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@DataChick Also before reading that email πŸ˜€
@DataChick Or maybe it's even a February problem?
@DataChick Sending this out in an email tomorrow afternoon, flagged URGENT!
@DataChick It's only a December problem if you read the response tho
@DataChick @amyengineer Is this an e-mail that could become a meeting, but with biscuits?
@DataChick I told someone asking for a meeting for a huge project that they want to launch in January that this would indeed have to wait for January and not two days before our company wide break. Because... No.
@DataChick left out of alt text is the letter N and Letter O are alternatively moving up and slightly as if they are dancing. The image is a gif.
@DataChick It’s a punctuation problem.
@DataChick more like a February problem 🀣
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@DataChick ahahahhah! All day today! It’s going to be a busy January πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™€οΈπŸ€£

@DataChick

Do some people not constantly try to procrastinate everything?

*mind explodes*

@DataChick Mine are always May to September problems.
@DataChick @Mundon It’s a December email so at the January meeting you can say β€œI sent it to you LAST YEAR!” 
@DataChick that's what January meetings are for :-D
@DataChick *sent* The ball's in your court now byeeeeeee!!!
@DataChick it’s a problem to give others just before you go on vacation for the last week of the year
@DataChick I've already scheduled half a dozen emails for work, staggered across the second week of January, for various things that won't be remembered (by the recipient *or* me πŸ˜†) if I were to send them now
@DataChick in my case it’s pretty much entirely a January problem but if I don’t send the email now it’ll never get sent.

@DataChick absolutely.

But I reckon the answer will be: "It is no longer my problem" πŸ˜†

@DataChick Alas, in my line of work it often is a December problem. #RetireSoon #taxtwitter #Bookkeeping. πŸ˜¬πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ
@DataChick It's always a now problem. The question is more, can I live with the problem until next year or does it need to be fixed now. And just because it can wait until next year, it's still a problem that's there now. ;)
@nyansen triage is a skill.
@DataChick To be able to do a triage, you have to know all the problems. If everyone now thinks that this is unimportant and I report this in 2 weeks, then in 2 weeks everything is full and things that are not so important now will then become maybe critical. So it's better to report everything now and say directly that it can wait until next year, then you can plan in advance and know what's coming up at the beginning of the year and the customer already knows if his problem will be solved in 2 or 3 weeks.

@nyansen yes, one does need to use good triage.

Right now I have some pressuring a group to meet tomorrow. For some work that isn’t even scheduled to start for 6 weeks. That’s a January problem.

@DataChick leaving until January also has the advantage that I'll completely forget about it. Bonus!
@DataChick All January problems at this point!
@DataChick I’m deep into the β€œJanuary problem/project” mindset! πŸ˜‚

@DataChick it is a great question to ask yourself, Indeed.

To help evaluate, if you end the email by "have a nice holiday", chances are it's a January one

@DataChick me every time I want to quit my job but remember I need the money to survive after Christmas
@DataChick Just to be sure, I armed the rapid OoO-responder-canon this afternoon already. 😼
@DataChick Nearly as important: "Is this a problem at all"?
@DataChick the 2003 server on the internet is a December problem. So I sent the email. It might get fixed in January. But kinda doubt it.
@DataChick furthermore, put all recipients in the bcc field and eliminate the dreaded Reply All.

@DataChick

There are multiple things that I've thought about sending email-wise, and instead put a note on my January calendar to do it then.

@DataChick I do not get the point. We all know there is no January. Look up!
@DataChick Same goes for: before you place that online order for last minute Christmas presents.