Less than 24 hours after being told that he was being let go -- enough time to pack up his desk and send a farewell e-mail to colleagues -- he received news that his position in video promotion and strategic marketing had been saved.
In the first week of December 2003, OMB desk officers sent e-mail reminders to all cabinet-level agencies to reiterate that (1) OMB expects agencies to submit their regulatory enforcement reports on time, and that (2) the information contained in these reports should be consistent with agency reports submitted pursuant to the IG Act and the CFO Act.
At the next playgroup, I asked the lady at the front desk to pass my e-mail address on to her. (By the way, Mary isn't her real name -- I changed it to prevent scaring her off.) I was beet red as I walked Kylie toward the subway station, and was doing frenetic hop run behind the stroller.
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Whether you have stacks of paper on your desk or piles of unread e-mails clogging your inbox, you know you will feel better if you could just get them sorted out and organized.
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But if not, make sure clearing your desk takes precedence over things like checking e-mails and chatting with co-workers in the morning.
It was liberating to be untethered from your desk phone and to have access to company e-mail, although you still could not read a spreadsheet or view a presentation on the device.
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Get up from your desk and go talk to your coworkers instead of e-mailing them.
Tech support personnel might have to go desk to desk to do fixes, or perform maintenance on e-mail servers that have become clogged with virus-generated messages.
But with reading e-mail on our smartphone or tablet becoming the New Normal , not the exception, Roth suggests what you actually need is an e-mail signature for the increasingly-special cases when you are actually desk-bound, reading Microsoft Outlook.
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Get up from your desk and go talk to your co-workers instead of e-mailing them.
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