Emails lots of them!

[Tea123e]

How to nicely bring up topic of email overload at my job? I’ve worked in the same industry for years and lots of different places. This place is crazy, email after email. We all work close together (social distancing observed well). I don’t see the point in whole departmental emails. Why not just send to people who need to know. I spend my entire day filtering through rubbish I don’t need to be aware of and it doesn’t affect me at all. I feel I’m wasting time reading through rubbish. How to nicely bring topic up?

It’s nothing to do with covid as even before this it was the same but it’s annoying me more recently.

Is there ever a nice way of saying this or shall I just stay quiet? Also why do some people feel the need to CC in everyone when it doesn’t affect them?

oooh i feel your pain!

we have some people at my work who CC the world and their mother into every email!

and also the worst are the ones that REPLY TO ALL.... my boss has had to kindly remind people not to bloody do it!

if its getting too much, id have a word with your line manager who could possibly let everyone know about email etiquette

We went over to having a bulletin daily to avoid so many emails.

Same here IO - does my head in. People cc’ing everyone into “thanks” emails and other shit. I’ve put it on the agenda for the next team meeting to say only email me if necessary!