Your email inbox bears all - high-priority meetings with boss, quick project update, strict whip to meet deadlines, corporate party or outing - and at times, you may be puzzled as what, when and whom to reply. Yes this is a common dilemma, courtesy the Information Technology. Hence, email management is a must-to-seek lesson. Don't take otherwise, here the management is for your good. See how?
I'd always tell these people the same thing -- if it is only five lines of code then go write your own ActiveX object! Because yes, you are absolutely right -- it would take me approximately five minutes to add that feature to the VBScript runtime library. But how many Microsoft employees does it actually take to change a lightbulb?