What are your views on the practice of ignoring e-mails from colleagues to avoid giving a negative response, when it is clear your reply is expected?
I seem to have (slowly) learned about this the hard way: that there are quite a lot of people who will ignore you rather than reply negatively. My previous boss used to do it, but I just assumed that was his style. In my new position, there are many people doing it. One person I kept poking on a subject finally called me on Friday and we had words. Not the good ones.
When I worked in TEFL overseas, the business English curricula across all of the places that I worked taught students on what to expect from a wide range of countries with an emphasis on the UK in particular. Not once did I come across this as something to expect in the workplace.
I guess I will have to deal with it, but I personally think it is bad form.
I seem to have (slowly) learned about this the hard way: that there are quite a lot of people who will ignore you rather than reply negatively. My previous boss used to do it, but I just assumed that was his style. In my new position, there are many people doing it. One person I kept poking on a subject finally called me on Friday and we had words. Not the good ones.
When I worked in TEFL overseas, the business English curricula across all of the places that I worked taught students on what to expect from a wide range of countries with an emphasis on the UK in particular. Not once did I come across this as something to expect in the workplace.
I guess I will have to deal with it, but I personally think it is bad form.
