First, 24 hours just doesn't always happen for me. I am not great at email. In my (partial) defense, this university insists on

1. preventing any other means of #ElectronicCommunication (e.g., my response time was *much* faster and more reliable before I was prohibited from using a #discord server for each class)

2. flooding that single bottleneck channel of communication with a ton of shit: Holiday theme in the cafeteria! Starbucks is having a promotion! 10% off apparel at the bookstore! Here's a workshop only applicable to 5% of anybody! The president wants to tell you boring things nobody cares about! I'm selling my couch! Flags at half mast! 15 tips for healthy work/life balance! All in the same channel.

Because past presidents bought into Google, there's also no convenient way to flag/emphasize emails I want to see (e.g., from students). Ongoing filtering is a thing (clunky in google, IMO), but just whitelisting a group of emails requires a bunch of repeated work every couple of months and constant vigilance in between. Email is a nightmare for me.

2/4

#email #sucks #google #alsosucks #highered #professor #teacher #teaching