Forwarding E-Mails
…Or Learning to Show Others You Appreciate Their Time… I often find myself receiving forwarded e-mails with little to no context or prior conversation. This baffles me. How could someone feel ok forwarding me an e-mail chain of twenty or so messages and the only notes from the sender is their automated signature block? I immediately trash these… Then comes the inevitable drive-by, “Hey, did you get that e-mail I forwarded you?” Nope, never received it. If someone needs an explanation to make them feel better I will say something like I may have seen it, but at a glance it looked like it was an accidental forward and I canned it. ...