My Inbox
I returned to work yesterday after three weeks away; well prepared I thought. Just how wrong can you be?
Alarm set, clothes ready, make-up to hand, train times checked to make sure the summer timetable hasn’t kicked in yet. I had even prepared myself for navigating across the new Birmingham New Street station concourse which has opened during my absence.
So far so good. A little shaky perhaps but I managed to get to my desk without turning tail.
I even remembered my 2 security passwords straight away and logged in to my computer without effort.
Then disaster.
After all my planning and fortitude what I hadn’t prepared for were the 4,894 emails waiting for me when my laptop booted up. I couldn’t believe it; almost 5,000 emails……
Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh! Sabotage.
I gave up after deleting 500 of them and came to the conclusion that if something is outstanding and is really urgent, they will email me again. Not the approach I would normally take but needs must sometimes.
Hey, ho.
Onwards and upwards.
Poppyposts 
Remember that you are more important than any one of those emails or indeed those emails combined. Hang in there – big hugs.
Thank you-it did freak me out a bit I have to admit 😦
I think I would have left for the nearest coffee shop. You in Brum permanently now?
Well, funny you should say that…….I will write about Day 2 after my dinner 🙂 Yes I am permanently in Birmingham not far from St Philips 😀 at One Snow Hill.
Sounds great. Let me know all about it if you can
Well done for making it back to your desk so quickly. Hope rest of week goes well. (and that was best thing to do with the emails :-)!)
Thank you! Read on! I’m hoping that tomorrow onwards things will improve now I have got it out of my system. Yes, I agree about the emails 😀 Ridiculous.
Ack! I cannot imagine! How horrifying! That’s crazy! Glad you handled it well.
Wouldn’t it be fun to just dump the whole bunch and start over? Wishful thinking perhaps. 🙂