I am technically retired from Publishers Weekly, but I still do freelance copy editing for them. Currently, I am working on the magazine’s special issue for its 150th anniversary — yes, it started in 1872.
Today I got a phone call from the editor in charge of the issue while I was out for a walk before the rain my weather app told me was due in half an hour. He told me that a file I had been asking about for a few days, he had sent to me three times, including today. I knew I hadn’t gotten
Then it hit me, because this had happened before. Somehow I accidentally told Outlook that one of his e-mails was junk, and Outlook had dutifully sent all of his subsequent e-mails to the junk folder.
Sure enough, as soon as I got home, I checked the junk folder, and there were about 20 e-mails, including three with work I need to do. What a bummer. However, now it is fixed — and I have a lot of work to do.
Do you use Outlook? Has this ever happened to you?
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