Office E-Mail Problems

[stickmaker]

Does anyone else work in a place where management will send e-mails with important announcements as attachments, and little or nothing in the body of the message?

Not only does it make no sense to send a short message as an attachment, with - at most - a note to read the attachment. Not only does it make no sense to have the attachment in .DOC or .PDF format or even as a PowerPoint slide when it contains nothing but text. We keep getting told, in no uncertain terms (often by the same people sending the messages I'm complaining about) not to open attachments from people we don't know, especially when they come alone, with no explanatory text in the message. And I don't know the people sending these attachments. And they contain, at most, only a brief note to read the attachment. The people responsible are apparently in upper management, somewhere.

Bizarrely, many of these attached messages appear to have originally been printed documents, scanned and sent as images in .PDF format. They're blurry, with an off-white background and signs of lint and dust.



(Less than six months to retirement... less than six months to retirement...)

Comments

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

I believe the message here is "Do as I say, not as I do."

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of payroll-related forms - new hires, terminations, wage changes, etc. - that we have to submit to Corporate as Excel attachments. Which makes sense most of the time, but even if it's one person with a one-time deduction (if they bought a parking pass, for instance) it has to be on a spreadsheet. If the same info's just typed into an email body they'll send it back saying the info wasn't attached.