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PSA: I used to print out every single email for filing and it took me hours every Friday.
My old boss in the data entry office made us do it, said it was 'for the record'. When I moved to the new billing department, my manager just had us save everything to a shared folder with clear names. I mean, it cut my end of week clean up from like three hours down to maybe twenty minutes. Has anyone else had a company rule that was just a huge time waster for no real reason?
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noran212mo ago
My last place required three separate sign-offs in wet ink for any purchase over fifty bucks, even for a box of pens.
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gibson.seth10d ago
Three sign-offs for a box of pens? That's wild. But this guy's saying the original post was about printing every single email, not about sign-offs. The wet ink thing is a different kind of stuck up bureaucracy, but it doesn't really connect to the whole "I used to print everything out" problem. The real issue there was having a physical file for every single message, which is just nuts when you think about how fast email piles up. That shared folder trick your new manager taught you sounds like the real solution to the original post's problem.
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