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Re: Ask HN: How to handle a workaholic colleague?

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Ask HN and you shall receive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722587

Woah that was totally unexpected

Here on HN you must expect the unexpected!

Or, I suppose you could expect the Spanish Inquisition.

Re: Ask HN: How to handle a workaholic colleague?

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post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Woah that was totally unexpected

Here on HN you must expect the unexpected ! Or, I suppose you could expect the Spanish Inquisition.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency!

Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope!

Um, I'll come in again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf_Y4MbUCLY

Re: Ask HN: How to handle a workaholic colleague?

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There are solutions to write and 'send' an email now for scheduled delivery. Gmail users for example can use Boomerang: http://www.boomeranggmail.com/

Wouldn't this potentially result in the same person receiving multiple emails from you at 8:01 am (for example)? I would think a better solution would be a manual summary email early in the morning of everything you did since the office closed the prior evening.

> Wouldn't this potentially result in the same person receiving multiple emails from you at 8:01 am (for example)?

Boomerang lets you set the time the email will be sent differently on each scheduled email. Or you could go with "send in 8 hours" for each, and they will be spaced out by however long it took to write each one.

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