I receive and send an outrageous amount of emails every day from my work address. At this point it may be worth pointing out that my hotmail address is currently totally unmanageable as well. All the emails full of useful information are lost in amongst the hundreds of emails from friends, which amount to a kind of online discussion board that exists to coordinate various important social gatherings (teh quiz), to send forth the latest humourous interweb finding (tronguy), and more generally to preserve our mutual sanity in moments of work dullness. And as another aside to this blog maybe we should have an achingbrain.net comment board for those of us who are blocked from using web-based mail / blog sites at work. The membership would of course be terribly exclusive.
So back to my inbox and its 1112 emails, all of which I have never bothered to put into folders. I had this theory that I would delete the useless ones, and then use the Outlook “Find” function to track down the useful emails when required. Sadly my inbox is now so crowded that the “Find” function is about as speedy as a snail.
So today, I have declared “Inbox management day” (please feel free to join in my celebrations). Today I am going to create folders and file my emails; I am going to blog about it before I begin.
For some time now I have considered the unsorted and unregimented inbox as the last bastion of my insubordination. I’ll explain, in my current job I am working in an industry I never expected to, my job is to organise another’s life, and frankly at times it blows. The random emails floating about in inbox space reminded me of someone who didn’t want to file for life, free and easy, floating in the wind (apologies for the metaphor overload)… As much as I would like to keep it this way, technology has scuppered my attempts, and hindered my propagation of the scruffiest inbox in the world.
So today, it’s time to accept my fate, clip my wings, and prepare myself for a life of filing. Am I sad? Well, a bit. But I suppose this is a prequel to a much longer blog I have stored up about the problems of being a member of the undefined generation (aka Generation Y). I hope my boss doesn’t know about this site.
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