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Computer related pet peeves (reddthat.com)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Watched my coworker move her cursor to the right edge of her right-hand monitor to get it to over to the left side of her left-hand monitor. When I offered to show her how to adjust her display settings, she said she was used to it and didn't want to change it. I don't think I can walk by her desk while she's working ever again.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

            
              having hundreds, even thousands of unread emails in their inbox and constantly complain they did not see the email I sent them. Fucking unsubscribe from all the newsletters you don’t read and disable that Jira ticket update spam you don’t need to respond to. Suddenly it’s all manageable because you don’t actually get many important emails!
in general (not just computer related) not learning how to use the tools available to you to solve problems you obviously have

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Quick tip for anyone in this situation.

Start by using search to clear everything in your inbox from a particular sender you know wont have sent anything important.

Don't catch up by going one mail at a time, catch up going one sender at a time. You'll be done within a day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

Don't know why I never thought of this before. Just sorted by sender and was able to crank through a ton of emails.

I'm absolutely guilty of what OP describes as being annoying. My coping mechanisms meant ratcheting down the frequency of monitoring those feeds. No email alerts, ever. Check and respond to email twice daily. Respond to IMs (Teams) hourly. Otherwise, pay attention to the meeting I'm in or the work I'm doing. So if I get sent an email I may not get to it for a while, sometimes not before the meeting I'm being called out on.

But in my role I spend 90% of my day in meetings or joint working sessions. Others with different working profiles would have different strategies and expectations, as does the OP, I suspect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

I've done this, can confirm it works. Unsubscribe from the senders you don't need while you're at it, and the problem will be significantly easier to manage in the future as well!