The Dreaded Email

[brainiac]

If you were expecting an email and absolutely dreading it, how long would you put off looking in your inbox?   What displacement activities - another cup of coffee, rearranging your sock drawer, pottering in the garden - do you come up with, or do you just 'rip the plaster off'?

One of mine is being on AB, and I'm doing it now!

[bednobs]

what are you putting off?

sometimes i leave one or two unread and go back to them the next day when it somehow feels easier

 

[maggiebee]

Why put off?  Better just to get it over with - accompanied with a cuppa of course.

[brainiac]

I use Hotmail, and as soon as I turned on my laptop no matter what website I was on, a small 3-inch square message would pop up in the bottom right of the screen showing any new email and who it was from.  Thankfully, somehow I seem to have got rid of this feature, so I can put off looking indefinitely! 

[Peter Pedant]

displace by telling me how you got your A levels early and which university did you go to and study what?

and wd you do anything different?

[brainiac]

peter - I went to the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world when I was 16, studied Modern Languages.

[davebro3]

I have no fears about emails. End of!

[Peter Pedant]

yeah but no but

did you think once you had arrived, it was too early ( for you) and you wd have benefited if you had waited?

and done what?

( I got my A levels at 16 - and spent two years as a lab  rat at Porton, doing plating, staining and well low paid work. Where, when you just lived.....£32 a month when lodgings were £7 a week - yes the dreaded five week month was a problem

[brainiac]

It was way too early.  Talk about a steep learning curve - Middle High German and Sturm und Drang-era texts only available in gothic script.

I got through it all, but it failed to prepare me for sometimes being unable to face my inbox  :)

[bednobs]

my work inbox is like that, but i usually look at my personal inbox with no probs.

I currently have 87 unread for work.

[brainiac]

bednobs - if you have that many unread for work, doesn't that impinge on your ability to do your work properly?

[Peter Pedant]

o my god

in box o phobia - -  all because you went to uni at 16

[Peter Pedant]

Blimey I clear my in box within 3 h.

very few go into what cd be called ( Post office etc) a suspense acct  - " thx, I am thinking about it"

[fiveleaves]

Some emails I never open

[jno]

can't you set your emails to display in black-letter Gothic so it will take longer to get through them?

There may even be a Chat GPT option to put them into verse in the style of Walther von der Vogelweide.

[Tilly2]

Open it! Don't be a wuss!

[davebro3]

Dunno if others are the same but my talktalk email list kinda gives the gist of what each email contains.

[Peter Pedant]

Some emails I never open - - no I open all xc " Russian lips await you" or "loot-meela wants your number..."

I bet she does c Frankie Howerd look.

BT toggled me to email bills from paper and then fined me for late payment. and Scots Power - they are AWFUL - failed 'to migrate my payments; to my account and cut me off. 

[Smowball]

87 bednobs!!? Jesus lol.

[Prudie]

I have 39,255 items in my work inbox and 1,9995 of them are unread - but they're not really unread. They are mails I saw the subject of and knew I didn't have to read them. I've just not got round to deleting.

I rarely worry about opening work emails but personal things that come by post is different. I've been known to either hide or shred those unopened. Especially if they are from the bank, NHS or I don't know the sender..

[Prudie]

before anyone says, 1995 are unread...