May I introduce you to my Lord and savior, the recap email.
“As per our conversation on <date>, we discussed <topic> and had the following points/action items…”
I’ve only ever had one job where these emails were not appreciated (current job most send them by default), and man was it fun pissing off people outside of my command chain by documenting the shit they wanted off record.
I can’t tell you how many times some worthless dumbfuck of a client project manager tried to get me to agree to all sorts of shit that way and then complain to my manager when I would summarize our chat exactly like that.
I guess I was lucky that even though I was not well liked, the managers always defended me because I never did anything unreasonable. I can’t stand lack of accountability.
May I introduce you to my Lord and savior, the recap email.
“As per our conversation on <date>, we discussed <topic> and had the following points/action items…”
I’ve only ever had one job where these emails were not appreciated (current job most send them by default), and man was it fun pissing off people outside of my command chain by documenting the shit they wanted off record.
I can’t tell you how many times some worthless dumbfuck of a client project manager tried to get me to agree to all sorts of shit that way and then complain to my manager when I would summarize our chat exactly like that.
I guess I was lucky that even though I was not well liked, the managers always defended me because I never did anything unreasonable. I can’t stand lack of accountability.