Locusts, Frogs, Blood...Emails

[beerdiablo]

Dropped by la officina to pick up my laptop in anticipation of working from home next week.
Thought I'd take 15-20 minutes and clean-up the inbox from the weekend activities
From end of day Friday to mid day Sunday, there were over 1,300 emails.

One-thousand-three-hundred emails.

The majority of which [1,000-ish] were in the junk email folder. Outlook

Comments

[blackheart666]

Love automated junk alerts... they prove someone is keeping an eye on something.... somewhere...

At least thats what tge management thinks.

[beerdiablo]

More of the same. In 1997, I read an in depth book on it and am very versed in using it,
that makes it easier -plus if you're organized to begin with, it's easier to use.

[gloomchen]

I HEART CLIENT SIDE RULES

really

Speaking as someone who has retired her senior position dispatching server techs (outside of being a backup) -- it's unreal how many folks rely on automation and pushing back on others to solve a situation. I'm sorry, I want the problem fixed before it becomes a catastrophe, so I'll do an extra step or two to make sure that all is well. Is that really so novel a concept?

[blackheart666]

As someone that has the unpleasant job duty of waking people up in the middle of the night.

Yes... it is that hard for people to take 5 extra minutes to avert a catastrophe.

Especially now that a lot of companies are somewhere between "southbound and down" and "donner party"

[beerdiablo]

In this case, someone enabled an email for EVERY event that could take place.
Most of which are non-issue.

[blackheart666]

And they'll never turn them off. Because they probably don't get the emails.

[blackheart666]

Oh. I nust remembered this... my old supervisor at night took two weeks vacation once and came back to like 20 some *thousand* emails... almost all of them from this program we have (it's called "What's Up") that monitors connections to servers and remote sites. Everytime something went down or came up... email.

It caused his pc to lock up everytime he opened outlook. He had to get the old email admin to do something to delete most of those emails...

Management to this days has not changed that setting. "It's important that you guys get these emails."

All of us operators have these things set to be auto-deleted without being read. And we did this 4 years ago...

The program has an operator console that we keep up and check periodically