likely insist that we quietly die someplace they don't have to watch.
This part was achieved in the 1980s.
Can I have like, the one scrap of false hope, just as a treat?
I tangibly feel the agony in this comment. What if I told you this false hope is an opiate that allows the situation to continue, but the pain of lancing that boil opens an opportunity to (yes, painfully) to sever and extract the root of the putrid infection that will keep recurring, if undone?
Say the same thing, but without using a single metaphor
Really?
Yes you can have it, but choosing the less painful option for yourself right now is allowing corruption and fascism to win, possibly for generations, inflicting greater ~~ain't~~ pain not only on yourself, but fellow citizens as well.
Eta: a pox on autocorrect
See, this is how I knew you were just being a shit. You accuse me of complacency but you have no suggestions. Fucking turd behaviour.
The interesting thing about becoming invested in victim mentality is the victims develop the same attitudes and weapons as their abusers. Shifting from victim to victor mentality is simple, but oh-so-often not easy.
Really. Lance what boil? Do what, exactly? What box are you imagining I haven't ticked?
Half of the participants don't contribute anything, but need to look busy so they have to lengthen the call with inane banter.
Most of my emails have nothing to do with me, but everyone is CCing me on stuff, just in case I might be relevant somehow. Particularly and they made a convenient distribution list that includes 300 people and people send to it all the time. Someone I've never heard of on the other side of the world was going to be unavailable because they were sick and I get an email. The automated test for some project I have nothing to do with failed again last night and I get an email. Every morning I am greeted with about 100 emails that happened overnight. Even the handful of threads where I have some relevance, it goes off topic and I have no idea if I'm relevant to the new message or not until I read it.
Corporate communication is just screwed.
Lmao I would have read emails if I wasn't drowning in irrelevant emails and they forced us to switch to outlook which not only got rid of all the automated filtering and sorting I had setup but also lacked the features to recreate them. I used to be on top of email and slack channels but they just added so much mandatory shit that I just couldn't wade through anymore. So, "We can't send emails because people don't read them" in my experience has been a management problem, not an employee problem. This was Oracle though, and they're particularly bad at treating employees as human beings
I will spend part or my Monday setting up 2 meetings to follow up people who didn’t answer the message I sent them last week. I need a simple data from one, and a 2 minute task from the other.
This is a company I joined 3 years ago, and was baffled in the first weeks how nobody answers their emails, not even IT. So I started sending MS Teams messages like others, and that worked well so far, but now they also seem to have lost efficiency.
Work would be easier if everybody just respected others enough to answer their messages. We don’t need to be best friends, just pls everybody do your job…
Edit: even better, if I didn’t have to chase people for simple data and giving acces rights to a bunch of non-confidential shit that is gatekeeped like trade secrets