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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9393426" data-attributes="member: 6796661">I've been fighting e-mail for years. Trying to get my team into better business process habits and using better systems for requests, task tracking, and updates. I heavily use Power Automate to turn e-mail into something useful (and back in the day ProcMail, took me years to move from PINE and ProcMail to e-mail systems with a GUI because of lack of good filtering and automations). But its a losing battle. My current e-mail pet peeve in my new job is that the front desk sends out an e-mail every friday asking people for their schedule for the next week (what days they'll be in the office, telecommuting, on vacation, etc.). Keep in mind that we already have to enter our leave requests in one system and submit our hours in yet another system, and complete a telework agreement in a PDF form and submit that to yet another system. But that's not even what drives me crazy. What is just mind-boggling to me is the number of people who respond to the front desk's weekly request for your next weeks schedule with reply-all. I've had to create a power-automate flow to delete all e-mail with the subject line "weekly schedule" unless it comes from the front desk e-mail or my boss's e-mail. Otherwise, every friend, my inbox gets flooded with people responding to the front desk with their weekly schedules. Gmail lets you. But I've gotten very particular with short cuts and text expansion and have been using tools like ActiveWord, PhraseExpress, and AutoHotKey for decades. I also use a Kinesis keyboard that lets me program the keyboard to automate a lot of things with a few keystrokes, with multiple layers depending what I'm doing. I'm also left handed. Basically, my computers are unusable to other people. I feel like a stick-shift driver in the United States. Few people are ever going to want to use my computer, because they don't know how to.</blockquote>

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