#work emails

[victusinveritas]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[iibislintu]

[tastefullyoffensive]

🤣 30 Funny Work Email Memes We Hope Find You Well And That You Can Circle Back To Later For Laughter

[memingoapp]

Uh oh. What did I agree to?

[mattsmemes]

[jamiemoonymarks]

No more emails. The only emails I wanna see are the ones from ao3.

[skankhunt44]

Truth, it's like playing the Magic gathering all over again. But it's real life.

And memos are a show of big dick energy.

[runningatypufullspeed]

RAAAAAAH SO GLAD F451 FANDOM IS ALIVE

NOT ANYMORE ITS NOT BRO I MOVED ON FROM THAT A LONG TIME AGO IM SORRY 😞😢

[victusinveritas]

I'd say we've all been there, but really I think it's around 22.39% of Tumblr users (myself included).

Normalize the signoff 'Not a bot, just an aut." Or something better if you think of that.

[riverofempathy]

Anyone else not choose “Sincerely” for their signature…. because they don’t feel sincere when they’re writing it?

[cptsdstudyblr]

Some tools I use to keep my work life organized

Paper planner - All of my daily tasks are on my paper planner. The one I use has a full page per day, which is a must for me with how busy I am.

Time blocking (digital calendar) - I put all of my recurring tasks as repeating events on my digital calendar. This way, I know approximately when I want to do them, how long they will take, how busy I am, etc. This also makes sure that I keep track of them, since recurring events are fairly foolproof. It's also very easy to move them around just by dragging and dropping. As a note, I do also include these tasks as daily tasks in my paper planner, so that I can see them all in one place.

Flagged emails & unread emails - I use flagged emails to indicate that I need to remember or reference something. I mark emails as unread to indicate that it's an urgent task I haven't addressed. My goal is to have 0 unread emails at the end of each day, but I may flag a lot of emails through the day for later. I even have a time set away each week to go through my flagged emails.

Outlook email rules - I receive and send hundreds of emails every day. I took a couple of hours once I got settled in my role to set up 20+ rules to automatically categorise emails so that it's easier for me to go through them. For example, I have a folder where auto-generated reports go. I can open that folder and go through emails only in that category, which makes it a lot easier to tackle things in cohesive chunks.

Notebook - I use my notebook for any meeting notes I take. While I do have at least a dozen meetings weekly, my biggest use for this is during my twice-weekly team meeting where we divide up and plan tasks. During this meeting, I write my tasks in a notebook, and then I later add them to my planner. This allows me to take my time to plan them out as they fit in my schedule, while having detailed notes elsewhere.

Spreadsheets - I have a computer science background, so I am able to create very powerful spreadsheets. I created for our team multiple comprehensive tracking spreadsheets, so that we can keep track of (for example) thousands of contracts with ease. It took a while to perfect each tracker, but it's well worth the effort.

"Housekeeping" to-do list - My team has created a to-do list of housekeeping items, such as updating templates, etc. This list is mostly for me due to my role, so I tackle these smaller, less-urgent items when I have some spare time.

[zuzsenpai]

Does anyone else spell, grammar and tone check your work emails half a dozen times, send them, then immediately go into your “sent” emails and read them again?

[memingoapp]

Not what I meant

[thingsiwannareblog]

I may be feeling kinda rough today, but at least I’m not the person who, when sent a follow-up email to remind them about something they were supposed to do, started their reply with:

“Sorry <boss name>, this one slipped through my cracks!”

[locke-esque-monster]

I got an email from one of my coworkers today, where earlier in the chain that same male coworker forgot he said of me "[My initials] will eat us alive."

I'm not sure I've had more professional pride (or feminist pride) than being referred to as a Eldritch horror that strikes fear into the hearts of men.