A Wandering Mind

More often than I’d like, I get e-mails from various folks late in the evening (the record is about 11pm) somewhere along the line of: “This is really urgent and needs to be done EOD today.” Now, I have to assume that either one of two things is going on here:

1. Their End Of Day is different than mine. Not in the time zone sense (though I do occasionally deal with folks offshore), but just in the sense of they work hours beyond the normal workday.
2. They’re being clever and trying to be the first mail in my inbox the next morning.

Now in the case of #1, obviously they’re not readers of my blog. Otherwise, they’d see my prior post where I was pretty clear about my policy with regards to working after hours: high value and emergency work only. That’s not to say there have not been some cases where the work met one or both of those criteria; just merely that most of the time it doesn’t.

In the case of #2, for one I’d laugh because with the sheer volume of e-mail I get, no matter where you end up it’s most likely not at the top of anything. That, and even if you do somehow manage to be the first thing I read in the morning, that in no way affects where in the queue of actions you’ll end up. Guess they’re not subscribers to the GTD style of organization, huh?

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