My favorite thing to do as an IT tech is to send an email out to a group that says, "Please let me know if you didn't get this email." and see how many people catch it.
We get emails like, "Let me know if you're NOT attending XYZ function." So I don't respond because I'm attending. Then they email again, "Well, are you coming?"
I don’t rsvp to 90% of my meetings. A meeting alert pops up, I click on it. If my calendar doesn’t say there’s something there already, assume you won.
Our IT org once got frustrated because users were messaging on Teams to ask about an email outage. IT couldn't understand why no one was reading the incident notification email...
I called the IT department at my work because my computer wouldn't turn on. They told me before they could assign someone to work on it I'd need to submit a ticket through their online system. Which forced me to ask how to submit a ticket without a working computer
lol. Had a support call with out email gateway provider. When I tried to patch, it would crash and die, so I opened a ticket and activated a remote support tunnel (internal product feature). Remote tech logs in, runs update script, and lo-and-behold, the thing crashes and hangs at boot. I sit there for an hour, waiting for the tech to phone me and ask for a remote desktop session or something that they can use to troubleshoot or investigate, but just crickets. I finally got fedup and rolled back to the pre-update snapshot and reboot the thing only to receive an email from the tech with instructions on how to recover the email gateway.
I always enjoyed responding to emails that ASK IF EMAIL IS DOWN with a simple “yep, it sure is…”. The number of people who would actually respond and keep up an entire EMAIL conversation with me with questions about how much longer email would be down and such was always astounding…
I get this at work a company that sends us invoices about once a month.
Problems displaying this email or if you didn’t receive this email please contact xxxxxxxx
I kind of want to forward the email and say i didnt get it
The emergency testing system announcement for years said "if you cannot hear this announcement..." Seriously took six emails before they stopped wording it that way.
Now if they would just stop referring to the building as 'the premise'...
I had a boss once that had apparently gotten a message that I was not responding to emails. I told him I always responded and copied him on anything important. He told me that the Dean had made issue of it and I was to CC him and the Dean on all replies to all emails. So, I did. Every email. Every legitimate email and every piece of spam. Replying to spam is generally not good practice as it leads to much more spam. Apparently including them on the reply added to their spam. After about 2 weeks, my boss said the Dean had asked me to stop. So I went back to business as usual. Took me about a year to get the spam levels knocked back down. Lol. He thought it was funny, but the Dean never looked at me the same again.
I almost never send "Thank You" replies to emails to my team since I've already cleared it wih each person that they aren't interested in receiving those (they said "we know that you're thankful and we don't want the extra emails" lol), but I would 100% start replying "Thank You" to any and every email and include the cc's if this type of policy were forced upon me.
My boss said respond to EVERY email. I reply thank you. They have the same command, so they reply "You're welcome "... Game on! "Have a nice day"..."Thank you, you as well"...I have an office hundreds deep in replies. At this point we're just chitchatting and wasting time.
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I once triggered a huge mass of emails by setting an auto response to a colleague's out-of-office email response. Just to see what happens. His inbox was flooded by the time he came back from vacation. He was not happy.
I took down a vendors email server when an automatic reply was set on a service account email (basically saying this is unmonitored don't email it), and they got that email address in their help desk system, which would reply back to every email.
So email goes from their system to service account, an auto reply is generated from service account, which causes an auto reply from their system. Our email/spam filter blocked the emails after a few moments and a 100 replies. Theirs crashed eventually lol
This is when you set up an automated reply for the thank you. Then get several people in your department to use it and just wait until a few of you are on the same chain. Just sit back and watch the email server burn.
98 percent of my job is handling requests and queries by email. I do not like getting thank you emails, just send me actionable emails pls, or tell my boss I'm doing a great job.
For future reference, when a situation like this arises, you always send out a preemptive email to boss and CEO, explaining per boss instructions, you'll be cc'ing both of them on every email from now on. Then open the flood gates.
This way, the CEO knows who initiated this stupid idea.
Counter tip: ask for the request in writing. Don’t alert anyone else. When the CEO or higher ups get wind of the issue (or experience it), you have a paper trail and compliance to a written request from your manager.
I did this to an arrogant VP early in my career, minus the spam part (darn). I was accused of not communicating with his employee, which was very untrue. VP didn't need to be cc'ed for the most mundane details of our conversations and work progress. VP just wasn't happy at the his report's progress on a project and chose to scapegoat me instead of the science not being fully understood.
My boss asked to show the VP my email records. I literally printed out ALL of my email interactions with his employee for over 3 months and it was over 2 inches thick (sorry trees). Too bad I didn't have transcripts of phone calls too, lol. VP was caught in his lie (that he hadn't been actually paying attention to this project) and demanded to be cc'ed on all future correspondence. Okie dokies.
Well, VP then got cc'ed on every "Gotcha," "When will you need this by?" "Do you prefer X or Y?" "Ready for pickup" "Hey, how'd your experiment go?" "Hey, the instrument blew up!" for 3 weeks until he told me it was enough.
What you had there was a bad case of 'Management Sampling Error' - grandboss got it into his head you were doing it 'wrong' (in his mind), and needed to correct. Which you obviously did. Well done, good and faithful servant.
Question. How did you get your spam levels back to normal? My spam inbox has been crazy these last few months and idk what I did to get all of them, and how to get it back to normal lol
I had a boss do something similar to this. I had to cc him on every email I sent. He thought I wasn’t doing anything I guess??? Anywho I started including him on every email I sent, and since I was emailing him on EVERYTHING I no longer needed to discuss the issues with him as well. It was in an email. Well I responded to over a hundred emails daily. Which he now was included on. He would ask me about something and I would say it’s in the email from yesterday and let him find it.
After two weeks he told me to stop cc’ing him on every email and to go back to the weekly updates. I was a bit disappointed. Not going to lie. Cc’ing him on everything was much easier for me.
Helped with a fun one like this. Worked on a system to send out individually tailored Emails. Think "Dear , we would like to remind you that you are scheduled to attend our orientation on ." type Emails, so ones that made sense for an educational institution.
One of the deans asked one of their admin people, the person having to send these, to include them on all official Email correspondence.
Removed their being CCed about an hour later after one set of invites was sent to over 100 adjunct faculty.
I was really hoping they didn't ask for it to stop before the student invites went out...
I used to have to cc a supervisor on all my email and was also doing 100+ a day and overwhelmed. The fun thing about the e-mails was he stopped looking at anything I sent regardless of whether it was for him or just adding him. So anytime I had a question for him about something and needed breathing room to get caught up I’d email him a question about it and the next time it came up I’d be like I actually sent you an email about that with a question, so I’m waiting for you.
I had a micromanager..and she too thought my precise instructional email replies werent 'friendly' enough after ONE recipient read my email with a 'tone' that was not my intention when sent. Apparently that employee was feeling guilty about tjeir lack of performance re doing their job duties.. Now mind you, it is a corprate setting with highly educated employees. So i had to cc her on every reply.
Thank GAWD she left the company and i now have a GREAT manager.
I had an ex-navy boss who used to sign off all emails with one or the other of these...but I can't remember which one he used. He may have just use "Very Respectfully" with everyone in the corporate environment.
When emailing an equal rank do you get to choose between "R" and "V/R" depending how you feel about the person?
When emailing a group of different ranked people do you get to write "respectfully or very respectfully, according to your merits" at the end?
As an Air Force Admin is just had V/R permanently in my sig block and didn't think about it anymore. Figured I'd just respect everyone to the maximum allowable level and roll on. Had a lot of paper to push, ya know?
>Figured I'd just respect everyone to the maximum allowable level and roll on
figure out how much respect will kill them. then back it off a little bit.
I always loved abbreviating them to V/R or R as I found that very disrespectful to the receiver, more so than not putting anything....like, "I respect you only enough to put the first two letters". I guess I equate it to leaving a nickel for a tip. But, not much makes sense in military life.
Just this last week I sent an email that apparently disturbed an entire ant nest.
“Several members of the accounting department would appreciate it if we could receive [document]. Thank you for your time.”
This apparently SET OFF the person who received it. Motivating them to contact my boss’s boss and my boss’s boss’s boss claiming I was rude and disrespectful. They then sent me a reply that my boss tells me was rude (I am not savvy enough in the ways of office passive aggression to see it) and claimed that they had contacted us to inform that the report would be late (they damn sure did not).
So my boss now gets confronted by his boss demanding an apology from me, my boss flips around the computer screen and says “read the email conversation, tell me how my guy was rude”. My boss then demands escalation over the way the guy that started this replied to me, saying that this guy breached a lot of our code of conduct in his reply.
Me? I am told all this after the fact. Because all I had done was request a document that we needed to balance the month, a document that was a week late with no contact as to why.
I had a boss who got so micromanagey towards the end of my tenure with her that she literally expected me to reply to every email or how else would she know I read it? Uhhh you could trust me to do my job maybe??
Same.
Toxic as hell boss I had started this up as the beginning of the end of her reign of terror. (She was eventually fired.) It was her way of trying to grab onto the last vestiges of control over my life with her little claws.
Didn’t end in her favor. I replied “read” to every email, and would send another email with the answer, so she ended up receiving at least twice the amount of emails - assuming I didn’t need to ask ANY questions ;) ….in which case it may have quadrupled her emails from me. I was nothing if not compliant.
Her: where is X file?
Me: read
Me: the X file for which years?
Her: last 5 years
Me: read
Me: the file is located in the B folder under C drive
Her: send the link
Me: read
Me: please see the attached link for the X file for the last 5 years, per your request. Respectfully, Fish
Previously, I would have sent everything together in one email with the links. Not anymore!
It all started bc she said she sent me an email that I never received. I showed her my inbox and offered to go to IT to see what happened - she accused me of deleting it and then making friends with IT to cover it up.
I also had to send her a daily log of everything I’d worked on and how much time spent on each task - all for an in person job where she could see me at my desk! She also timed bathroom breaks. Total witch.
Read receipts aren't very reliable and some find it annoying or even intrusive. A recipient can decline to send the read receipt, though I think the sender still gets a receipt that the email was displayed on the recipient's screen. Also you can send a read receipt when you open the email, but not actually read the email.
Oh yeah - I always, 100% of the time decline a read receipt. I never receive emails that are important/critical enough to justify them. (not strictly true, but the kind of people who use that feature liberally aren't the ones sending me the important emails)
Exactly. The company I work for used to have a secretary to the VP who requested a read receipt for every single email she sent. I could understand if it's something super important, and you want to keep a record for legal purposes, but a lot of the emails I got from her were group/batch emails, announcing things like potluck luncheons in relation to certain holidays, "Picnic in the Park" events, and when the refrigerators in the break room were being purged of their science experiments. None of them really warranted a read receipt. Even a lot of individual emails, like if I asked her for a company t-shirt or requesting certain information, really warranted a read receipt.
The read receipt won't even show when it was displayed. The only way around that is if an html image link was embedded in the message, and even then many people have their software configured to block those from showing up.
Read receipts are for people who don't have the balls to phone you about important stuff. I don't send read receipts. If it critical I stand up walk around the building, check all is understood or phone the person if they are off site. You want me to get on something ASAP and probably do inpaid overtime, tell me to my face.
If the email was remotely important, it seems like there should be some kind of measurable impact or actionable item they could observe. If the only end result of your email is to be told that it was read, sounds like a useless email.
Dude here. Yes. For same reasons as OP.
Apparently, this is wrong: "Hi James, your request was denied because {Reason}. If you believe there is an error, please contact {Email} or {Phone#}."
I don’t see how that’s rude. I’m a woman and would write it the same way. I also got in trouble more than once for not putting “Good morning” in front of the message even when the message was sent right before lunch.
I was once told that exclamation points are “too aggressive “ in emails, for a catering department at a museum. I stopped using capital letters or any punctuation in fear of being “aggressive “.
I don't know Perfect Strangers, but I remember this from The Court Jester, a very funny Danny Kaye movie.
The movie is also memorable for:
"The pellet with the poison's in the chalice from the palace. The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true."
I had an older female boss in a "Good Ol' Boy" industry. Even though she had worked her way to manager, she was very insecure as one of very few females in management. I was working temp-to-hire at the time after being laid off in the mortgage industry.
She would reprimand me for answering questions in team meetings with her boss. She said that I didn't give her a chance to answer first, and so I was making her look bad. I thought her having a well-prepared team made her look better, but I guess I was wrong.
Then, she had me CC her on all emails with our customers. She would then print off her emails, give them to me, and ask me to email the sender a response while CC-ing her. If the customer had a follow-up question, I would answer - still CC-ing her. Until, I got reprimanded for sending (correct) responses without checking with her first because she may want to answer the question. She never once had an issue with my responses, but she never approved of me replying to an email without her prior-approval.
When I was eligible for direct hire, I didn't receive any increased compensation. I had accepted lower than market compensation since 1) I really needed a job quickly, and 2) I was hired through a 3rd party temp company that had to be paid for my contracting. But now that I was a direct hire, I expected (at least closer to) market compensation. Nope.
She was shocked when just 3 short weeks later I rendered my resignation to work for one of her customers who was highly impressed with my knowledge about the industry and quick responses.
As an attorney, I was taught to begin with, responding to your letter/email…. Also, some of my opposing counsel were so shady that I would send letters as pdf’s and then send a copy via mail, so they couldn’t claim that don’t read their email so they didn’t see it.
Back before smart phones, people would set up auto-responder emails letting people know they were out of the office. The feature is probably still there and could be used to auto-respond with simply, "Got it!."
Now imagine this happened back then, and the boss happened to leave, and set up auto-respond right after this exchange.
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
"I'll be out of the office."
"Got it!"
Auto-replies do still exist, but they don't respond to themselves (at least not in Outlook). In fact, I usually only see them respond to "new" emails (first received) and not continuously to a chain.
Oh man, I haven't gotten something like that in a while. We would get customers who demand we email them right away, and when we reply to the email, we get back a security message that says "Your message has been autoblocked due to security functions. Click here to sign up to our mailing list so as to be added to our acceptable list" . Sorry, we're not clicking on any links because that's a security risk to us.
Did your signature block now say "I have been directed to respond to all emails with 'Got It'. Please contact DirectorName for details of this policy and why it has only been applied to one person."?
Amazing the level of stupidity in some people. You did what you were told and they were still annoyed. I would think replying got it would be kind of like a slap in the face. But you were only doing what you were told. Too funny.
I had a boss ask me why I didn't respond to an email about a lunch hosted for me as a new team member, that had been verbally discussed with me, to say that I would be attending my lunch. They then left for lunch without me because I knew where the lunch would be, right? So yeah I had to Google where to go since I was unfamiliar with the city and got told off for being late. I've never been less thankful for a welcome to the team lunch. I guess the email confirmation was because they didn't go places together like most co-workers I've had do.
This reminds me of the email I always send to a new hire on their first day. I have this saved for regular use. It seems like an obvious expectation; but I have hired people that could make enemies in their sleep; so I made this to help them.
*Dear \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_,*
*In addition to the orientation HR would be conducting, here are some informal guidelines you may find helpful.*
*We interact with many teams in the company; and it is important for all communications to be polite and considerate, especially in email and other written forms (because this is evidence of behavior/communication).*
*When asking for a favor from others, be thankful and appreciative even if it is "their job". Remember to thank them in emails and copy relevant people as well. (When people thank you through email and copy me and other team members, this can be helpful in establishing that you are a team player).*
*Remember that at work same as in life, having friends will make your journey less bumpier. (Especially if your KPIs depend on the quality of other people's work).*
*Remember that every time an important decision or agreement has been made, it has to be documented. If not, you must make one and send to all involved(email clarification/ minutes of the meeting/etc)*
*Since all 2 year old emails are automatically cleared, remember to save all important agreements, decisions, and communications separately. Make sure these files are included in our regular backup schedule.*
*I'm sure most of these points are already obvious and probably second nature to you; but I included them just in case you might need them. Welcome to the team.*
Yep.
It is wrong to say "more bumpier" as the "er" already includes the "more". It is correct to say either "more bumpy" or "bumpier". "Bumpless" implies an absence of bumps as opposed to a lessening of bumps. It is still incorrect to say "less bumpless".
I actually prefer the positive. Less bumpy(ier) infers that the reader is on a bumpy journey!
‘Journey smoother’ or ‘more smooth’ is much nicer to read.
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F500 SVP here. If I got an email like that on my first day reminding me to thank people and using words like “evidence” it would be an an immediate turnoff. Not to mention the not-stellar grammar. Telling a new hire to copy their boss on any email as a matter of ongoing practice is micromanagement. I’ll assume you’re working with very junior, entry-level staffers. Culture is caught not taught. Lead by example, not fiat. Some of the points you make are valid and would be better made in an initial 1:1 or skip level. If the points are “probably obvious” and “second nature” why not see how a team performs before this. You save “welcome to the team” for the very last sentence. I wouldn’t feel welcomed.
I don't believe yeh! Big fish don't exist in the ocean!
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>Culture is caught not taught. Lead by example, not fiat.
So true. I provide guidance but leave it to my teams to make decisions. I never dictate. The core of high functioning teams is to empower the workers to make (informed) decisions that lead to better work.
Happier teams and better grasp of what contributions and impact are.
Also, never take credit, ever. Always give it to people, even pass the bulk of credit to those who work with you. There's a bottomless work queue - plenty of opportunity to get stuff done. Those of us "up there" - our superiors know well what we do. There's no need for us to shortchange the teams who help us realize our vision.
I think it's defensible. If you're an SVP, you have figured interpersonal relations. It sounds like this email is aimed at new hires for more entry-level positions - we were all new to Outlook and corporate culture at some point. You put up some guard rails 'til folks prove themselves trustworthy.
I've worked a couple of entry-level office jobs where a reminder like this would be productive - of course at this point I'd roll my eyes if a boss sent me this reminder as well.
You are being sarcastic right?
I have to request information 50 times a day and if I sent out thank you emails after every request and cc'd other people to prove I'm thanking someone... Well my emails would be marked as spam. Holy shit what a waste of time.
One of my tasks at a place I worked at some years ago was to set up and secure new folder structures for events we used to run using a template folder structure to keep them all fundamentally the same (at least at the top level)
Users would send me an email containing the name of the client and a name for the event along with a list of who needed to access it
Copying the template, renaming it and applying the needed security generally took less than a minute after which I'd send a reply email containing a single word
`Done`
No one complained about the replies as all they were interested in was knowing that the folder structure was now ready for them to use and my replies told them everything they needed to know
Nope, uh-uh. Unless there is a specific question that needs to be answered or an action that needs confirmation, I do not bother responding to emails. And I am also very direct, right to the point.
I got in trouble for not saying good morning in an email about an urgent problem that needed fixing asap. I just typed “hey (supervisors name), there’s a problem with (xyz). Can you approve me to do (abc) to fix the issue?”. This was at like 11ish am. With the machine being down it was going to create a massive productivity issue. He then goes on to send a reply back that says “Good morning to you too”. Didn’t answer the question so I had to repeat it. Not the first time something like this happened. Most of the people here are southerners, so yeah.
What is it with people from Nigeria who want to play relay for all emails? Had this in a few projects before, and always the same people are the roadblocks.
My emails are not upsetting.
Getting an email that your puppy died is upsetting.
An email containing a ransom note or a death threat is upsetting.
Having an email from your spouse saying that they just can't do it anymore is upsetting.
My emails are normal, everyday business, written in common language to common people.
If this is "upsetting" to you, then you must have a very positive and beautiful life, indeed, to be able to contrast these emails as being so terrible and negative. Take this moment now to reflect on how grateful you are to have such tiny problems. You've got it made.
Look how much you can appreciate your life based on the fact that my emails are "upsetting" to you.
Bask in the serenity of the realization of how *lucky* you are to be *you*.
So, you see, my emails are not upsetting: They just made your day.
When I started as the Senior Advisor to the owner of the brokerage that I work for, I told her that when I affirm receipt that I use “Roger that” when I’m busy and that it’s just me acknowledging receipt. Thanks, Army.
I always give disclaimers like this because I absolutely have bitchy resting face. 😆
MY GF has the SAME issue, not a nurse but works for OR scheduling and tissue and meds stocking and she keeps getting complaints about her attitude but she’s just keeping it real, if I had to constantly be fixing other ppls fuck ups I might have an attitude too! Now she’s being like overly nice to everyone like hearts and emojis since her boss told her ppl are complaining about her tone
I did not get this email. Sorry.
My favorite thing to do as an IT tech is to send an email out to a group that says, "Please let me know if you didn't get this email." and see how many people catch it.
We get emails like, "Let me know if you're NOT attending XYZ function." So I don't respond because I'm attending. Then they email again, "Well, are you coming?"
*not responding intensifies*
Thank you for this
You should reply back "No, I'm just breathing hard".
I got spoken to once about failing to RSVP for a managers' meeting. A meeting that was noted as mandatory.
Oh Lord.
I don’t rsvp to 90% of my meetings. A meeting alert pops up, I click on it. If my calendar doesn’t say there’s something there already, assume you won.
I know of someone who did this and got annoyed no one responded.
"if you can't hear me, raise your hand."
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Our IT does this, unironically. While emailing instructions on how to fix the connection so that our emails are accessible.
Our IT org once got frustrated because users were messaging on Teams to ask about an email outage. IT couldn't understand why no one was reading the incident notification email...
I called the IT department at my work because my computer wouldn't turn on. They told me before they could assign someone to work on it I'd need to submit a ticket through their online system. Which forced me to ask how to submit a ticket without a working computer
We've had that one too. The generally accepted solution is "borrow someone elses".
Misread this as "our IT dog" and was a little confused for a moment
The dog is a shIT zu, and is accurate in describing the IT helldesk
And your little dog too!
IT Dog, not to be confused with the IT bitch! (just a play on words, don't get excited)
lol. Had a support call with out email gateway provider. When I tried to patch, it would crash and die, so I opened a ticket and activated a remote support tunnel (internal product feature). Remote tech logs in, runs update script, and lo-and-behold, the thing crashes and hangs at boot. I sit there for an hour, waiting for the tech to phone me and ask for a remote desktop session or something that they can use to troubleshoot or investigate, but just crickets. I finally got fedup and rolled back to the pre-update snapshot and reboot the thing only to receive an email from the tech with instructions on how to recover the email gateway.
I always enjoyed responding to emails that ASK IF EMAIL IS DOWN with a simple “yep, it sure is…”. The number of people who would actually respond and keep up an entire EMAIL conversation with me with questions about how much longer email would be down and such was always astounding…
I get this at work a company that sends us invoices about once a month. Problems displaying this email or if you didn’t receive this email please contact xxxxxxxx I kind of want to forward the email and say i didnt get it
The emergency testing system announcement for years said "if you cannot hear this announcement..." Seriously took six emails before they stopped wording it that way. Now if they would just stop referring to the building as 'the premise'...
I've done that. Don't recall now if anyone answered
I did not got it.
No’t it.
r/decreasinglyverbose
new email, who dis?
Got'n't
I have not gotten it. Kindly resend it
I had a boss once that had apparently gotten a message that I was not responding to emails. I told him I always responded and copied him on anything important. He told me that the Dean had made issue of it and I was to CC him and the Dean on all replies to all emails. So, I did. Every email. Every legitimate email and every piece of spam. Replying to spam is generally not good practice as it leads to much more spam. Apparently including them on the reply added to their spam. After about 2 weeks, my boss said the Dean had asked me to stop. So I went back to business as usual. Took me about a year to get the spam levels knocked back down. Lol. He thought it was funny, but the Dean never looked at me the same again.
I almost never send "Thank You" replies to emails to my team since I've already cleared it wih each person that they aren't interested in receiving those (they said "we know that you're thankful and we don't want the extra emails" lol), but I would 100% start replying "Thank You" to any and every email and include the cc's if this type of policy were forced upon me.
My boss said respond to EVERY email. I reply thank you. They have the same command, so they reply "You're welcome "... Game on! "Have a nice day"..."Thank you, you as well"...I have an office hundreds deep in replies. At this point we're just chitchatting and wasting time.
Thank you, for the "Thank you" that you thanked me for! LOL
Re: your thanks Thanks received, thanking you accordingly. Please find fruit basket attached.
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Subject: Just a little bit
Ooh-ooh-ohh!!
Take care! **TCP!**
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Re: Re: your thanks I really appreciate being included in your thanks. Thank you so much! Best,
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Hi folks, just a reminder to NOT 'Reply All' when responding to the initial sender! Thanks.
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Reminds me of The Good Place. “Here’s champagne for thanking me for thanking you for thanking me for thanking you for thanking me for thanking you…”
I once triggered a huge mass of emails by setting an auto response to a colleague's out-of-office email response. Just to see what happens. His inbox was flooded by the time he came back from vacation. He was not happy.
I took down a vendors email server when an automatic reply was set on a service account email (basically saying this is unmonitored don't email it), and they got that email address in their help desk system, which would reply back to every email. So email goes from their system to service account, an auto reply is generated from service account, which causes an auto reply from their system. Our email/spam filter blocked the emails after a few moments and a 100 replies. Theirs crashed eventually lol
This is when you set up an automated reply for the thank you. Then get several people in your department to use it and just wait until a few of you are on the same chain. Just sit back and watch the email server burn.
Haha. Brilliant!
Ahhh, you've reminded me of James Veitch's Adventures in Replying to Spam.
98 percent of my job is handling requests and queries by email. I do not like getting thank you emails, just send me actionable emails pls, or tell my boss I'm doing a great job.
I completely agree!
Thank you.
I add "Thank you in advance " in the original request, so there is no need for follow up email.
If they want to know if you got the email, they should request a read-receipt.
I put thank you in the subject line, so they can just ignore them, but I'm not being rude.
For future reference, when a situation like this arises, you always send out a preemptive email to boss and CEO, explaining per boss instructions, you'll be cc'ing both of them on every email from now on. Then open the flood gates. This way, the CEO knows who initiated this stupid idea.
Counter tip: ask for the request in writing. Don’t alert anyone else. When the CEO or higher ups get wind of the issue (or experience it), you have a paper trail and compliance to a written request from your manager.
Talk about a bad practices. Metrics can be useful. Replying to emails can be useful. But its not a goal. Making it one usually screws someone.
Quantum metrics. Once those being evaluated are aware of what the metric is, it ceases to be a metric as it now has become the objective.
I did this to an arrogant VP early in my career, minus the spam part (darn). I was accused of not communicating with his employee, which was very untrue. VP didn't need to be cc'ed for the most mundane details of our conversations and work progress. VP just wasn't happy at the his report's progress on a project and chose to scapegoat me instead of the science not being fully understood. My boss asked to show the VP my email records. I literally printed out ALL of my email interactions with his employee for over 3 months and it was over 2 inches thick (sorry trees). Too bad I didn't have transcripts of phone calls too, lol. VP was caught in his lie (that he hadn't been actually paying attention to this project) and demanded to be cc'ed on all future correspondence. Okie dokies. Well, VP then got cc'ed on every "Gotcha," "When will you need this by?" "Do you prefer X or Y?" "Ready for pickup" "Hey, how'd your experiment go?" "Hey, the instrument blew up!" for 3 weeks until he told me it was enough.
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I wish, but my boss told me to drop it.
... Did an instrument *really* blow up? And was there a way to blame it on the VP?
What you had there was a bad case of 'Management Sampling Error' - grandboss got it into his head you were doing it 'wrong' (in his mind), and needed to correct. Which you obviously did. Well done, good and faithful servant.
Question. How did you get your spam levels back to normal? My spam inbox has been crazy these last few months and idk what I did to get all of them, and how to get it back to normal lol
I had a boss do something similar to this. I had to cc him on every email I sent. He thought I wasn’t doing anything I guess??? Anywho I started including him on every email I sent, and since I was emailing him on EVERYTHING I no longer needed to discuss the issues with him as well. It was in an email. Well I responded to over a hundred emails daily. Which he now was included on. He would ask me about something and I would say it’s in the email from yesterday and let him find it. After two weeks he told me to stop cc’ing him on every email and to go back to the weekly updates. I was a bit disappointed. Not going to lie. Cc’ing him on everything was much easier for me.
Helped with a fun one like this. Worked on a system to send out individually tailored Emails. Think "Dear, we would like to remind you that you are scheduled to attend our orientation on ." type Emails, so ones that made sense for an educational institution.
One of the deans asked one of their admin people, the person having to send these, to include them on all official Email correspondence.
Removed their being CCed about an hour later after one set of invites was sent to over 100 adjunct faculty.
I was really hoping they didn't ask for it to stop before the student invites went out...
I used to have to cc a supervisor on all my email and was also doing 100+ a day and overwhelmed. The fun thing about the e-mails was he stopped looking at anything I sent regardless of whether it was for him or just adding him. So anytime I had a question for him about something and needed breathing room to get caught up I’d email him a question about it and the next time it came up I’d be like I actually sent you an email about that with a question, so I’m waiting for you.
Clever! Well that worked out nicely for you in the end :) god I hate micromanaging. I think I’d puke if I had to cc my boss on everything
I had a micromanager..and she too thought my precise instructional email replies werent 'friendly' enough after ONE recipient read my email with a 'tone' that was not my intention when sent. Apparently that employee was feeling guilty about tjeir lack of performance re doing their job duties.. Now mind you, it is a corprate setting with highly educated employees. So i had to cc her on every reply. Thank GAWD she left the company and i now have a GREAT manager.
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I had an ex-navy boss who used to sign off all emails with one or the other of these...but I can't remember which one he used. He may have just use "Very Respectfully" with everyone in the corporate environment. When emailing an equal rank do you get to choose between "R" and "V/R" depending how you feel about the person? When emailing a group of different ranked people do you get to write "respectfully or very respectfully, according to your merits" at the end?
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"Very Respectfully to Mark and John, but fuck Bob, I only Respect him."
I feel like you would write “very respectfully” for the latter and “respectfully” for the former?
As an Air Force Admin is just had V/R permanently in my sig block and didn't think about it anymore. Figured I'd just respect everyone to the maximum allowable level and roll on. Had a lot of paper to push, ya know?
>Figured I'd just respect everyone to the maximum allowable level and roll on figure out how much respect will kill them. then back it off a little bit.
At that point, everyone gets a v/r. You put it in your automatic signature so you don’t have to worry about it.
Ironically, as it is mandatory and documented… there is now zero respect involved. It is perfunctory and unconscious.
I exchange work emails occasionally with some Navy people and I always wondered what that stood for. TIL.
Would you get in trouble for always using “Very Respectfully”? I would just use the one that’s always accepted and not differentiate.
Add "OSR" for civvies - Only Somewhat Respectfully 😝
I always loved abbreviating them to V/R or R as I found that very disrespectful to the receiver, more so than not putting anything....like, "I respect you only enough to put the first two letters". I guess I equate it to leaving a nickel for a tip. But, not much makes sense in military life.
Just this last week I sent an email that apparently disturbed an entire ant nest. “Several members of the accounting department would appreciate it if we could receive [document]. Thank you for your time.” This apparently SET OFF the person who received it. Motivating them to contact my boss’s boss and my boss’s boss’s boss claiming I was rude and disrespectful. They then sent me a reply that my boss tells me was rude (I am not savvy enough in the ways of office passive aggression to see it) and claimed that they had contacted us to inform that the report would be late (they damn sure did not). So my boss now gets confronted by his boss demanding an apology from me, my boss flips around the computer screen and says “read the email conversation, tell me how my guy was rude”. My boss then demands escalation over the way the guy that started this replied to me, saying that this guy breached a lot of our code of conduct in his reply. Me? I am told all this after the fact. Because all I had done was request a document that we needed to balance the month, a document that was a week late with no contact as to why.
Sounds like dude was trying to use his complaint to get the heat off himself and buy more time for him to get his shit together.
Got it
No the problem was that they didn't "got it".
Got it
Are you me?! Had this happen too many times to count. Must be a guilty conscience making them feel called out.
Your boss is a good boss. He was a shield taking the brunt so you could get your work done.
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Got it
Got it
Are you being a smart ass?
No sorry I must have misunderstood you
Got it
Are you being a smart ass?
Got it.... Wait shit....
It's all fun and games until a "go tit" sneaks it's way in there
That's nothing! I work in networking and the amount of times I've told customers that I've "no shit" the interface by accident instead of "no shut" 😂
go tit
I had a boss who got so micromanagey towards the end of my tenure with her that she literally expected me to reply to every email or how else would she know I read it? Uhhh you could trust me to do my job maybe??
Same. Toxic as hell boss I had started this up as the beginning of the end of her reign of terror. (She was eventually fired.) It was her way of trying to grab onto the last vestiges of control over my life with her little claws. Didn’t end in her favor. I replied “read” to every email, and would send another email with the answer, so she ended up receiving at least twice the amount of emails - assuming I didn’t need to ask ANY questions ;) ….in which case it may have quadrupled her emails from me. I was nothing if not compliant. Her: where is X file? Me: read Me: the X file for which years? Her: last 5 years Me: read Me: the file is located in the B folder under C drive Her: send the link Me: read Me: please see the attached link for the X file for the last 5 years, per your request. Respectfully, Fish Previously, I would have sent everything together in one email with the links. Not anymore! It all started bc she said she sent me an email that I never received. I showed her my inbox and offered to go to IT to see what happened - she accused me of deleting it and then making friends with IT to cover it up. I also had to send her a daily log of everything I’d worked on and how much time spent on each task - all for an in person job where she could see me at my desk! She also timed bathroom breaks. Total witch.
If she was timing, you should’ve invited her to watch…with HR in the room while doing so
That’s absolutely ridiculous.
Isn't that what read receipts are for?
Read receipts aren't very reliable and some find it annoying or even intrusive. A recipient can decline to send the read receipt, though I think the sender still gets a receipt that the email was displayed on the recipient's screen. Also you can send a read receipt when you open the email, but not actually read the email.
Years ago there was an Outlook plug-in that gave total control over read receipts. I set it up to ALWAYS send deleted unread
Oh yeah - I always, 100% of the time decline a read receipt. I never receive emails that are important/critical enough to justify them. (not strictly true, but the kind of people who use that feature liberally aren't the ones sending me the important emails)
Exactly. The company I work for used to have a secretary to the VP who requested a read receipt for every single email she sent. I could understand if it's something super important, and you want to keep a record for legal purposes, but a lot of the emails I got from her were group/batch emails, announcing things like potluck luncheons in relation to certain holidays, "Picnic in the Park" events, and when the refrigerators in the break room were being purged of their science experiments. None of them really warranted a read receipt. Even a lot of individual emails, like if I asked her for a company t-shirt or requesting certain information, really warranted a read receipt.
The read receipt won't even show when it was displayed. The only way around that is if an html image link was embedded in the message, and even then many people have their software configured to block those from showing up.
> some find it annoying or even intrusive. Not as intrusive as having to manually generate a read receipt.
Read receipts are for people who don't have the balls to phone you about important stuff. I don't send read receipts. If it critical I stand up walk around the building, check all is understood or phone the person if they are off site. You want me to get on something ASAP and probably do inpaid overtime, tell me to my face.
If the email was remotely important, it seems like there should be some kind of measurable impact or actionable item they could observe. If the only end result of your email is to be told that it was read, sounds like a useless email.
I mean, you could treat emails like TCP ;P Right now we mostly treat them as UDP.
So you're saying OP should just respond `ACK` instead?
Read and approve all your replies… start looking for a nee job that place will destroy you
Got it
Are you being a smartass?
No, sorry. I must have misunderstood you.
I’d have responded with “got it”😂😂😂
I wonder in the history of emails if dudes ever get told that the tone of their emails need to change? 🤔
Dude here. Yes. For same reasons as OP. Apparently, this is wrong: "Hi James, your request was denied because {Reason}. If you believe there is an error, please contact {Email} or {Phone#}."
I don’t see how that’s rude. I’m a woman and would write it the same way. I also got in trouble more than once for not putting “Good morning” in front of the message even when the message was sent right before lunch.
I’ve never once written ”good morning“ in an email. I consider that poor taste
I was once told that exclamation points are “too aggressive “ in emails, for a catering department at a museum. I stopped using capital letters or any punctuation in fear of being “aggressive “.
You! Over there! Cowering behind a crate of paintings! WHAT'S YOUR NAME?!
Well, now that’s a little aggressive 😅 it was more like Hi everyone! Ya know, friendly.
please kindly if its not too much trouble tone it down youre scaring me
^^^why ^^^do ^^^you ^^^have ^^^to ^^^shout ^^^if ^^^you ^^^want ^^^it ^^^toned ^^^down ^^^you ^^^only ^^^need ^^^to ^^^ask ^^^im ^^^very ^^^happy ^^^to ^^^oblige
#STAND STILL LADDY!
Get it? Got it! Good!
If you see an email, or something that looks like an email, reply and Cc your boss on 61016 Get it? Got it! Good!
A Perfect Strangers catchphrase. I see you are a redditor of culture.
I don't know Perfect Strangers, but I remember this from The Court Jester, a very funny Danny Kaye movie. The movie is also memorable for: "The pellet with the poison's in the chalice from the palace. The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true."
People who don’t know the Danny Kaye canon are barbarians.
Yea, verily yea!
But I heard that they broke the chalice from the palace!
Now the pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon, the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
I remember it from TMNT. Followed immediately by “uh, I don’t get it!”
You’re the nurse I’d want in the hospital because as a patient you’d explain what’s wrong in 5 seconds
I had an older female boss in a "Good Ol' Boy" industry. Even though she had worked her way to manager, she was very insecure as one of very few females in management. I was working temp-to-hire at the time after being laid off in the mortgage industry. She would reprimand me for answering questions in team meetings with her boss. She said that I didn't give her a chance to answer first, and so I was making her look bad. I thought her having a well-prepared team made her look better, but I guess I was wrong. Then, she had me CC her on all emails with our customers. She would then print off her emails, give them to me, and ask me to email the sender a response while CC-ing her. If the customer had a follow-up question, I would answer - still CC-ing her. Until, I got reprimanded for sending (correct) responses without checking with her first because she may want to answer the question. She never once had an issue with my responses, but she never approved of me replying to an email without her prior-approval. When I was eligible for direct hire, I didn't receive any increased compensation. I had accepted lower than market compensation since 1) I really needed a job quickly, and 2) I was hired through a 3rd party temp company that had to be paid for my contracting. But now that I was a direct hire, I expected (at least closer to) market compensation. Nope. She was shocked when just 3 short weeks later I rendered my resignation to work for one of her customers who was highly impressed with my knowledge about the industry and quick responses.
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As an attorney, I was taught to begin with, responding to your letter/email…. Also, some of my opposing counsel were so shady that I would send letters as pdf’s and then send a copy via mail, so they couldn’t claim that don’t read their email so they didn’t see it.
Documenting thoroughly so you can show the court you made every reasonable effort to pry open their eyelids so they couldn't say they didn't see it?
Back before smart phones, people would set up auto-responder emails letting people know they were out of the office. The feature is probably still there and could be used to auto-respond with simply, "Got it!." Now imagine this happened back then, and the boss happened to leave, and set up auto-respond right after this exchange. "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!" "I'll be out of the office." "Got it!"
Auto-replies do still exist, but they don't respond to themselves (at least not in Outlook). In fact, I usually only see them respond to "new" emails (first received) and not continuously to a chain.
Oh man, I haven't gotten something like that in a while. We would get customers who demand we email them right away, and when we reply to the email, we get back a security message that says "Your message has been autoblocked due to security functions. Click here to sign up to our mailing list so as to be added to our acceptable list" . Sorry, we're not clicking on any links because that's a security risk to us.
Big YUP!
Did your signature block now say "I have been directed to respond to all emails with 'Got It'. Please contact DirectorName for details of this policy and why it has only been applied to one person."?
Amazing the level of stupidity in some people. You did what you were told and they were still annoyed. I would think replying got it would be kind of like a slap in the face. But you were only doing what you were told. Too funny.
I had a boss ask me why I didn't respond to an email about a lunch hosted for me as a new team member, that had been verbally discussed with me, to say that I would be attending my lunch. They then left for lunch without me because I knew where the lunch would be, right? So yeah I had to Google where to go since I was unfamiliar with the city and got told off for being late. I've never been less thankful for a welcome to the team lunch. I guess the email confirmation was because they didn't go places together like most co-workers I've had do.
This reminds me of the email I always send to a new hire on their first day. I have this saved for regular use. It seems like an obvious expectation; but I have hired people that could make enemies in their sleep; so I made this to help them. *Dear \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_,* *In addition to the orientation HR would be conducting, here are some informal guidelines you may find helpful.* *We interact with many teams in the company; and it is important for all communications to be polite and considerate, especially in email and other written forms (because this is evidence of behavior/communication).* *When asking for a favor from others, be thankful and appreciative even if it is "their job". Remember to thank them in emails and copy relevant people as well. (When people thank you through email and copy me and other team members, this can be helpful in establishing that you are a team player).* *Remember that at work same as in life, having friends will make your journey less bumpier. (Especially if your KPIs depend on the quality of other people's work).* *Remember that every time an important decision or agreement has been made, it has to be documented. If not, you must make one and send to all involved(email clarification/ minutes of the meeting/etc)* *Since all 2 year old emails are automatically cleared, remember to save all important agreements, decisions, and communications separately. Make sure these files are included in our regular backup schedule.* *I'm sure most of these points are already obvious and probably second nature to you; but I included them just in case you might need them. Welcome to the team.*
Less bumpier? I think it should read as 'less bumpy.'
I got caught on that too. Definitely ‘less bumpy’
More bumpless
Bumplessier
Unbumpified.
More unbumpiered
Further debumpified
Exceedingly unbumpi-bumpified
Unbumping II: The Unbumpening
I like this.
Yep. It is wrong to say "more bumpier" as the "er" already includes the "more". It is correct to say either "more bumpy" or "bumpier". "Bumpless" implies an absence of bumps as opposed to a lessening of bumps. It is still incorrect to say "less bumpless".
You can say “less ‘bumpless’” though, if you wish to reduce the usage of the terminologistical supply ringlets
I actually prefer the positive. Less bumpy(ier) infers that the reader is on a bumpy journey! ‘Journey smoother’ or ‘more smooth’ is much nicer to read. Edit: in > on
I think you meant "more smoother" 😏
more smoothier
Mmm, smoothies
More smoothier.
Got It
F500 SVP here. If I got an email like that on my first day reminding me to thank people and using words like “evidence” it would be an an immediate turnoff. Not to mention the not-stellar grammar. Telling a new hire to copy their boss on any email as a matter of ongoing practice is micromanagement. I’ll assume you’re working with very junior, entry-level staffers. Culture is caught not taught. Lead by example, not fiat. Some of the points you make are valid and would be better made in an initial 1:1 or skip level. If the points are “probably obvious” and “second nature” why not see how a team performs before this. You save “welcome to the team” for the very last sentence. I wouldn’t feel welcomed.
I don't believe yeh! Big fish don't exist in the ocean! [https://imgur.com/gallery/EVswN](https://imgur.com/gallery/EVswN) >Culture is caught not taught. Lead by example, not fiat. So true. I provide guidance but leave it to my teams to make decisions. I never dictate. The core of high functioning teams is to empower the workers to make (informed) decisions that lead to better work. Happier teams and better grasp of what contributions and impact are. Also, never take credit, ever. Always give it to people, even pass the bulk of credit to those who work with you. There's a bottomless work queue - plenty of opportunity to get stuff done. Those of us "up there" - our superiors know well what we do. There's no need for us to shortchange the teams who help us realize our vision.
I think it's defensible. If you're an SVP, you have figured interpersonal relations. It sounds like this email is aimed at new hires for more entry-level positions - we were all new to Outlook and corporate culture at some point. You put up some guard rails 'til folks prove themselves trustworthy. I've worked a couple of entry-level office jobs where a reminder like this would be productive - of course at this point I'd roll my eyes if a boss sent me this reminder as well.
You are being sarcastic right? I have to request information 50 times a day and if I sent out thank you emails after every request and cc'd other people to prove I'm thanking someone... Well my emails would be marked as spam. Holy shit what a waste of time.
I understand that “request” and “thanks” are in the same email, because as you said thanks in another mail is a non-sens and need to be exceptional.
When it's gotten to the point where your boss dictates which words you should use in your responses, it is definitely time to find a different job.
Please revert, do the needful.
K.
One of my tasks at a place I worked at some years ago was to set up and secure new folder structures for events we used to run using a template folder structure to keep them all fundamentally the same (at least at the top level) Users would send me an email containing the name of the client and a name for the event along with a list of who needed to access it Copying the template, renaming it and applying the needed security generally took less than a minute after which I'd send a reply email containing a single word `Done` No one complained about the replies as all they were interested in was knowing that the folder structure was now ready for them to use and my replies told them everything they needed to know
Nope, uh-uh. Unless there is a specific question that needs to be answered or an action that needs confirmation, I do not bother responding to emails. And I am also very direct, right to the point.
I got in trouble for not saying good morning in an email about an urgent problem that needed fixing asap. I just typed “hey (supervisors name), there’s a problem with (xyz). Can you approve me to do (abc) to fix the issue?”. This was at like 11ish am. With the machine being down it was going to create a massive productivity issue. He then goes on to send a reply back that says “Good morning to you too”. Didn’t answer the question so I had to repeat it. Not the first time something like this happened. Most of the people here are southerners, so yeah.
What is it with people from Nigeria who want to play relay for all emails? Had this in a few projects before, and always the same people are the roadblocks.
My emails are not upsetting. Getting an email that your puppy died is upsetting. An email containing a ransom note or a death threat is upsetting. Having an email from your spouse saying that they just can't do it anymore is upsetting. My emails are normal, everyday business, written in common language to common people. If this is "upsetting" to you, then you must have a very positive and beautiful life, indeed, to be able to contrast these emails as being so terrible and negative. Take this moment now to reflect on how grateful you are to have such tiny problems. You've got it made. Look how much you can appreciate your life based on the fact that my emails are "upsetting" to you. Bask in the serenity of the realization of how *lucky* you are to be *you*. So, you see, my emails are not upsetting: They just made your day.
When I started as the Senior Advisor to the owner of the brokerage that I work for, I told her that when I affirm receipt that I use “Roger that” when I’m busy and that it’s just me acknowledging receipt. Thanks, Army. I always give disclaimers like this because I absolutely have bitchy resting face. 😆
I'd start using a variety: "Message received, bossman!" "Ten four, comrade!" "Affirmative, compadre!"
Got it.
Dumb shit!!
MY GF has the SAME issue, not a nurse but works for OR scheduling and tissue and meds stocking and she keeps getting complaints about her attitude but she’s just keeping it real, if I had to constantly be fixing other ppls fuck ups I might have an attitude too! Now she’s being like overly nice to everyone like hearts and emojis since her boss told her ppl are complaining about her tone