Is it an obligation to respond on time to email received? Email is something that just makes communication a whole lot faster and easier. But when you possess a personal email and somebody emails you, I know it would only be polite if you replied, but if it was someone whom you dont remember meeting and he/she was asking some questions irrelevant and not logical to you, would it be an obligation to reply??
Is anybody paying me to do that??? Hrrmmph! Somebody ought to teach him to be polite.
I can just tell balls to you and continue with my work, but I know better to be polite. These days, people need a lot to learn.
One of the things he wanted to know was whether I was the first mark in my class and he wanted to satisfy himself that I wasn’t! Who cares more anyway!!!
by Kishore
02 Jun 2006 at 09:23
u have it in u to become a “project manager”..
by Thiya
02 Jun 2006 at 16:07
Hmmm.. I cant figure out in what sense you meant “Project Manager”
Coz, From a lot of flabbergasted pals, Project managers are people who loaf about nothing in particular!!! Though it varies across different workplaces.. Hmmm..
Hope you didnt mean that..
by Kishore
02 Jun 2006 at 16:21
PMs have this wonderful attitude of not replying to mails. After sending 3-4 “gentle reminders” u would go and ask them in person, and then they’ll say “Oh, u sent me a mail?”
There are faults with ur junior also. But I would still feel u could have replied something.
by Thiya
03 Jun 2006 at 00:18
@Kishore
No Kishore, I was actively replying to some “threads” of his through email. And everything was going on fine! But he was expecting me to reply very soon(see first line of entry)!! I usually reply as soon as I come online to anybody who has emailed me, but when I saw the comments on my blog pertaining to my ‘replies’, it annoyed me so much so as to spawn this particular post! I replied to his email after that too asking him to be polite! And he apologised, but I just wanted to know if its an obligation to reply to mail immediately and hence this post!
by Kishore
03 Jun 2006 at 22:51
Cool!