I am a hoarder.?ÿ I even hoard emails that should have been erased ages ago.
Received an email yesterday from a local attorney who also wears the hat of County Counselor, thus he provides various services to the County Commission.?ÿ He had received an email from the County Register of Deeds complaining that the official resolution vacating an unneeded County road had yet to be filed in her office in order to provide public notice to said vacation.?ÿ She also pointed out that the resolution, as recorded in the Commission Minutes, was inadequate when approved in January of 2020.?ÿ He was asking for help.?ÿ This led to the swapping of several emails between the two of us over the course of a few hours.?ÿ He finally asked me to prepare the wording that should be used to amend the resolution.
So, I sat here staring at the ceiling for a bit thinking back on what I had done on this very subject prior to the resolution being approved.?ÿ The proverbial lightbulb suddenly appeared above my head.?ÿ I went to my email file for County work.?ÿ There it was.?ÿ On December 5, 2019 I had sent an email to the County Counselor with exactly what was needed.?ÿ He either never read it or dismissed it as being too many words when a simple phrase would achieve the goal.?ÿ So, I cut and pasted the old email and sent it to him AGAIN with the request that he let me know if he needed anything else from me.
You may not know this, but I apparently am capable of walking on water.
I cut and pasted the old email and sent it to him AGAIN
If you weren't trying to be a nice guy, you would have forwarded the old email to him highlighting the date, instead of putting it in a new one.
I sent the entire old email including the date it was sent to him.?ÿ He knows now that he should have taken my advice way back then.
Not long ago I got into a "conversation" about a city approved survey I had done in 2012 between a developer and the city traffic department.?ÿ The developer didn't like my note "limits of no access" along the section line.?ÿ He contacted me about "changing" the survey and I told him that was a requirement by the city.?ÿ He called the city and they said it really wasn't a requirement.
I told them I would remove the note and refile the survey if (A) somebody paid me to do it and (B) I received a letter from the city stating it was OK to remove the "limits of no access".?ÿ Then it turned into a free-for-all about whether council approval was required.
Long story short it all centered around me calling it a "requirement".?ÿ The traffic engineer was of the opinion he had only suggested the wording and made no "requirement".
I dug around in my hoarded emails from 2012 and found the traffic engineer's email to concerning "REQUIREMENTS FOR APPROVAL".?ÿ I forward him the email he had sent me in 2012.?ÿ Never heard another thing about it.?ÿ I guess they all handled it themselves.
I can't tell you how many times I've stayed late on a Friday to meet a deadline. Attach work product to email and send to client manager. Three weeks (or much longer, up to a year) later I get a call from the client's underling tech, "Please send me the topo of so and so that was supposed to be done by..."?ÿ Me, forward three week old sent email with attachment, the date of the original sending and its recipients is clear.?ÿ
An email can be saved as a .msg file, which can be opened in Outlook and sent out. I do keep these in a submittals directory of the project.?ÿ ?ÿ
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A 1.2 year old email does not constitute hoarding
IMHO
I work e-mails dating back to 2008.
In 2018 the PE I was working for passed away suddenly. I was obliged to try to pick up the pieces. The man had 38,000 undifferentiated emails in his Inbox.
I regularly have a temper tantrum looking for stuff in "junk" or "trash", or god forbid "archives". Everything over 5 years old gets 86'd. ?????ÿ(except my "Release from Parole" documents")
.... gets 86'd.
So you put it all into the File directory 1986??ÿ BRILLIANT!!!
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That sucks, sorry to read that. When life happens that way, it really puts interesting twists into the flow....