Bob Geldof hates emails
p2p news / p2pnet: Bob Geldof doesn’t like emails. He really doesn’t like emails.
In fact, he hates them, believing they tie up people’s time and stop genuine action, says the BBC.
Geldof told a conference in London the “doing part” of a job is proportionate to the amount of e-mails you don’t answer..
“A successful businessman as well as social activist, Mr Geldof also warned of the perils of a badly-phrased e-mail, which he said he knows from personal experience can cause serious commercial harm,” says the Beeb, adding:
“The tone can be wrong”, he explained. “An ill-considered e-mail can destroy a deal.”
See:-
BBC – Bob Geldof rails against e-mails, November 15, 2005
November 17th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
Sigh, another 40+ dinosaur, he probably writes letters with a fountain pen.
November 17th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Fountain pen? Another new gadget?
heh
Cheers!
November 17th, 2005 at 11:45 pm
I hate the Reply All button…
November 18th, 2005 at 3:39 am
Problem is he’s partly right. Bigbiz is pushing fewer ppl to do more work so much that most ppl feel they can’t justify physically finding and discussing something with another employee because email seems “quicker” to the pointy haired manager types.
The more i see of how companies operate, the more convinced i am that the dilbert comic is not a work of fiction. It’s a documentary of how bigbiz actually operates.