Sports Obsession. I Don't Get It.

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It is truly a sad state of affairs when I open my email...and have to delete 15 messages from a supervisor that are all about football playoffs.

Can someone PLEASE explain to me why people are SO obsessed with sports that it supercedes EVERYTHING? I'd really like to understand this because honestly, It drives me berserk. All I ever hear about here is football. Besides computers of course.

Call me unreasonable, but I should NOT have 3 times as many emails about football in my inbox as I do that are actually relevant to work.

Comments

[mmc327.livejournal.com]

Don't these people know who follows sports and who doesn't? These people know enough about computers that they could set up an email group for sending those emails.
Then again, it sounds like they're using company email for personal matters.
I wonder...do they send out emails asking who wants to go out to a bar after work?
I guess they're getting in their idle chat in this way because they can't stand around in a group somewhere and talk football.
But wow...coming from your supervisor? I guess it isn't against your company's practices like it was at most of the companies where I had email access.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

yeah, good idea. i sent an email to the supervisor suggeting that. not my supervisor, but another on in the compnay.