Delay Delivery
Let me tell you how much I want to hug the man who created “delay delivery” in outlook. At my job, I am very responsive in email – too responsive. If I see a quick question I like to answer it right away as I’m designing something. The problem is that people often take this to mean I’m sitting at my desk twiddling my thumbs waiting for someone to send me an email. They take this to mean that I am now open for conversations, or that now would be the perfect time to ask for a design for your party invitation this week.
I am my company’s ONLY graphic designer. When I get thrown a deadline at 9AM to have a project I am just now seeing done by 3PM, I have to set aside everything I thought I was going to do that day and still needs to get done. But let’s say I get it down by 11AM and I send it off, what is the response? “Looks good, let’s make a few changes”
Now If I make the changes instantly trying to get this project off my plate and send them off. The person then thinks that this is time to try different color schemes and alterations – maybe a blue here and a yellow there – after all, he got this back to me in a few minutes and I still have a few hours to get this “to my vision”. The faster you answer, the more work there is. THEIR workload is not YOUR workload.
Enter delay delivery. A knight in shining armor. Ever email I ever write is delayed for 82 minutes. Why 82? Because I like 82 that’s why. It’s an even number. Both 8 and 2 together equal 10.
Not only am I not being constantly bombarded with emails, but I am able to catch up on projects that need to get done. Projects go at better pace and I don’t get “off-the-cuff” impulsive alterations on design.
Thank you delay delivery
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