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by mapierce2 685 days ago
The converse lesson here is also important: If you don't want a response to your email, barrage the recipient with text.
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If you don't want it to be read, barrage the recipient with text.

But then, if you don't want it to be read, why are you sending it?

Corporate life includes giving the appearance of working but being unproductive.

"If I send my email I'm fulfilling my responsibilities but if they don't answer I'm avoiding extra work."

Unethical pro life tip - use other people’s poor reading comprehension or laziness in reading thoroughly to get out of responsibilities.

Why isn’t it done yet? Because we’ve been waiting on X to address Y and after three weeks of reminders there’s been to reply or action. It’s X’s fault, not mine, I communicated.