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by chrisfarms
4488 days ago
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Dear Busy Person, I know you get so many emails that it takes you a while to reply, so I thought I'd help you out by sending you more emails. Regards. Rebump. ------ Jest aside, nagging does work, so this technique probably would too, but I can imagine if someone started using it on me, it'd just filter the messages to the bin. The product does look very well executed. Best of luck. |
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Nagging works if the person you're nagging has forgotten about you and if they hold you in high enough priority in the first place.
However, if you mail someone competent and organized, and they deliberately shelve you because you are not as important to them as other things they're doing, they'll get annoyed if you nag.
Like spam, nagging is an unpleasant intrusion on your attention. Automated nagging can't possibly improve upon that. Response expectation mismatch is a human problem with social solutions, not technical ones. If someone doesn't respond to me, I might know why, and if I don't I can restate my expectations in a manner appropriate to the relationship. Similarly, if someone requests something of me and has an expectation that I'll do it within 3 days, I can mail them to confirm receipt of the request and let them know it'll be more like 5. Expectation management in interpersonal relationships should be handled by the people involved.