Importance

Email - that ubiquitous form of communication in my life - continues to provide endless annoyances to me. I was emailed by a friend talking about an after-work activity, and the email was sent as a 'high-importance' email. Immediately after, I received another high-priority email from another person giving general information to another person. I was only cc'd at a very general level.

Because of this, I have taken to breaking up my emails into multiple emails along various levels of importance. I'll send the greeting at a low priority, half the body as a moderate, the other half as a low, and the signature as a high. This combined with the cc'ing or bcc'ing of various people to other emails has significantly cut down on the amount of corporate spam I receive, but also has increased the senior manager level interactions I have.

Hey, at least they know my name, right?

Plain old aggressive office toy of the week: remote control car/boat