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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How often do you send "thanks" emails to people?

I don't have direct reports, but I frequently need information from others (who are often located at other sites/cities) to do my job.  As a result, to maintain good relations, if I ask people for something and they send it to me, I will often, but not always, reply with a email saying thanks.  I have read that some people think that getting these emails is a complete waste of time, but my sense was that where I work I tend to fall somewhere in the middle of the excessive/polite email spectrum.

Is this something where I should trust my gut sense about workplace culture (although with worksites across the country I think different sites/coworkers probably have different expectations), or should I drop all the "thanks" emails?  Is it a generational thing, where the tech dinosaurs are the only ones who still do this (or use the phone)?

Just curious...[/quote]

My boss told me the first week I worked for her not to send her "thanks" messages.[/quote]

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