OCECD Cured!

What does OCECD stand for?  Obsessive Compulsive Email Checking Disorder

Now that my business email is no longer accessible, I found it liberating to remove the Outlook email from my iPhone today.  Except for one problem…..I lost my contacts.  When you delete an email account from your phone, not only do you lose your email messages, but also the contacts and the calendar appointments.  I knew this would be a problem so I took a few preventative measures:

• Exported my contacts from Outlook in 2 file formats:  .pst and .csv.  This will be helpful when I establish my new work email in a few weeks so I can import these files later.  (That won't help me right now though)
• Prior to leaving HMA, I sent an email to many business contacts and announced my last day was  Friday and provided my personal email and cell phone
• I requested that my employer forward any personal email messages specifically related to my volunteer work at HFMA to my personal email address.  They are monitoring the email box for messages instead of canceling my email account.  This concerns me the most because I am afraid they won't honor my request and HFMA messages will go unanswered for a period of time.  Senders will not receive the bounce back message that the email address is no longer valid and they might not receive any acknowledgement.

In addition to the above, I noticed that after I deleted the email account I had many text messages and phone calls that used to have the person's name populated change to the cell phone number.  I quickly scanned the messages and updated the contact information to add the person's name.

I plan to update my LinkedIn account after my start date so for now, I will enjoy the peace of not checking my phone for work email and stay focused on packing.

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