What’s good and what’s not? Can a bad thing also be a good thing?
My work recently required me to send a bunch of emails. All similar emails, similar content, but with changing only the names, addressing each recipient individually.
These kinds of one-off tasks can get boring and repetitive (because they are!), but sometimes just need to be done.
Each time I would hit the “Send Email” button, a pop-up would show up: “Please select justification for sending this email outside the office domain”, and I’d have to select “Official Purpose” and that would be it. But if I had to do this for each time I had to send those 50-60 emails, it was becoming irritating.
Until, after about the 20th email, in a hurry, I forgot to change the name of the recipient, and hit send. Oops! I realized my mistake in that split second itself, and my heart jumped into my mouth. Luckily, there was a pop-up “Please select justification…”
Phew. Saved by that same pesky pop-up! Again, what’s good and what’s not? Can a bad thing also be a good thing?