{"id":58,"date":"2012-01-09T21:23:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T02:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2025-05-12T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:10:01","slug":"this-is-why-email-is-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/this-is-why-email-is-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why email is terrible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a rather interesting email thread go on at work that I wanted to illustrate, but it seemed too boring once I thought it through, so I just decided to draw a picture of what I thought was really happening through email:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/shesawitch-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"355\" data-id=\"59\" src=\"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/shesawitch-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59\" title=\"shesawitch\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/shesawitch-1.png 544w, https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/shesawitch-1-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, maybe it&#8217;s going a bit overboard comparing my situation to the Salem witch trials. But there is a lot that people can do to avoid a situation where it makes one person feel like they are being ganged up on for no reason other than to pass the time.&nbsp;A few pointers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Before you jump to conclusions, make sure your facts are straight. You don&#8217;t want to end up looking like an idiot when the &#8220;witch&#8221; turns out to be right in the end.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the &#8220;witch&#8221; admits wrong-doing or ignorance, it&#8217;s not necessary to ask further questions like, &#8220;why&#8221; or &#8220;who told you that&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most problems with miscommunication can be easily cleared up with a 2 minute IM or phone call. Dragging something out in an email thread with multiple people cc&#8217;ed does not help the situation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a rather interesting email thread go on at work that I wanted to illustrate, but it seemed too boring once I thought it through, so I just decided to draw a picture of what I thought was really happening through email: Ok, maybe it&#8217;s going a bit overboard comparing my situation to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}