The Most Emails in a Day

NOTE: This is a work-related experiment, something to do with your co-workers (from the Working For The Man book):

It is absurd how many emails one gets in the course of a day. 100 emails before lunch is not unusual. If you go on vacation for a week, you can come back to thousands of unread messages. Add in the spam, and the number goes up exponentially. The efficiency of instant communication has created a hulking and unstoppable monster of inefficiency.

Put together a competition to see who gets the most emails in a day (or week). It doesn’t really matter who wins — the winner could either get free drinks at the nearby pub or a booby prize. The more interesting thing will be each person revealing how many emails they get each day. Though the ridiculousness of the numbers will just confirm what everybody already knows — that we all get too many emails — the individual tabulations, not to mention the collective number, will still blow everyone away. If only you got an extra day of vacation for every 100 emails received…