I wandered over to my client manager’s desk. I had a changes to go into a release, and she hadn’t responded to the system emails asking for her approval. It was the first week of January, and the fix needed to be in the next week. “Oh, I deleted all my emails on January 2nd. I had almost 10,000, and I decided that I just needed to get rid of them because I wasn’t going to get through them.” And in the meantime, changes critical for the users were left undone as we scrambled to resubmit all the changes to the system.
How many emails are in your inbox? If you have thousands, you need an email reset. But don’t delete them outright or just plod through the inbox. Here is a better way.
