NBR: Coworker vent

ECUGirl2004 · July 2009

I have a coworker who I have to email almost every day, and we probably email more than once a day on most days. Every single email that she sends me is marked as "Low Importance." Even if I email her and mark it as "high importance" (which I really only do if it's something I feel is very important that needs immediate attention), when she replies, she marks it "low importance." It irritates the CRAP out of me! It makes me think that every thing that she does for me she thinks is unimportant.

I'm in such a foul mood today that I keep thinking of bringing it up in an email response to her. I want to say something like "By the way, did you realize that every email that you send me is marked as "Low Importance"?" and just leaving it at that. Would that be wrong?

Evans · July 2009

I would find it annoying too. Who even uses that feature? High Importance, yes, but Low Importance is not something I would waste my time on setting - but maybe that is just me.

I may phrase it as, "just a head's up but I think you may have your email defaulted to Low Importance, because every email I get from you is marked as such."

That way, if she didn't do it on purpose, she will figure out how to fix it and if she has been, she will fix it anyway because I doubt she would say "No, they are low importance to me and it is on purpose."

raceyrae · July 2009

I like Evans suggestion. I don't get why anyone would waste their time with low importance. I only use high when it really is urgent etc. I've seen low importance emails come through if they were for seminars or something that were just an FYI.