Good point,
@QualityFrog. I hadn't thought of it because
I come in early instead, for the same reason.
I'd really like to see a "Send Sometime In The Next 24 Hours" button in Gmail, but failing that, I'll
just create a place for myself to store emails in a database until an hourly scheduled job
sends them via Gmail at
getdate() + rand()*23.
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Potential downsides:
* Your bosses might come to *expect* that you are available to them 24/7
* What if a recipient gets that email and immediately replies, "Oh, I'm glad you're awake! Can you ..."
* You may come across as less competent and less efficient than the folks who can get their stuff done and still go home before the sun sets.
IMHO:
* If this approach makes a good impression on your managers, you are working for people who value the wrong things
* If you're smart enough to write a cron script that can extract emails from a database and then send them via Gmail at randomized times ... well, I think that's a suboptimal use of your considerable talent
Posted by
Joe Grossberg
on Oct 20, 2009 at 01:43 PM UTC - 6 hrs
