Posts by Julian Foxall

Home Sec in anti-terror plan to control entire web

Call me a cynic, but ....

Remember this is the government that transfers data by CD in the pannier of a courier motorbike - then loses the bloody stuff!!!

Email has workers tearing their hair out

Email gone mad

My boss used to send me emails whilst sitting at the desk just 2 metres right behind me!

A colleague, before going on holiday, warned people on his Out of Office Notice that, as he would be coming back to a mountain of emails, mostly not relevant to him in any way, he would be deleting the whole lot without reading them. Sensible man? His manager didn't think so.

At only one place in my career has proper time manegment been implemented, and colleagues asked to look at their emails only twice a day, maximum. And get off their chairs and go talk to real live people. It worked.