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Work e-mail I try to read everything. Personal e-mail is a loving mess outside of the main Inbox in Gmail.
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I read all my work mail, but admittedly I get fair less than most of you due to having a dispatcher in the company receiving tickets and sending them out. Personal email is a hell. I don't do anything do it and just check it every couple days unless I'm waiting for something.
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Nov 2, 2015 22:56
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yeah my personal email is a shitbox, I have a specific other email I setup for my resume, but my gmail account is a blackhole and I don't think there's anyway to recover from it. I have important stuff ruled into a few different folders (plane tickets, concert tickets, poo poo like that), otherwise the inbox is a cesspool of management failure.
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Nov 2, 2015 22:58
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I have 3254 unread messages in my inbox.
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Nov 2, 2015 23:11
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I use Inbox for Gmail. Pin things I want to read, mark everything else done to sweep it away. Then read/respond to the few important things. I just wish inbox marked as read when it was sweeping.
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Nov 2, 2015 23:25
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I just hit delete on anything that is automated or irrelevant. Things that might come in handy later goes into an archive folder, and anything I need to follow up on remains in the inbox until I've followed up on it, then it goes into the archive folder too. At the moment I have three emails in my inbox.
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Nov 2, 2015 23:51
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Very interesting, thanks all for chiming in. This could almost be an interview question at this rate! I often look at non-IT/management, and they have unread emails in the thousands... I bite my tongue, and shall continue to do so. flosofl posted:I was out last week due to an unexpected death (not mine) 
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Nov 3, 2015 00:11
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Any folder containing mail where I am a direct recipient or the sender is on a pertinent list (direct chain of authority, team member, contract staff), unread: 0. Any folder containing mass bullshit e-mails that 400 other people got and I probably don't even have anything to do with, unread: 10k+. Archive poo poo every 6 months. Delete never. gently caress whoever manages our PST storage.
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Nov 3, 2015 00:17
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gmail autofilter for all alerts to mark as read and tag it 'alerts' also mark all as read keyboard shortcut: SHIFT *i*n
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Nov 3, 2015 00:22
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adorai posted:I have 3254 unread messages in my inbox. I have 17405. Step it up.
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Nov 3, 2015 00:32
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Toshimo posted:Archive poo poo every 6 months. Delete never. gently caress whoever manages our PST storage.
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Nov 3, 2015 00:36
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Same, no PSTs for anyone - you can still access any you had before the policy went into effect, but otherwise tough poo poo. 2GB for peons, 4GB for managers, 6GB for directors, 10GB+online archiving for anyone higher than that. No exceptions to the rule, we verify your title with HR.
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Nov 3, 2015 00:45
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Collateral Damage posted:We have a group policy that completely disables creating or accessing PST files in Outlook. Everyone has 4GB of primary mailbox and 10GB of online archive, hard limits. If you hit that, tough poo poo, start deleting. LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE HELL THAT IS MY LIFE! No online archive. Unlimited PST files. PST files saved to local disk and backed up nightly via dumbass ROBOCOPY. If your laptop isn't powered on and connected to the network at 10pm TOUGH poo poo. Took that poo poo home for telework and your VPN connection dropped at 8pm? TOUGH poo poo. Absolutely no monitoring to determine if backups work. If you have a non-standard image and your PST files aren't in the proper partition and folder TOUGH poo poo. Want to know what retention policy is on e-mail? TOUGH poo poo. Nobody knows and everyone gives you a different answer that they "heard from a dude lol SarbanesOxley never delete nuffin' YOLO".
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Nov 3, 2015 00:45
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PS: I'm theoretically responsible for about 90 users and all their dumbass PST files but I can't even UNC their loving machines because lolpermissions and no we can't give you admin on those boxes go manage them with user level permissions IM GONNA GO DRINK NOW.
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Nov 3, 2015 00:47
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:I have 17405. Step it up. 
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Nov 3, 2015 00:48
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After 60 days, email just silently gets purged. I didn't know and wasn't told this when is started. I got to discover it for myself! (it took me 6 months, right until i did a search trying to find an email I know existed at one time) Now, I have a local archive file.
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Nov 3, 2015 03:45
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I had a job where corporate blocked PSTs but everyone at my branch including the CEO were like "gently caress corporate, get then back", so I removed our read permission from the GPO and corporate never caught on. I left years ago and my old boss says they still haven't noticed.
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Nov 3, 2015 04:13
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82% off list on this quote; somebody wants to move some units.
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Nov 3, 2015 05:16
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My manager has an unruly inbox and it is a pet-peeve of mine when she replies to a message from the beginning of the chain instead of the end. It is not that hard to sort by subject and grab the most recent one to see where the conversation has gone.
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Nov 3, 2015 05:51
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Bhodi posted:I found out my director reads no email at all when he gets back from vacation. Just marks it all read and moves on with his life, figuring anyone who really needs anything will just ask him for it again. I think this is a good way to go about it otherwise you've wasted a day or two after returning to the office just checking up on email. Just include a line in your out-of-office to the effect of 'I am now on vacation and won't be responding to emails, if your message is important please contact [coworker not on vacation] or contact me when I return on [date]. Any emails received will not be read'. My directors get hundreds of emails in and it's frustrating when they get back from time off because they spend all day checking to see if any are important. Is...is this a photograph of a computer screen?. This needs to be printed out first and scanned to a PDF before attaching to a post.
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Nov 3, 2015 11:04
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tomapot posted:My manager has an unruly inbox 
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Nov 3, 2015 13:28
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Toshimo posted:Any folder containing mass bullshit e-mails that 400 other people got and I probably don't even have anything to do with, unread: 10k+. Users ignoring e-mails sent out to the whole company (like outage announcements, or announcements to change passwords) and users storing an unnecessary about of poo poo in the trash. Isn't this the exact sort of poo poo we bitch about when users do it?
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Nov 3, 2015 14:21
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PCjr sidecar posted:82% off list on this quote; somebody wants to move some units. IT list prices are total bullshit though
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Nov 3, 2015 15:01
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1 gig mailbox, hard limit. No archiving, no psts. No exceptions, mandated by the CEO. Owns.
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Nov 3, 2015 15:19
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I use to get in this argument with an old boss of mine all the time. He had a million different things that sent email alerts. I would get on average 400 a day. So I just made a rule to move them to a folder and would use Outlooks search if I needed to find something. Then they got deleted after 2 weeks. He wanted me and the rest of my team to read them all, because "they are all important". If everything is important than nothing is.
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Nov 3, 2015 15:21
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I just got laid off from a place that was like this. I got on average 200 alerts a day. Could easily triple that if they restarted/reloading something major. I just had them filter to folders and would only look every so often or if I suddenly got dozens at once. The rest of the team would watch every one on their phones. It was almost always just them being nosy. Nothing was ever done to address any of these emails. The best that happened was I could brace myself for the calls.
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Nov 3, 2015 15:27
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Thanks Ants posted:IT list prices are total bullshit though True; a quote with less than 50% off list is a polite way of telling you to gently caress off.
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Nov 3, 2015 15:29
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I have a coworker who does that.. "I'll set up an email alert when this job runs so if it fails we'll notice that the email doesn't arrive." Uh, no. You're not going to notice one email not arriving in the flood of 50 others every day.captkirk posted:Users ignoring e-mails sent out to the whole company (like outage announcements, or announcements to change passwords) and users storing an unnecessary about of poo poo in the trash. Isn't this the exact sort of poo poo we bitch about when users do it?
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Nov 3, 2015 15:39
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On the notification front: what do you guys use? Right now we're using IP Sentry to ping certain IPs and send an email when they're down. We also have it sending as a text message if it's a high-importance outage. The annoying thing about that is, since it's just sending to [number]@mms.att.net, I end up with a seperate thread for each and every alert because the carrier treats messages coming through that address as a new sender each time.
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Nov 3, 2015 15:57
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For SMS notifications we just have an old nokia phone with a prepaid sim with free texts connected via serial cable to our nagios server. A nagios script then calls gnokii which sends a text message from the phone. Cheap and simple, and works if the internet connection goes down as well.
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Collateral Damage posted:For SMS notifications we just have an old nokia phone with a prepaid sim with free texts connected via serial cable to our nagios server. A nagios script then calls gnokii which sends a text message from the phone. Cheap and simple, and works if the internet connection goes down as well. 
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Nov 3, 2015 16:09
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Vulture Culture posted:Yikes I think that's a hilarious/awesome solution.
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Nov 3, 2015 16:31
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CloFan posted:On the notification front: what do you guys use? Right now we're using IP Sentry to ping certain IPs and send an email when they're down. We also have it sending as a text message if it's a high-importance outage. The annoying thing about that is, since it's just sending to [number]@mms.att.net, I end up with a seperate thread for each and every alert because the carrier treats messages coming through that address as a new sender each time. Using Nagios and have been pleased with it once I got everything setup how I liked. No need for text message notifications so I havent messed with yet. I might start playing around with graphing and cool displays one day when I have time.
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Nov 3, 2015 16:43
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Collateral Damage posted:For SMS notifications we just have an old nokia phone with a prepaid sim with free texts connected via serial cable to our nagios server. A nagios script then calls gnokii which sends a text message from the phone. Cheap and simple, and works if the internet connection goes down as well. ITAPPMONFONE
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Nov 3, 2015 16:47
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PagerDuty.
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Nov 3, 2015 17:00
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nexus6 posted:Is...is this a photograph of a computer screen?. This needs to be printed out first and scanned to a PDF before attaching to a post. Don't be an idiot, it's very difficult to get a screenshot off my work computer due to security measures. CLAM DOWN fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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Nov 3, 2015 17:12
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PCjr sidecar posted:PagerDuty. Yup, Pagerduty with a combination of New Relic and Nagios alerting. My goal is to move alerts completely out of email.
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Nov 3, 2015 17:13
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A computer in our network had no antivirus/malware for 2 1/2 years  It had three or four adware popups when I first remoted in. I know that's not necessarily related, but Jesus.
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Nov 3, 2015 17:19
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CLAM DOWN posted:Don't be an idiot, it's very difficult to get a screenshot off my work computer due to security measures. Pretty sure it was a joke, dude.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Don't be an idiot, it's very difficult to get a screenshot off my work computer due to security measures. That sucks man. I feel bad for anybody who works in a place where they lock down the computers like that. Anyways, about to start a League game on my work computer for our weekly 'team building' activity.
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