Don’t know if I have adhd but maybe depression. its not just mail but any communication really. sometimes it feels like it takes intense mental pressure to answer the phone or look through email or vms and I do it every day.
Even looking at this make me twitch! How can you have ANY unread emails / messages or phone call notifications?? It’s chaos!
Oh I hear you…i cannot stand the unread-icons. Even though I absolutely don’t care.
At my last job I auto-deleted everything from my manager. Anything she needed to communicate to me was done via teams anyway.
She got an absolute buttload of emails, because thats how the company worked for any but the lowest of the low. Every job you do (which can easily be dozens upon dozens) requires subscribing to a mailing list of absolute nonsense. Most people got several hundred emails a day. Management got around 1,000. Absolute braindead system. All tech roles (SaaS), and zero people who were willing to maintain proper documentation, except me but I only did it for end-users.
I was the lowest of the low and never got email that wasn’t important for me. Exactly the way I like it. Not like anyone is reading the 400+ mails a day anyway.
But what would happen is that she’d go through the daily onslaught of emails and find some relevant to her team and forward them on, not realizing we -only- got those emails, so instead of three emails in a day, we’d get 6. The original three and a set of duplicates.
No matter how many times I told her she was wasting her time and ours, she still insisted on doing it. Classic management.
Nope, literally the opposite. Need to deal with things right away or they make me anxious
Same. If I’m in a slump/depression I can let it crawl up to a few texts/emails but not to those kinds of numbers nope.
Personal email is a joke though because so much junk.
Not mutually exclusive. Just a very reliable source of anxiety
I’m not entirely sure if I would prefer this over the other.
Yep, same here.
I don’t open things unless I know I have time to action it. As soon as I open it, I either do it or dismiss it.
Since I almost never feel in a position to action an unknown, it sits there. I need the whole day free first.
Yep and if I can’t action it immediately (need others input or something) I flag it because otherwise it just… doesn’t exist anymore lol.
You “flag” it?
As soon as I stop thinking about it, it’s gone. If I flag it, I have to remember there’s a flag, and that’s got the same problem.
Haha yeah my email at work we can put a flag next to it and set a date and it reminds you to follow up on it in 24 hours, a week, whatever you set it to!
My work partner is ADHD and I’m Autistic. So she never reads her mail and I always read mine!
My mailbox keeps filling with ads. But if I just never empty it then they stop putting more ads in it.
Over 1.7k of unread emails, mostly mailing lists though.
