I got an email this morning marked urgent, so of course I opened it right away. Turned out it was about something that could easily wait until next week. It made me laugh how often the word urgent gets thrown around at work. After a while everything starts feeling like an alarm even when it really is not. Does anyone else feel like the meaning of urgent gets stretched way too far at work?

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It does. Gets misused in general. Often, the matters that are actually urgent slip through the cracks…sometimes the inefficiency is laughable

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