Disorders of email kind

It’s confirmed. I am suffering from OCED. OCED? You probably haven’t heard of this disease. Have you?

Never mind. It’s called Obsessive Compulsive Email Disorder. The doctors are sure that I have all the symptoms of OCED. I have demonstrated it umpteenth times in my office. The most common symptoms of this disorder are:

- Getting angry on work-related issues in your office.
- Getting an impulse to shoot an email to the person who deserves your wrath
- High blood pressure
- Typing at high speed without making a single spelling mistake
- Writing a highly volatile mail that can spark fireworks under the recipient's pants
- Typing on the keyboard in a way that terrifies your neighbouring colleagues and sounds like you’re going to pull all the keys out of the keyboard

And when you start demonstrating these symptoms often while at work, you got to be suffering from OCED. Now you’re wondering what did I do to pickup this disorder. Let me tell you an instance.

A few days back I had an argument with a colleague on an issue which I believe was unnecessary and illogical. So she shot a mail telling me what she wanted me to do and worst of all she put other team members in CC when the issue could have been resolved between the two of us. What the hell! I replied to her and added the project manager in the CC list. To my shock, even the PM sided with her. My blood pressure was rising as I thought I couldn’t accept the issue. I shot back and in the heat of the moment dragged the project director into the CC list. And this continued for a while until my mailbox reached size limit and further mails were stuck in the outbox. And we were forced to hold an emergency meeting to resolve the issue.

Such instances keep happening to me quite often and I don’t even blink to shoot a mail to anyone - be it the CEO - when I believe that I am right. So that ‘s why my manager is extra cautious while talking to me. :)

And my teammates? They joke around telling everyone not to take panga with me coz I am suffering from OCED and can drag anyone into an ugly email fight.

Well…the truth is, after I click the Send button, I realize I could be courting deep trouble. And I am fed up with this email business.

Lest I become the first, (in)famous sample of OCED. And doctors around the world start demanding clinical trials on me. I am calling it quits. No more emailing arguments.