The Mail Syndrome

I had been receiving a series of mails pointing out to the discrepancies that exist in the system. Most of them, unlike what the code of conduct says, were meant for slandering. I actually smiled on realizing that some of these mails were exchanged between the people sitting in the same office; and many times next to each other.
Hilarious as it may sound, this is true of what we define as the "Office Culture", because irrespective of it being a private or public or whatever possible sector, people exchange mails as frequently as the pleasantries they exchange on meeting someone.
So, based on my observations and experiences in addition to what I have heard from people, these are few categories in which I have finally divided the people who mail

The Mailers
Just like we have bloggers, we have Mailers too. These people have this unparalleled knack to write such big mails which are sound specimen of their exemplary vocabulary. It seems as if they have all their office hours devoted to writing a mail alone. That writing a mail is an art, is something that these people believe in earnestly.

The Pokers
This is the second breed and generally a commonly found one. These people have this habit of poking their nose in others' business. Suddenly they will chip in from the cc list and start responding; irrespective of whether the matter concerns them or not. They have their views and they believe that people should know them.

The Clueless
These are the ones who give random replies; sometimes they will be so high on logic that it will go beyond the matter and sometimes it will be just another gibber.

The Pseudo Boss
There are some people who really love passing orders. Oblivious to their stature, they just have to command and mind you if you do not follow them.

The Bashed
These are generally the people at bottom of the ladder. Listening "pravachans" for all the commitments they never even heard of, let alone making them.

The Forced Readers.
These are the ones uselessly marked in the mails. They are gettin it just for the sake of it, the mail does not really matter to them.

The Letgoers
Finally, it is us; who read and write, feel bad and feel funny too. But at the end of the day, just let it go for office tension is not supposed to spoil our day.

Jokes apart, it is really a sorry state of affairs that we need to mail to get our points through. That the level of trust has gone down so much that we need to put it all in writing. That people sitting next to each other mail and that mail is more to make a mockery of the other one.

Maybe it is high time that we should grow up and take work seriously. A mail will not get you the appreciation if the work is still not done.

(Confused Genius feels very happy at the end of the day when she finds that she has got most of the work done without mailing much. Maybe its time that you should start feeling the same too.)