My manager sends me a teams message everytime she sends me an email

[Stripitout]

To tell me she’s sent me an email

Anyone got either a suitable response which won’t get me sacked or a funny response which will

Sorry I would have been sacked a long time ago 😂

This would drive me mad!

Omg that’s terrible. But you can mute teams chats ..

Surely this is where the thumbs up emoji comes into its own?

I used to work with someone like this. It was before Teams so he used to pop their head up and tell me he had sent me an email. I just used to say thanks. In this scenario I’d either ignore or do a thumbs up 👍

Why are people like this? although I did have to teams a colleague to look at her inbox as she doesn’t look at her e-mails till after lunch and had a time critical issue. Even marking it as urgent it’s ’nope After lunch!’ if you are on top of your e-mails though this is micro managing.

Unless you rarely check your email, this is overkill and doubling your workload almost.

I would reply in teams 'What's it about?' every time.. Demonstrate how annoying it is.

Does it take you too long to reply to an email normally?

I'd have got in trouble 😂

"Oh thanks for letting me know, did the pigeon you attached it to go in the wrong direction"

"Perfect, I'll get round to it tomorrow"

"An email? Could you please send it via chat?"

If it’s true, I’d just respond once to say “No worries. Always have my inbox open alongside Teams so I’ve seen it drop in. No need to flag going forward”

I used to have a boss like this, so much micromanaging.

Honestly, I used to ignore the teams message and purposefully ignore the email for an extra 15 mins or so.

I quit that job because it was making me into that kind of petty person!!

Kill with kindness. Say “you don’t need to teams me when you send me an email, I have created an outlook rule, so that a loud notification sound goes off and it goes into a special folder”

“So I see”

Unless your job is literally answering emails, it's not good practice to be constantly monitoring your inbox as you're at risk of spending all your time on emails and not having time to do your actual job. Therefore, she shouldn't be expecting you to jump on emails as soon as they arrive, because this isn't an efficient way to work.

If she emails you, then it's not urgent and can wait a few hours until you next check your inbox. If it's urgent she can speak to you (a novel concept, I know) or send a Teams message, but not email as well because that's just unnecessary duplication.

Teams: Ignore every time.
Reply to other message from her and she will get the hint

Simply say…

‘Back the fuck up, BIATCH!’.

My line manager always asks for “a word”, for everything that could be an email or quick Teams message. That’s way more annoying!

I'm a manager and have a team member who does this. He also messages to say he's going to phone me in a few minutes.

A heads up about a call is totally different and actually quite considerate.

@helpfulperson that's probably because a lot of people consider a surprise phone call to be 'triggering' and aggressive so it seems it's now an expectation that everyone is pre-warned before being called.

Why?

I can understand at home to see if it's convenient, but if you're at work you don't get a choice, surely?

Bonkers

If you’re in the office you might want to move into a meeting room or somewhere quiet.

You might be in the middle of something and it’s courteous to know is all.