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Originally Posted by FireFly
When a chain of emails comes through and someone says that I'll have to redo something and the person asking responds back asking if I'll do it... I can read. I see that I need to redo it. Not an idiot. (It was done incorrectly by someone else in the first place).
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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
To be fair though, the person asking isn't a mind reader. Sometimes people "conveniently" forget to see an email, and stuff gets left undone. It's better to get a confirmation email if you're unsure. Really, how hard is it to hit reply and say yes, you're doing it? Takes like 2 seconds.
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Agreed with Yen Man here. All too often I'd see an email chain where at the end responsibility is assigned to someone. A week later I haven't heard anything back from the person who was supposed to complete the work. Did it get done? Was it done and they didn't say anything? I'm left in the dark.
I know I hate being the babysitter, as I guess most people do too, so instead of waiting for that annoying "will you do this?" email, just finish off the chain by saying "okay, I will complete this task and let [x] know when I finish".
Just a view from the other side of the email.