[wespad]

I work a cubicle job in the financial services industry, a large back-office for one of the largest independent broker/dealer networks in the country. Attending to email is essentially the crux of my job. The entire corporation is held together by email. My eye is constantly on not just my personal inbox, but several shared inboxes. A certain type of email hits a certain inbox and the clock starts ticking, I have a specific time frame in which to process a series of actions. I am just one cog. Once I'm done with my part, I fire off an email that hits a number of other shared inboxes and people in other departments pick up the baton and do their processes. If I fall out of my prescribed time frame, I become a bottleneck, the issue gets escalated to higher-ups and it can impact my performance review. If I get too many at once, I'm S-O-L. And, oh yeah, there are also faxes.

[gglitch]

That sounds so much like Gilliam's Brazil. Good luck.