How many is a barrage of emails?

[RechargeableGnu]

Just that - if someone was being bombarded or barraged with emails, how many emails in numbers would that be in your eyes? And in what time frame?

AIBU - can't find a figure on Google!

@Thepeopleversuswork

I've opened up emails in previous jobs and there's been at least 50 every morning .

Companies have got better at insisting 'reply all' is not used , email groups are used so there's been a huge reduction in receiving irrelevant emails . There is a culture of assuming people are responsible enough to respond in a timely manner ... we've had one email chasing people up ... and that was related to a new data input system .

Of course if a matter is urgent and needs a response on my day off then that is fine but the company has other systems in place that accounts for part timers .

The person who was emailing me could source the information themselves... there was a definite power play on their part and the time was abrupt and aggressive .

Just to add , my husband attended a tribunal and his company was pulled up
On sending emails at 10pm ( he was a senior director ) although the company said there was no expectation for people to respond ,the tribunal disagreed.

We are very much a schedule send company .

Our company has a team that deals specifically with out of hours issues that arise !

Noticeably more than what you reasonably wanted and expected under the circumstances.

I wouldn't consider that 'a barrage' - they were different queries, which may have been justified or might not.

I mean, personally, if I were the other person, I'd have come over to your desk / walked into your office / called you on Teams if you were in different places, and said "I've got a few queries with this, have you got 10 mins now to go through things with me?", although, if she were working down the document, and hadn't expected to need to ask about several things, I can understand asking the first question as she came across it.

If the cc'd people can't answer the queries, then that seems a bit of an odd thing to do.

However, 'a barrage of e-mails' suggests to me that you are being asked the same thing over and over because they didn't get an instant reply.

I work part time . Etiquette ( unsaid - it's become the culture as led by new boss 6 years ago ) in my company is you do not message on days I'm not in .
I have complained about receiving a barrage of emails ... I used this exact word . I received 3 emails in 2 weeks on my day off from the same person . I saw a pattern developing by this person ... I requested a meeting with my line manager and voiced what I wanted ... they do not email on my days off ... they email other sources first
Haven't had an email since and told I acted professionally and they shared my concern up the chain just in case it was made out I was being obstructive

How ridiculous.

E-mails are asyncromatic. The person with the query sends them when they are working on something, and the recipient opens, reads and responds to them when they are ready to.

I've worked PT for years, but would not expect all colleagues to remember all the different working patterns of every person they ever need to contact so they don't send them when that person isn't working. Do expect everyone to memorise when different people are on leave, or are off sick too ?

This is one of the more ludicrous thoughts I've read on here in a long time.

@NewName24

I've worked PT for years, but would not expect all colleagues to remember all the different working patterns of every person they ever need to contact so they don't send them when that person isn't working. Do expect everyone to memorise when different people are on leave, or are off sick too ?

I completely agree, that is utterly ridiculous. Expecting people never to send an email outside of working hours and never when people are on leave or sick or whatever is absurdly bureaucratic. If this were to be mandated in law and implemented more widely a lot of companies would go to the wall: it's completely unworkable.

I find this sort of growing preciousness about electronic communication really childish and counterproductive. Yes its important to be respectful but etiquette shouldn't trump the need for work to get done. In any case no is holding a gun to your head and demanding you respond to email on your day off. Be a grown-up and just ignore it.

I work part time . Etiquette ( unsaid - it's become the culture as led by new boss 6 years ago ) in my company is you do not message on days I'm not in .
I have complained about receiving a barrage of emails ... I used this exact word . I received 3 emails in 2 weeks on my day off from the same person . I saw a pattern developing by this person ... I requested a meeting with my line manager and voiced what I wanted ... they do not email on my days off ... they email other sources first

If you came to me as your line manager complaining that you'd got 3 emails in 2 weeks on your day off, and were expecting all your colleagues to remember your work patterns for asynchronous communication tools, I'd definitely be intervening. I'd look to put you on an informal development plan because you don't understand office efficiency. Imagine if the CEO couldn't email anyone on their day off. Lol.

And even if something were an issue, the first question you should be prepared to answer is: what happend when you attempted to fix this yourself? Basic stakeholder management is part of most jobs where you work with people. If you go running to your line manager as the first course of action with nonsense like this, you're performing worse than a new grad on day 1. Honestly, what a ridiculous thing to do in a professional environment.

Six in one day.

So she sent you questions, you answered and then she sent up follow up questions? Am I missing something that sounds like a normal conversation to me!

It sounds a bit quick paced, but you must have been replying just as fast. I can see it'd a bit annoying for the others copied in if they didn't need to be, but if she's saying stuff that's wrong she just making herself look bad.

A couple if some of the people I know are anything to go by.

Very difficult to get your head around if you've done a job where emails arrive every few seconds and are pinging backwards and forwards.

You do not message on days I'm not in.
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I received 3 emails in 2 weeks on my day off from the same person.
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What parallel universe is this?!

Honestly laughing my head off at this. I can just see some of the bosses I've worked for dealing with this. I suggest you don't change jobs or you'll be in for a nasty surprise.

This sounds like the rare occasion when it 'should have been a meeting' rather than the other way round!

yeah arguably entering barrage territory, supported by the fact they weren’t taking time to read your responses 😂

unless they view email more like instant messaging?