When I am completely swamped at work, it is possible, that I will get a mail-backlog that spans days. I fell bad about it, but it is simply impossible to answer every message with "sorry, no time right now, will get back to you within the next two to three weeks, I hope". If I would do that, my backlog would increase even more. So I scan for high priority stuff judging by the mail topic and mail-prio. (Although: if a contact abuses the mail-prio, I will start to ignore that for their mails...)
When my supervisor is included in the mail, they will evaluate, wethere or not I should be changing my priorities to working on the mail or not. If they belive I should, they come over and tell me so ^ Since they are the one who give me hell for being late on my regular mountain of work, this is the only way to go, at least for me.
Maybe Alex too has a mountain of work and people breathing down their neck? If so, their supervisor might be the only way to go for you in my experience
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When I am completely swamped at work, it is possible, that I will get a mail-backlog that spans days. I fell bad about it, but it is simply impossible to answer every message with "sorry, no time right now, will get back to you within the next two to three weeks, I hope". If I would do that, my backlog would increase even more. So I scan for high priority stuff judging by the mail topic and mail-prio. (Although: if a contact abuses the mail-prio, I will start to ignore that for their mails...)
When my supervisor is included in the mail, they will evaluate, wethere or not I should be changing my priorities to working on the mail or not. If they belive I should, they come over and tell me so ^ Since they are the one who give me hell for being late on my regular mountain of work, this is the only way to go, at least for me.
Maybe Alex too has a mountain of work and people breathing down their neck? If so, their supervisor might be the only way to go for you in my experience