Reply to: Management by email….

[TheVoice]

He is spouting war and peace by email (not much peace though….)

Current coping mechanism is to ignore emails.

Getting to the point he is still refusing to talk to people and sending the same email message out several times.

Hmmm yeah I've had a few idiots like this.

Method 1:

Confront them & ask them what the hell is going on & why they think they can ignore you?

Method 2:

<Reply To All>

Dear Cretin,

Instead of firing out hundreds of pointless emails & then ignoring anyone who has taken the time to respond, how about you get off your fat arse & actually talk to the people face to face. It's nicer that way...


Good luck!

[Grinder]

I sent out the minutes of a day long technical workshop a few days back.

I had ordered them by subject area and put the decisions and actions as bullets. I had to. It was a VERY productive day and with six pages of typed notes to distribute afterwards it needed to be condensed into a manageable form.

One manager (who stayed for half an hour then announced he was too senior for this) responded by email to me, all the attendees and to my line management saying I should rewrite the bullets as paragraphs and re-order it so it reads like a story. In the order in which things were said, rather than grouped logically. And I had only included decisions, not the debates leading to them so they were not valid minutes anyway.



It was emails like that which prompted God to invent the <DEL> key.

That does make one despair! You did exactly what I did - surely anything other than conclusions it not an output from the meeting. If anyone wants to treat it as white-box, they should get their lazy asses into the meeting in the first place.

[BrowneIssue]

I sent out the minutes of a day long technical workshop a few days back.

I had ordered them by subject area and put the decisions and actions as bullets. I had to. It was a VERY productive day and with six pages of typed notes to distribute afterwards it needed to be condensed into a manageable form.

One manager (who stayed for half an hour then announced he was too senior for this) responded by email to me, all the attendees and to my line management saying I should rewrite the bullets as paragraphs and re-order it so it reads like a story. In the order in which things were said, rather than grouped logically. And I had only included decisions, not the debates leading to them so they were not valid minutes anyway.



It was emails like that which prompted God to invent the <DEL> key.

[d000hg]

Every time I am past his desk he is bashing away......

[BrilloPad]

Does it matter? You are the one on a daily rate - its the permies who have to worry surely as they will be there longer!

Wilmslow is a permie : he even has the company polyester tie.

You at the back! Do try to keep up with the sockpuppets....

[Archangel]

Every time I am past his desk he is bashing away at Outlook......

Is English not your first language Wilmslow?

[MPwannadecentincome]

Does it matter? You are the one on a daily rate - its the permies who have to worry surely as they will be there longer!

[BrilloPad]

Got a release manager with zero people skills and a zany look in his eyes

Is that relative to you?

[Wilmslow]

We're assuming he's located with you. His office isn't a tent half-way up Ben Nevis is it?

He is the other side of the drinks machine, around 20 yards away......

Every time I am past his desk he is bashing away at Outlook......

[Doggy Styles]

We're assuming he's located with you. His office isn't a tent half-way up Ben Nevis is it?

[thelace]

Wiiilllmmssloooww!

Every time he sends an email, give him an update on your current car troubles.

This is probaly the reason he deals with Wilmslow by email?

Everyone else is in on the gag and they get along just fine with him

[Rookie]

Offer to make him a cup of coffee. Add a megadose of laxatives. Hey presto. Boss on the toilet all day with his trousers around his ankles wondering why the world has just fallen out of his bottom. Him away from desk. No time to write long useless emails.

But wait..does he have a Blackberry? Better still chop his fingers off one by one.

No fingers = no typing = no emails.

But what about his nose........hmmm.

Better yet. Just shoot him (or leave).

HTH

[chef]

Wiiilllmmssloooww!

Every time he sends an email, give him an update on your current car troubles.

or ex mafia neighbours

[Ravello]

Wiiilllmmssloooww!

Every time he sends an email, give him an update on your current car troubles.

[Wilmslow]

Whenever you receive an email from him, print it out and go & see him, saying you want him to talk through what he is asking. Never reply by email, then he will be forced to spend more time writing up what's been said.

i like this idea.

Better still, I will wait for a week, claim not time to read the rest of his ramblings and only book out an hour allocating the rest of the day for proper work.

Even better, I am in at 7am, so, will make myself available from 7-8 am, and see how badly he still wants a chat.

The email sign-up is very tempting though - only got clientco email though, not his personal one, or I would do this for sure.