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[–] 178 points 1 month ago (81 children)

Doesn’t all that go to your calendar?

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  • [–] 189 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (50 children)

    Yes but God forbid you forget when that meeting is or misremember any detail... good luck finding it in the calendar amongst the rest

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  • [–] 172 points 1 month ago (28 children)

    Or, you know, the email could just not delete.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    In a corporate role you can have hundreds of meetings a month. Yeah, they can get lost.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Especially when protocol is to add every meeting you receive to the calendar. It's easy to miss stuff when you've got 8 triple booked meetings in a day and you only actually NEED to attend 1 in every 5 or so meetings.

    Basically nobody has good hygiene when it comes to meetings, emails, or messages anymore "fuck it, I will send it to the whole team" - dumb assholes trying to look busy.

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  • [–] 85 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Imagine someone sends you an invite to a meeting a couple of weeks or months out. You accept. The next day you need to check something that was in that meeting invite. Fuck, was that meeting set in march or april? And what was it called? There are like three plausible names for it... Woldn't it be nice to just scroll down to yesterdays emails and have it there?

    Either treat invites as a message, or do some completely separate calendar-notification system. But the inbetween is kinda the worst of both worlds.

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    I have hundreds if not thousands deleted emails per week. Searching the deleted folder is a pain.

    Im glad this topic got brought up because I thought I was the only one having this issue.

    Thank goodness I only have to attend about 10 meetings a month.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    As insane as my work calendar is, yes. I've accepted meetings and days later needed to go back to find the entry. Unless you memorize when they meeting was you're going to have to find that manually. It's a very avoidable inconvenience.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Check out this guy that has two meetings a week. And none of them have similar titles, attendees or anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    In case this wasn’t a sarcastic/rethorical question:
    In a thread of people complaining about the problems they have with the subject, it is easily taken as audacious to ask “do you really have that problem” without further elaboration as it sounds like incredulity, disbelief or minimization of the reality of the problem. When you start that way and then continue just asking questions, the initial impression is only strengthened.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Not anymore. It's been deprecated, as insane as that sounds.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Not everyone's work lives are completely owned and controlled by their outlook calendar. Therefore, not everyone regularly checks their calendar, let alone remembers stupid quirks.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Bingo. I work in hospice and spend most of my day driving around to people's houses, but we do occasionally have meetings. Every Tuesday morning, every other Wednesday, and a monthly meeting where 2 dates and times are offered to allow for scheduling around them for patient care. Some are on Teams, some are in person. The meeting invites for this year we're sent out in December last year. Good luck remembering. At least they'll sent out reminders a day or two before the meetings so we can panic fix our schedules.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    So why don't you disable the option to delete after accepting?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    File > Options > Mail > Send Messages > "Delete meeting requests and notifications from Inbox after responding" > Uncheck

    But they arguably chose the worst default, the option to change this is so buried in 100s of other settings it might as well not exist for most users.

    And by the way this option is not available in "New Outlook" 🙄

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    Good luck searching in any Microsoft product without knowing the exactly named item.

    Alternative would be not deleting it so you can sort by person if you remember who invited you.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (15 children)

    Only if the organizer set a reminder for 15 minutes. If they do not set a reminder, you do not get one. Yes, the organizer sets the reminder time. It's stupid.

    With regards to this meme: you can find the invite by checking your deleted items or just looking for it in your calendar.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    The organizer would have to deliberately disable the reminder...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    How else does one manage to skip out on a meeting that one really doesn't want to hold?

    "Sorry boss, I tried. Had to reschedule, cause half the meeting never showed."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    True, but why would any email client just ignore that crucial peice of data from the most common email client?

    Even if the devs dislike it, ignoring it would only make it seem as if your client is the one with the issues.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    So then you have to scroll through your calendar for the information instead of a simple search

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    Calendar items show up in search... You're grasping for a reason to be mad where there isn't one.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Oh, an invite, sweet! RSVP real quick. Oh shit, when was it again? All good, I'll search for the sender. 32,000 emails show up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    No, usually you would check over your appointments for the day, and if they required more information, you would pick up on that as you prepared for your schedule. Usually while having breakfast

    As an engineer with 1-5 meetings in a day, that's how I always did it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Look in your delete folder? Or do you have it erase everything immediately? Like, there's a dozen ways for this to not be an issue, but you've decided shooting yourself in the foot is the way to go just so you have someone to whine about.

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