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Discussion on: Why The F**k Won't You Answer My Email?

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Irene Soave

Personally, I believe that no such thing exists as a "constitutional right" to have one's emails responded. When she'll be able to do what you ask, or to provide you with an answer which is more than "ok, thanks", she'll probably do it. No use in mailbombing her. I got on this page searching for the opposite problem: how do I stop my mailbox from overflowing? One answer is: let's please stop considering it a value to promptly respond to any f..ing email one f..ing gets. It is not a value, it is a major time and concentration waste. Stop mailing your colleague already - she'll eventually get back to you and guess why? because she has to, it's her bloody job. In the meanwhile, find yourself something else to do and leave her be!

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Antoinette Maria

I had to re-read this since it was a bit old. Anyway, there's taking some time to answer and then there's not answering at all. Which happens. At the end of the day, if you have a job to do and a lot of the work correspondence is via email, then having a full inbox is just part of the gig and figuring out how to get the job done is part of that too. Acknowledging that you received a message takes about as long as it takes to type "ACK" and press send. There's nothing wrong with letting people know you got their message, even if you can't respond in that moment.