Someone just sent me an email request with a READ RECEIPT

[Deleted]

Do not appreciate. 

[Captain Serious]

Don't most people? I thought this was standard, and most people just have their settings to automatically send the receipt without asking.

[Deleted]

It's not standard in my department. Not to mention that I've emailed with this woman countless times, about far more important matters, and she's never sent one before.

[Deleted]

I always emphatically select the NO I DO NOT WANT TO SEND A READ RECEIPT. I only get them a few times a year and I instantly judge the persons character in return. Ha.

[mrsgoontz]

May 7, 2013 14:52:23 GMT -5 romymichele said:

Our e-mail has the option to not send a receipt back. And I always select that option.

This.

[Deleted]

I wish there had been a hell no option.

I'm super annoyed. This group is so damn needy.

[pedanticwench]

The only time I use this is when/if I send a large file as an attachment and want to make sure the receiver got it.

[Captain Serious]

Hmmm.... Maybe it's just in my industry, where everything is very CYA-oriented. Everyone asks, everyone gets, and in my office, everyone's e-mail is set up to automatically mark the returned receipts as read and file them away in their own folder, so they don't clog up your inbox.

[fuckyourcouch]

i always turn it down. FUCK YOUR NEEDY TENDENCIES

[open24hours]

I have my email set up to automatically turn them down. I never even see the request.

[Deleted]

Not to mention that she's asking for information that she can easily find herself.

The norm here is to pick up the phone and call someone if what you need is super important to you. Or to somehow word that in your email.

Not to send a terse request with a read receipt.

[eddy]

I used to have to send this to my college students because they were all "I DIDDDDNNNNTTTT GET YOUR EEEMMAAAAAILLLL."

I do not miss working with undergrads.

[MWOS]

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING

[lightbulbsun]

May 7, 2013 14:52:23 GMT -5 romymichele said:

Our e-mail has the option to not send a receipt back. And I always select that option.

I do this, too.  There's one person I work with who uses it on every single e-mail.

[my4girls]

mine defaults to getting them, I don't know why only certain people actually get asked the question though. the majority of my personal emails I get the receipt for but only 2-3 are asked if they want to send me one. I always click no one I get the message asking me

[CurlyQ284]

I use read receipts when I email a new client to make sure I got the email right. A lot of clients never write me back, their crap gets filed and then 6 months later they are bitching to my boss asking why their crap wasn't done. Read receipt yo!

[Deleted]

Guys, these aren't default settings!  THIS BITCH IS QUESTIONING MY CHARACTER!!!!! 

Lol. 

Where's cville?  She'll rage with me.

[sparkythelawyer]

I only do those in one very specific professional situation. 

[janegold]

I'll put a read receipt on a work email if it is an important submission where I actually need to confirm receipt, or if the recipient has been a pain in the ass and not returning my emails (in which case I will probably also CC his or her supervisor if possible.) It tends to work pretty well.

[sunshineray]

I despise when people do that. It insinuates that they don't trust me to read my goddamn email. So yeah, I am passive-aggressive about it and just choose "NO, DO NOT SEND READ RECEIPT." And then I respond whenever I decide to respond.

[dana2006]

Read receipt is not the default setting in my office, nor is it used regularly. when I get one of these, it's almost always from someone who's sat on a task too long before passing it on and is then demanding super-tight turnarounds. I hate when they do that.

[Deleted]

I HATE that. Hate. It always put so much pressure on me like I have to get back to them right NOW.

[daisycat]

I hate it too. I always just decline to respond when it prompts me.

[thebamker]

May 7, 2013 14:52:23 GMT -5 romymichele said:

Our e-mail has the option to not send a receipt back. And I always select that option.

yep!

[jennysmitten]

I almost always decline. I'll get to it when I get to it.

[Deleted]

baby, you didn't need to tag me to get me in here. all i needed was "read receipt" in the title.

oh, fuck no. i don't need someone trying to prove to him or herself that i'm doing what they want me to do. i'm not their damm marionnette! i'm a real girl, and i don't have to tell if or when i read your emails.




and whoever justified it with a "but what if my large attachment doesn't get through?" NO WAY. that's what the mailer daemon is for. besides, duh, the PROPER way to school someone who hasn't read your emails is to attach or forward your original email when they write to you all indignant. i.e., you wait for THEM to fail FIRST.

[Deleted]

There you are!

Did I mention that she asked me for a document I authored last week just for "her reference", then proceeds to email about five other people with CORRECTIONS to said document? Homegirl, you are nowhere within my chain of command or accountability. And your little edits weren't even accurate.

[Deleted]

you should totally redline her redline and then send it back to her with a read receipt.

[Deleted]

That's not a bad idea.

[Deleted]

damn skippy. and use those comment function too. "i changed this back to read X because Y is inaccurate per A, B, and C."