Communications - Catch 22!

Didn't know that I was such a dumb ass that I wasted an hour of my lunch time to tango with my boss on office communication. Well the squawk is that too much emails, people also get offended, not kept in the loop people also get unhappy and when you wanna talk to them face-to-face - people is either no time for you or out of office.

So is it a case where when people needs something from you, it's okay for them to send chaser emails to you or even suddenly be nice to you but if it's the other way round then the "Please Do Not Disturb"sign will be super obvious lor. :)



I'm not a fan of emails and whenever I can, I prefer to talk to people either over the phone or face to face unless you have a bloody pukeable face lah. But I have to agree with my boss that emails biggest advantage is efficiency but its biggest disadvantage is that it lacks feelings or emotions. My point of writing emails is simply for efficiency as we have so much to do daily and I try to be as simple and short as possible and if you need clarifications, you can always approach or ring me. So yeah it's true my emails may not have the emotional droppings here and there like my blog posts lah, whahahaha. But it gets the job of delivering the salient points of the message across mah, right?

I guess perhaps people who often gets offended with emails are simply cause they get too much work requests and get stress about it. Perhaps, you should look at how to manage your life and take it easy rather then getting emails to stress you out and let emails manage your life. Of course with technology of smartphones blah blah blah, it can gets harder but then there is always the "Sleep" mode or switch off button.

At the end of the day, I may sound arrogant to my boss but we are all paid to do the job and friends at the office can be a fringe benefit but not necessary something that I would want to enjoy. Besides professionalism is so passé these days, given the among of KPIs that we have to deliver and meet, so if you can't take the heat then you shouldn't be where you are bitching about it. You wanna save your ass then so do I.

Well the joke that I shared with my boss about this discussion about some of the folks mentioned was that if they don't want so many emails then they don't be some bloody "kaypoh"and asked to be kept in to the loop for everything under the sun lah. "Kiang tio ho, mai ke kiang mah", meaning smart can already, don't try to act smart! Guess people most of the time never learn until they reach the point of a big regret.

At this point, it reminded me of an article that I read sometime back that the most successful people don't read their emails first thing in the morning once they get out bed. Think only the successful wannabes are the ones who think they are when they do that.

So you wanna talk to someone then be careful who you are talking to and what you are talking about and worst if it's an email. So caveat emptor everyone, be happy and don't lose sleep or hair over it lah. :)