An Average Email Recipient List
If you work in an office and your particular office is technologically forward-thinking enough to use electronic mail, you undoubtedly receive too many emails. Most of them may have nothing to do with you, yet you still get them. Here’s an archetypal email recipient list that might help you gain some insight into why you got that email.
SUBJECT: Revised layouts for Project Big Deal
SENDER: Greg Coworkerson
SENT: Tuesday 7:02pm
TO:
- The one person who needed the revised layouts
- The project manager for Project Big Deal that Greg copies on absolutely every email…just in case
- Greg’s boss, whom he is trying to impress by working after 5pm
- Greg’s boss’s boss because, eh, it couldn’t hurt
- Someone with a name similar to someone Greg meant to send the email to. He get’s a little happy with Outlook’s autocomplete feature.
- Greg. Because Greg doesn’t get how the “sent mail” folder works.
- Greg’s mom. Sorry, autocomplete again.
- The account manager on Project Big Deal. She doesn’t need the revised layouts, but Greg is really into her and this is his misguided attempt to flirt.
