1783: Emails

2017-01-09T15:58:28Z

Kolreyeba:

{{comic
| number = 1783
| date = January 9, 2017
| title = Emails
| image = emails.png
| titletext = Hey Rob, sorry it took me a while to get back to you! Sure, I'd love to see WALL-E opening weekend! Are you still doing that, or...?
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|First draft. Needs more on the explanation.}}
[[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are walking together. Megan asks if Cueball has any {{w|New Year's resolution}}s. New Year's, to most people, is a time for thinking about the year and coming up with resolutions to improve themselves. Cueball replies that he has one. It's to finish reading and replying to his backed up emails from 2008, as it appears that he has not read his email in a while, and now he has to fix the mess he's made.

A common technique for the ''productive'' members of the world is to batch reply to email instead of replying to each one individually as they come. The principle is that setting aside specific times to reply instead of always being "on call" gives the messages the attention they deserve while avoiding the urge to constantly check your email when you should be doing important work. Such a technique could be to check all your emails once a day, or once a week, for instance. Cueball could be making a joke that the time he waits before checking his email goes into the ''years'', showing that he needs to rethink his "approach".

The title text is a reply to an email in which [[Rob]] wished to see the movie ''{{w|WALL-E}}'', a film that came out in 2008, with Cueball during its opening weekend. However, the opening weekend is now far in the past, and yet Cueball doesn't realize it and trails off with "are you still doing that, or...?"

A real (and useful) New Year's resolution would involve trying to answer emails in time (instead of spending time on old emails), which would avoid the mess he's currently in.

==Transcript==
:[Megan and Cueball are walking along.]
:Megan: Did you have any New Year's Resolutions?
:Cueball: Gonna finally finish dealing with those emails from 2008.
:Caption: As my email backlog approaches 10 years, I'm starting to have doubts about my approach.

{{comic discussion}}

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1783: Emails