Email Overload Means We’re Never Not Working
For the last three nights (or four, I guess, counting today), I have basically forgone my social life, gone straight home after work, and just kept emailing and doing things. It’s been kind of awesome - and my inbox has been under 30 emails for four days straight, which is pretty great. I’ve been finishing up at about 3AM every night.
But it means I’ve literally done nothing but work while I awake - and 90% of that has been email. It’s ridiculous.
And a vacation? Forget it. if you don’t check at least once a day you are SCREWED when you get back to work. Every ounce of therapeutic benefits will be gone within seconds of checking your email monday morning. No choice but to hit it a little bit each day.
My partner, Keith, is on a two week vacation right now and seems pretty removed from email. I do not envy him. I also don’t expect to really be able actually talk to him for like 3 days after he returns.
We still encourage and allow this at work, but, man, I dont’ envy the off-the-grid vacationers.
(via rickwebb)
My wife and I tried to go on vacation this week. We came back home after one day. Work overwhelmed us both to the point we simply could not function or relax. But I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing right now. This is the time for this.
(via evangotlib)
I’m in one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. I’m on vacation for ten days. I’ve been checking my e-mail several times a day. There’s just so much going on. I can’t help it. But that’s okay. As Evan says: this is the time for this.
(via mikehudack)
For the last 3 years, I’ve been so damn excited about everything that’s going on online that I really dislike being on vacation. I dislike weekends sometimes for the same reason. I don’t want a break form my work. I don’t want “time off”. Time off from my work right now feels like punishment.
(via tanya77)
This month marks my 23rd year since getting online…you all need to occasionally get away & play a bit. And remember the point of email is it doesn’t interrupt you INSTANTLY like say a phone call or a tweet or a Facebook status update. None of us is that indispensible
