A New Trick To Use If You Don’t Want To Deal With It

We’ve all been there. We get an email (or 40) from someone we just really don’t feel like dealing with. You COULD fire back with a long missive that exhausts time and energy.

Or, you could do the sensible thing and just pretend that you sent it from your iPhone.

We all know that the iPhone is very good for sending quick bursts and shorter messages. Not once have I had anyone send me a message from an iPhone that would be akin to a tax reform position paper. It’s usually, quick, short and to the point. In this case, all you have to do is send a short email from your computer and then type, “Sent from my iPhone” at the end. Bag the email signature (and make sure it’s off — or you’ll get caught) and just be done with it. I also recommend using all lower case and adding a few misspellings and punctuation errors. That seems to be plausible for an iPhone user going at warp speed. If you send a short message, faking the “Sent from my iPhone” and if that person really wants to get hold of you, they’ll call and you can keep the insanity in check. Also, be sure that you have an iPhone or you’ll have to endure the, “wait I thought you had a Blackberry” conversation and then, the jig will be up.

Of course, you could just be on the offensive and just call that person and tell them to leave you the hell alone.

But that’s not nearly as fun.