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Ask Dan
My co-worker keeps sending me emails that areunrelated to work. What can I do to get her to stop?
It's bad enough that 78 billion spam emails clog our inboxes every day without even more unsolicited messages coming to us from our co-workers. There are some approaches, though, you can take to stem this tide. Your first recourse is to check if your company has an official email policy. Such a policy would likely include guidelines about sending emails that do not pertain to business matters. If so, communicate to your mail-happy cohort that you don't want to run afoul of company policy. Ask her then to stop sending you these missives so you can avoid any penalties. If they don't cease, talk with your manager or your human-resources department representative to see if one of them could help pull the plug on these unwanted communications. If there isn't a policy in place, and if you don't have a human-resources department or a helpful manager, then you'll need to adopt a different strategy. The next time your co-worker sends you a message unrelated to work, email her back and, politely but directly, ask her to remove you from the mailing list. If you're fearful of offending her, and thereby causing friction in the office that might escalate and spark an ongoing problem, you could suggest that she send these messages to a personal email address. That way you can keep the peace without adding stress.
Dan Lumpkin, organizational psychologist, is the president of management-consulting company Lumpkin & Associates in Fairhope, AL. Need answers? Email your career-related questions to [email protected].
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My co-worker keeps sending me emails that are
It's bad enough that 78 billion spam emails clog our inboxes every day without even more unsolicited messages coming to us from our co-workers. There are some approaches, though, you can take to stem this tide.