1,000 Emails a Day?

When a BlackBerry service outage occurred recently, I read a quote in a news article from a user who was annoyed at the loss of service. This user said he was tremendously inconvenienced by the outage, since he receives almost 1,000 emails each day. He said that makes it difficult enough to keep up, but with no service, even more so. He was going to ask his employer to get him a Treo as a backup device.

I don't know if that number was a misprint or not, but if it wasn't, one thousand emails a day is mind-boggling. Something is amiss if one person alone has to handle a thousand emails each day. Let's do some quick math. Even if he spent on average only 30 seconds reading each email, that would equate to more than 8 straight hours of reading. And that doesn't include replies, meetings, phone calls, restroom breaks, or lunch. How could anyone possibly do that each and every day?

Sounds like it might be time for another person to journey down the Road to Gumption!