Corporate life includes giving the appearance of working but being unproductive.

"If I send my email I'm fulfilling my responsibilities but if they don't answer I'm avoiding extra work."

Unethical pro life tip - use other people’s poor reading comprehension or laziness in reading thoroughly to get out of responsibilities.

Why isn’t it done yet? Because we’ve been waiting on X to address Y and after three weeks of reminders there’s been to reply or action. It’s X’s fault, not mine, I communicated.