I dont read any emails because I just assume our cyber people are trying to phish me again.
Yellow, it is me your very trusty worth Cyber Security Personal that works for {your company name here}
I have some files that need opened right away to fix problems on local systems.
Attachments=
Wannacry.exe
Borat.exe
YouareanIdiot.exe
FreeMoney.wallpaper
BitcoinMiner.msi
veryImportaintPDF.pdf
Typically, this means:
- You’re sending too much frivilous crap mail.
- You’re viewed as a time cost with low benefit.
- Your organization is sending too much crap mail, and no one is reading much of anything.
You control 2 of those. The first two have the same solution, send less mail, and label your crap messages as such. (We all have crap mail we need to send to meet technical obligations, but label it to be easily filtered.)
What’s an “emails”?
You probably elaborate too much. I used to do that too. If it doesn’t fit in a few short lines better communicate directly (call or meeting).
If it’s too long for email but should be written down, write a document and send a link. Weirdly, it’s easier to get people to read a document than a longish message.
My manager only ever reads the first 2 lines of an email. Very annoying when there’s a complex issue that needs more than 2 sentences to explain and he wants to know all the details. I swear he must’ve read it on a list of “x number of things that highly successful people do” and now he lives by it.
I have been asked why I didn’t tell my boss about a problem I had been sending him tracking data for over a year about.
Only reason I wasn’t even more blunt explaining that was because my boss is also my dad.
Did ya, get that, thing i sent you?
