It could be either, as far as I can see, though I expect that an Ugh Field around responding to emails is not really about email, but rather about some other, deeper threat that it because associated with. Merely recieving an email doesn’t have the power to condition you, but your boss’ power over you might well do.
Well, the Ugh Field around emails doesn’t start as being about email; it starts as being about some specific item in the inbox. But then as I avoid checking email for days in order to avoid looking at that item (and more from the same party), I start to realize that there are probably now other important things in the inbox that I haven’t seen, since I haven’t been reading it; and I probably don’t want to read those either, especially since I’m probably now late in replying to them.
It could be either, as far as I can see, though I expect that an Ugh Field around responding to emails is not really about email, but rather about some other, deeper threat that it because associated with. Merely recieving an email doesn’t have the power to condition you, but your boss’ power over you might well do.
Well, the Ugh Field around emails doesn’t start as being about email; it starts as being about some specific item in the inbox. But then as I avoid checking email for days in order to avoid looking at that item (and more from the same party), I start to realize that there are probably now other important things in the inbox that I haven’t seen, since I haven’t been reading it; and I probably don’t want to read those either, especially since I’m probably now late in replying to them.
And so on.