I Just Called To Say, I Emailed You!!!
By singlemommy
@singlemommy (2955)
United States
April 9, 2009 10:41pm CST
Earlier this week my employer decided to give me my own company email address. This was supposed to help eliminate me having to called many people during the day, instead I could email them. I was okay with it, it isn't really a big deal to me. Well, today I was working and my warehouse manager came across the intercom and paged me to call him at his extension. I called him and he said, "I just want you to know that I sent you an email that you need to read". 
I'm sorry, but I found this funny. They gave me email to help eliminate me having to call people and talk to them and now they want to call me just to tell me to read my email. I just think that it defeats the purpose. Now, I'm wasting time talking to him about him wanting me to read my email, then after I read the email, I had to email him back.
Have you ever had someone call you just to tell you to read your email or something to that affect? Crazy, isn't it?
I'm sorry, but I found this funny. They gave me email to help eliminate me having to call people and talk to them and now they want to call me just to tell me to read my email. I just think that it defeats the purpose. Now, I'm wasting time talking to him about him wanting me to read my email, then after I read the email, I had to email him back.
Have you ever had someone call you just to tell you to read your email or something to that affect? Crazy, isn't it?5 people like this
26 responses
@tigerdragon (4297)
• Philippines
20 Apr 09
actually, that is good business practice to make sure that you did receive the email or fax. you see, technology is not only to do away the petty things in life but to also to do away with paper. it is a practical medium , a tool to make things easier to transmute documents but if it is just a hello letter and they call up to ask if you have received it then that is funny.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
13 Apr 09
no I haven't that is pretty crazy too me. Unless he thought since you never had an email before you might forget about it.
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@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
13 Apr 09
That is just defeating the purpose. People do very silly things.
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@theweerouss (982)
• United States
11 Apr 09
This seems to happen all the time where I work. I admit, it does seem kind of foolish at first, to call someone to tell them you emailed them or received their email, but sometimes I find it can be a great tool when someone is avoiding their emails, or if they simply have too many unread messages in their inbox and you want to make sure your message gets prioritized. I'll sometimes call even just as a follow-up to say, "hey, FYI, big info in your inbox, let me know if you have any questions" similar to if I had sent a fax and I want to confirm that the recipient actually got it. It is crazy though, to have all this technology making things "more efficient," when sometimes it seems it just creates more work!
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@Citychic (4067)
• United States
12 Apr 09
I just called to say , check ur email........
Wow, that was really crazy. I thought that email was supposed to be something of a personal nature and that you could check it at ur own convience not when somebody tell you to.........
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
10 Apr 09
That does kinda defeat the purpose as you say but they also use less time on the phone talking about it and it is easier to just send mass emails so that you won't have to keep repeating yourself over and over again on the phone about the same thing. Well, I hope that it has helped productivity some.
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
10 Apr 09
Ok, I am sorry, but that is just dumb. My brother called me the other day to let me know that he PayPal'ed me some money since he does not have his debit card yet and he wanted me to take the money out for him. I was sitting in front of the computer when he called me.
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
10 Apr 09
He may have just known of it's importance and wanted you to know of it's importance as well. Either that or he'd emailed you earlier in the day and had forgotten and when he paged you and you called back he'd remembered he'd emailed so he said "I emailed you" instead of what he was initially going to say?
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@nanajanet (4436)
• United States
10 Apr 09
PLEASE.... give this man a clue for Christmas!! LOL
It takes all kinds of people to make up the world.
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@celticeagle (189917)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Apr 09
I do the same thing. Just to verify that they do read it. I have friends call or email me- Did you get my email? It is a human thing. We all want to be recognized and I think too that we get inpatient and want it five minutes ago. And, I get ansy to just be sure it is done before I forget so I might call because of that. Crazy it is but I can sort of see why this person called. I will wager that in afew days all will be organized, everyone will know you have your own email address and they won't be calling.
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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10 Apr 09
Hi singlemommy,
That happened to me when a friend of my rang me up and told me whe sent me an e-mail about such and such, so I told her I won't need to read it now as she just told me about it now, so what is the poin of sending me an e-mail eh? silly.
Tamara
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@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
10 Apr 09
I don't think he will make a habit of calling you each time after he sent you an e-mail. He probably wanted to know something right away.
The problem with e-mail is that people's expectations are raised. They want instant results.
I had a manager once who spent most of her days sending e-mails to her staff. She expected that the notification that told you an e-mails had arrived was on at all times. If you did not get back to her within the hour she would come around to your work station and demand an answer. Since it was a very busy job I was in the habit of reading my e-mails twice a day at a specific time. Obviously this was not good enough for her so I had to interrupt whatever I was doing each time I saw that an e-mail had arrived from her desk.
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
10 Apr 09
That's funny! Although I know why he did it, at my last job I would get email and not know it because the computer wasn't configured to make a sound when email was received. I adjusted it to ding when it received an email and to show the little envelope at the bottom in case I was out of the room and missed the ding.
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@worldbestwriter2008 (1633)
• Philippines
10 Apr 09
yeah. nice to know you have started this discussion ..i would like to say now in here..that I'm one of a kind...who is calling the person i just recently image on the day..i would like to make it sure that sombebody have received my email..and that receiver should have a quick replies..i experience not to call and it happen my email is important and the person wasn't able to read it..so it's very regretful..she/he didn't know that you have email
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
10 Apr 09
That is funny! I can see why he did it though because I have been waiting for replies to emails that will be read god knows when and I have felt like phoning the person but I sent a text instead!
What made me smile was that the email system was introduced in order to cut back on phone calls!
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