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For those of you with busy careers/families how do you manage email/whatsapp/texts etc

26 replies

crawlingovertheline · 26/04/2026 10:51

I’ve not counted recently but I reckon I get more than 100 emails a day, work and private, plus 10-20ish WhatsApp messages plus occasional texts, messenger messages etc. I feel constantly overwhelmed and stressed because I’ve not got back to someone or I’m looking like I’m ghosting someone (example of this might be someone I don’t know sends me their CV then follows up with 3 WhatsApp messages to check I’ve got it.

Any advice on how we’re meant to cope with this in the modern world? Historically we’d open the post and a secretary would answer letters, or someone would phone then when you leave the office you can no longer take that call.

Im not a brilliant communicator at the best of times and just find it all really hard to cope with. urgh.

Any advice?

YABU - it’s life, get on with it!
YANBU- agree, it’s a modern problem

OP posts:
marsbarslice · 26/04/2026 12:45

Duckswaddle · 26/04/2026 12:39

It’s the feeling of constantly being available. Prior to Covid, if you left the office at 5 then that was it until the next day. Now people work basically 24/7, factor in family stuff and friends and it never stops.

But that's a choice. I run my own business and don't respond to anything work-related between 7pm-7am. They can wait.

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