I just returned from a wonderful trip to Myrtle Beach, SC…what a great place to go!  You should try it some time.  For families, I recommend Dunes Village Resort.  OK, enough promoting those guys though they definitely deserve it. 

 While at the beach I thought I would “stay on top of things” and bring my work laptop.  At first it seemed like a good thing to do because I could keep up with projects and my colleagues but as the week moved on it almost felt like I never left the workplace.  It was still pretty relaxing but answering emails, interviewing candidates , making calls all makes it seem like your butt is still in the seat.

Now don’t get me wrong, it is a nice luxury to not have to come back to 100+ emails etc but the price you pay is not really being able to “let go”, “let your hair down” and have that “Calgone Take Me Away Moment”.  Also, most clients and candidates appreciate the extra effort, especially when you are on PTO. 

So friend or foe?!?!  Mostly friend…or may be foe….heck I don’t know.

We have all been guilty of hitting the Send button in our Emails and then saying “OH DARN”. You KNOW what I am talking about, or is it just me?

…Responding to an email too quickly…

…Hitting the “Reply All” button when the message was for only one of the recipients…

Hopefully you were not talking bad about anyone!!!

Or what about when the autofill pops a name in the “To” line and then you realize you just emailed the wrong person?     OMG!

I guess the moral of this story is to check every line in our email before we hit that “Send” button as it can save us a lot of embarrassment and make sure the email is intended for the person or persons we mean to send it to…
 

I wish we had a “Retract” button that actually worked, invisibly snatching back an email.

 Now that would be genius!!!!  Microsoft, can you do better please?