Category Archives: Social Media  Did You Get That Thing I Sent
Ya?  Museum of Communications  This video, adapted from a
character on Cartoon Network’s Harvey Birdman animated series.
Asks the most fundamental question that exists and is at the
center of my issues with workplace communications.  “Did you get
that thing, that thing, THAT THING, … that… I sent ya?”  It
happens a lot, I do it, and a lot of other people do it too and
it’s so annoying, irritating, and upsetting. You send a message
to someone else and if it’s email, it can be like it flew into a
black hole. You don’t know if they got it, if they read it, if
they don’t care. Did they file it? Did they laugh when they got
it? Dunno. When will whatever it is get attention? Dunno.  It’s
the not knowing that irks me. We used to use GroupWise which
made this particular issue somewhat of a non-event because it
would record the fate of the message and you could get read
receipts automatically sent back to you. Generally, this isn’t a
problem either with Su