Professor bans emails from students except to set up office appointment

[cobrat]

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I wonder how this is different when someone is a manager to 200+ people. Would the manager expect the staff to email him/her with non-consequential questions? I didn’t find that to be the case. I also found email communication allowed me to think before I gave an answer. Now, there is a maturity difference between 20 something vs 30 or 40 something, so employees maybe better at making judgmental on when to email their senior manager.

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<p>One critical part of that in the offices I’ve worked in is most managers have very little patience for employees who would email him/her non-consequential questions. </p>

<p>To the managers, such behaviors demonstrate the employee concerned is probably too lazy, lacking in intelligence/common sense, lacking critical/analytical thinking, and/or initiative. It also demonstrates the employee has very little consideration for others’ time. </p>

<p>Traits which creates a negative impression in the manager’s eyes and consequently, factor into a negative quarterly performance review. Fresh college grads tend to get one or at most, two warnings/discussions about this before the negative assessments start factoring into whether they need to be terminated before the probation period ends. </p>