| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Poll: Do you mute incoming email notifications when working? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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EvaVer wrote:
My computer is not allowed to make any noise, at any time.
| | | | Mario Chavez (X) 
Local time: 10:25
English to Spanish
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| ITD = International Translation Day | Oct 2, 2016 |
Chie. I wrote:
Last month, several agencies sent me international translation's day celebration emails, which was just a newsletter so I decided to mute all.
Lucky me, I probably received one or two, which I deleted. I'm having second thoughts about all these international days of this or that. They seem an exercise in self-congratulatory futility.
| | | | | I get visual alerts | Oct 2, 2016 |
If I turned them off, I would miss out on incoming jobs.
It's much easier to ignore my phone than my e-mail. E-mail is my main line of communication. I need to be able to respond to emergencies.
Though I just get visual alerts at the bottom of my screen, I admit that they are a distraction.
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 11:25
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| It doesn't mean you have to interrupt your work... | Oct 2, 2016 |
Luiz Barucke wrote: Mario Freitas wrote:
While I'm working on a current job, new e-mail messages usually contain job proposals for the next jobs, and many of them will be given to another translator if you don't reply in a few hours. Clients and agencies aren't very patient, you know. ...But it's something I need to deal with, because that's what keeps my work going on. And most of my job proposals wouldn't wait for a reply more than a few minutes. 
In my case, a little sound is heard (not an annoying beep, you choose the sound) and a little pop-up window opens up on the bottom right corner of my screen mentioning who the sender is. So, of course I will ignore most of them while I'm translating, but I will also konw if it's a potential new job, if it's from a regular client, and only then I'll interrupt my work and reply.
[Edited at 2016-10-02 22:42 GMT]
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Mario Chavez wrote: Chie. I wrote:
Last month, several agencies sent me international translation's day celebration emails, which was just a newsletter so I decided to mute all. Lucky me, I probably received one or two, which I deleted. I'm having second thoughts about all these international days of this or that. They seem an exercise in self-congratulatory futility.
I don't get any sounds to alert me of e-mails since changing to a new computer / system a couple of weeks ago, and I don't miss it.
In regards to ITD, I got one e-mail from any agency that invited me to tell "my story" for ITD. They didn't mention wanting to pay me for it. I have never done work for them, and I would much rather get e-mails that are work-related. Such messages are simply a waste of time. We have to check our messages as part of our job, and don't want to spend more time than we have to. Which makes me think muting / not getting audible alerts, is a good thing.
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