Stop it already. It's F'ing annoying. If you included me on the email, I'll read it. You don't need to highlight my name and paste right where you want to me read.
In my group, 1 exec came in and started doing that about 8 months ago and now every Tom, Di-k, and Harry around does it non-stop.
It is a function of the new Outlook solution. When you type @john_doe it automatically highlights it and puts john_doe in the ‘To’ line. Still annoying.
that cadence seems about right
OP here - I find that highlighting exactly where someone needs to read in an email trail means that they ABSOLUTELY don't read the other parts of the email, which causes them to lose extremely important context which is necessary for them to inform a value added response.
Acting like someone who doesn't like this is someone who doesn't like accountability is laughable. There is no accountability in this company whatsoever, let's not act like it happens over email. Give me a break.
Get over it.
Person is trying to be efficient and point out what they need action on.
This is the new tl;dr mitigation. You should only be getting tagged on actions you ar being called to take or information you specifically need. This assumes the function is being used correctly. It can be very useful for making sure people understand they are the one the sender is asking to do or know something.
People who like to avoid accountability or pretend they don’t know things they’ve been told especially do not like this. Just sayin’.
I hate when people do that to -- if my name is on the email I'll read it.
With that said, if email is long and I'm just cc:d, bolding or highlighting my name (NOT my email address) helps call it out, especially if there's an action item.
You may be good at reading emails, but a lot of people DON"T READ their emails. There was this stupid Sr. program manager who only reads the first sentence/bullet, and always skips the rest of the contents. So this guy always comes to team meetings with misinterpretation/misunderstanding on the current topic, and creates so much confusion during the conversation. You may be a few good readers that became the victim of other bad people who refuse to read the email.