taking the heat
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- nburlington
a week ago my boss sent an email to all the designers in the dept. the subject of the email acknowledged a heavy work effort over the past few weeks.
buried at the bottom of the email was mention of an upcoming meeting and a list of designers who needed to be there. the email asked for confirmation of availibility.
i never saw that part. i was busy and the first two paragraphs and subject had no relation to the mention of the meeting.
so i didn't see it, didn't confirm, nobody ever mentioned it after that email.
today a v.p was wondering where people were (another designer missed the notice too). I asked my boss what was going on and she told me about the email. i told her i never saw it and she came to my desk and after digging around (she couldn't even tell which message she sent it in) we found it.
THEN she asks me to send the vp an explanation of why i didn't show up.
Its half my fault but the fucking thing could have been communicated alot clearer and followed up on verbally when nobody ever got a confirmation from me. I'm tempted to put my boss on blast (professionally of course).
- smellvetica0
..you glanced at it as you were so busy.
- rabattski0
no way dude. that's totally not your fault. sticking something important somewhere on the bottom of an e-mail which is not relevant to all is NOT smart.
- k0na_an0k0
the guns are loaded sir. fire at will. you're just in doing so.
- danthon0
maybe they were trying out that new email monitering software that reports what email you read and how long you spent reading it.
- jevad0
"I'm tempted to put my boss on blast"
do it - thats bad management
- ********0
get a load of molten cheese and fondue the fuckers, works for me
- jevad0
hahahahah
- digitalswarm0
Tell him that you were still training Mail.
- abizzyman0
eh...
go ahead and try calling the boss out on bad management - hahaha...
... it sounds like the email was prefaced w/'good job folks' but was meant to notify everyone of a meeting...
... either way - saying that you didn't read the entire email is a bad bad bad excuse. :) Yes, there should have been follow-up emails and possible verbal reminders etc - but the fact remains that you ignored the second half of a higher-up's email... and everything else aside, that's just unacceptable to management.
- vespa0
pfft. if i read every email from "higher management" i'd never get any work done. they should have at least spoken to you about it beforehand or reminded you if it was so-oo important.
- jevad0
bullshit man - if there's a frickin meeting you send out a meeting request - not hide it at the bottom of an email
- abizzyman0
jev... I agree, dude...
... I'm saying that he's going to have a hard time explaining that to management.
As far as they're concerned - they sent the email - 'nuff said' (that's what they'd say)
:)
- ********0
I've managed to get them stop sending me some of their irrelevant crap by virtue of "answer all", always polite and pertinent questions but they always start a debate....then they realise that I've got nothing to do with the mail in the first place and after a few times take me off whichever list it is.....
- tkmeister0
they should start using outlook calender feature. i have all of my meetings there as well as when people will be out of office.
- JamesEngage0
Is that all you're worried about? jeez... most place shave about 50 vp's anyway... two a penny! Wouldn't worry about it
- fusionpixel0
I think you should read your emails thoughly. I hate when people ask me stuff that was cover in emails, like their window is set up to 800x600 and whatever doesnt fit withing their window they do not care about.
Usually I send them back an email saying
Read the whole email before asking!
- vespa0
Usually I send them back an email saying
Read the whole email before asking!
fusionpixel
(Jan 25 05, 09:57)that sounds like a techie i work with! he is so-oo pedantic, and has the communication skills of a brick. he's always right but pisses everyone off in the process...
- Dancer0
LOL = MX
- nburlington0
I totally took responsibility for my part. I wrote an apology and didn't pass blame. BUT then my boss comes by and says that the vp let me off easy and next time i'd probably have a letter in my file.
All I'm saying is if it was that important, then it deserved its own email with a follow up right?
- abizzyman0
you have a valid point nburlington...
... but the truth is that you DID get the message - and that's all that matters to them.
And that's why you got heat. Fusionpixel is dead-on - it's your responsibility to read your emails.