I’ve set up a food bank collection at work.
Tesco are lending me some crates, I’ve ordered and received the groceries to kick start the collection, I’ve printed off sample shopping lists, I’ve secured a room at work, I’ve got the appropriate approvals from HR and Facilities Management but I hadn’t got approval to send an email to everyone in the building using the bulk mail facility.
The bulk mail system at work is tightly controlled and there are strict rules applied when decided what can use the functionality and what can’t. I understand that every Tom, Dick and Harry can’t use this system and it’s important to have appropriate controls in place.
As bulk mail wasn’t available to me I considered my other options.
Posters around the building are tightly controlled too and whilst there is a system for distributing them I’ve never been sure that this is a perfect system.
I could talk to everyone in the building but that would take some time and distract me, and the people I’m talking to, from the day job.
I could do a desk drop but that would be costly in terms of resource and my time.
I could email everyone I know but that wouldn’t give me the exhaustive coverage I was looking for.
So I decided to ask the Chairman and Managing Director for help. If he cascaded an email and all of those recipients cascaded the email and so on, then that should be fairly comprehensive coverage.
I sent the email. He replied: he supported what I was doing and requested that a bulk mail be sent out.
I wore a grin from ear the ear, or ‘ere to ‘ere, for the rest of the day.
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