Talking to ourselves
Me: I can’t have told you, I had some really good news about (insert topic here)DD: yes you did
Me: Oh. You didn’t say anything.
DD: I didn’t realize you needed a reply. I was pleased for you.
It certainly isn't just me she 'ignores'. She is a project manager in an international corporation, very good at her job, very efficient, and gets really irritated when colleagues complain she hasn't replied to emails. She was asked to do something, she did it, they wanted a reply as WELL??
I say it's a courtesy to reply and confirms you received the information. She says that's not modern practice. (Yeah? but your colleagues complain?)
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I know what you mean. Some ladies I write to a on a dating site about inserting topics, I know they read, delete, reject, or block my message, but yet they don’t reply to confirm.
Geesh!
I didn't really mean to include mails on CS
Eish.
I have said more than once that I am old-fashioned, and I expect a response
There are many bloggers doing exactly the same, of course. Some don't respond at all, some cherrypick part of what you said and ignore the rest, and some reply at boring length (I know, I know, bite me)
The problem with what your friend is doing is that she is actually adding to her inbox issue. When she doesn't answer back, the other person will email her again, thus adding more emails to her inbox.
One thing I know I do which can possibly annoy some people is that if there is more than one subject matter in an email, I probably won't address them all. So if you want an answer to one particular subject, just mention that subject and hold off on the others
Every time someone has a whinge at her someone else, usually more senior, will jump in and support her, so she's not about to change. I did wonder if it was becoming a trend, the tutoring college I teach for send out dozens a day (deletedeletedeletedeleterecurring) and never expect a reply.
There are some colleagues cursed the other way, they'd be 'thanks for (a)' (well, sometimes they said thanks) 'you didn't reply yet about (b) or (c)' even though I had already said I'd reply to those separately ...
Do not miss those days at ALL. Now I get about 1 business email a week and leap on it with happy cries of money money money YAY
I don't personally care how she runs her business correspondence, though, it just grates me when the same attitude tips over into family