Last week, I read an article in Wired Magazine online. By coincidence, the colleagues talked about it too and stressed on how our IT systems aren't efficient enough. I rolled my eyes. That is exactly what I thought from day one and never saw any need to change that impression.
Our IT department seems to be made up of reactionary individuals who micro-manage and scrimp on everything. By itself, that isn't a bad thing. Financial prudence is good. IT systems take up a huge chunk of the operating budget. On one hand, lagging behind technology isn't cool; on the other hand, it's not possible to be playing catch up all the time, (Try catching up on missed tweets over a 48-hour period) but we need to know how to judiciously spend on upgrading the necessary aspects within our systems. Which essentially means, we need the IT department to be able to identify the big picture, not go burrowing into small holes and proudly proclaim them as 'achievements'.
I always send out random emails to the friends. (Not chain mails!) Like deep, meaningful articles. Ooof. Or crap jokes or B-grade videos, usually. (But you gotta admit Buffy kicked Edward's ass totally.)
So I sent out this mid-week hello email to the friends. Of course I also complained about my pathetic 55MB limit for office email inbox capacity. By the time 16MB is taken away for colors, anti-virus and watnots, only 39MB of usable space remain. It absolutely riles me when people send emails with attachments that are bigger than 1500kb. The last time someone sent me something with 20,000kb, it gave me ulcers. Archiving works and I do that religiously- immediately, daily. Heck, I work from my archive so that at any one time, the inbox has only 10 emails.
One by one, the friends saw it fit to reply to the mid-week hello email. They seemed to take GREAT delight in letting me know their (work) inbox quota. I realized most get above 150MB of inbox space. SOME get 500MB.
What??!! It is so NOT FAIR!
7 comments:
I have been busting my 55MB the past few months. I should adopt the similar practice as you. Maybe not 10 emails but 2 weeks of emails :)
haven't i mentioned about my 2GB? on office server, not gmail.
coboypb: should! try! it's a pain initially. but after a while, it's good. there was a server crash- everyone's inbox was wiped out and they had to wait days for IT to retrieve and re-install. even so, not all emails were there. i didn't have to do anything for mine- my archives were intact. heeee. since then, i make it a point to archive daily. immediately even.
meteor: oh shut up.
Huh..?!! =( compare 2 urs, ours are jus mediocre MS Outlook lo..everitime our inboxes kena busted by e annoying Business Control ppl etc, not 4gettin spammed by friggin lame jokes n quotes..!! our IT dept isnt efficient at all..u noe tos stupid 3 wrkin days rules n "haf to get upper mgmt's approval"..wat BS..gee sumhow dey like 2 "direct" us 2 the even lousier Helpdesk (wic u get strong tamil-accented ppl as "guides") *bang wall*
emphasise NOT chain mails! only meaningful random mail. still *heart* you. haha
My limit sucks too. And with the scope of my work, I send and receive big files all the time so I feel your pain.
kelise: i'd love to switch to Outlook. SOON.
sinlady: heheheheh. i remember your post mah!
hobomobo: i already can imagine 1 file will bomb ur whole quota.
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