Billion(ish) dollar idea
14when you go on vacation and have hundreds of emails to sift through afterwards, it’d be nice if there was something that would summarize everything for you. so, i propose a program that scans all your emails when you get back and creates a tl;dr email with one of the following outputs:
“it’s all good”
“shit went down. duck and cover.”
“you’re fired. why the fuck are you even here? SECURITY!!”
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Check out the Mail on Holiday program at the Daimler in Germany. TL:DR The emails will be deleted while you’re away and your coworkers will be handling those.
@galmaegi sure, but i automatically delete emails even when i’m not on vacation.
based on the title and your travel, i thought it was a business proposal to collect 75 cents from everyone in china
one way to help with this is to set your out of office message to "i’m on vacation, i don’t care about your email and i’m not getting back to you. if it’s important, get back to me when i return (or find someone who cares).
@Yoda_Daenerys yours is much more eloquent than the “I’m in China. Fuck off.” i used.
@carl669 oh, but you waste no words, and leave no room for ambiguity, well said!
I spent 2 days catching up on emails after 3 weeks of paternity leave. Would definitely buy into a program like that.
My auto email just says, hey, I am busy fighting stage IV cancer so I am ignoring email. I trust you are smart enough to figure out another way to solve the problem. (Clue: check the website listed under my signature that might help.)
It would be simple enough to make -just have it pick key words and phrases that it can summarize. The biggest problem is privacy. If people refuse to upgrade to Windows 10 for privacy reasons, they won’t let a program read all of their e-mails that, potentially, could be sending data to some unknown server for nefarious purposes.
Go work for the NSA. They’ve had that program for at least a decade.