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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: mocat on May 05, 2016, 03:24:21 PM
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like LOLs and emojis and what not. the other day somebody wrote in an email "LMK when i can..." or something, and i kind of appreciated it. emails are unnecessarily formal most of the time in my line of work, at least in emails with clients or really anyone out of the office. when is this barrier going down? maybe it already has for some of you...?
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I only on rare occasions use a smiley face when I am emailing with a co-worker that I am friendly with.
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I use :) too much. It's usually with ppl i've already made a relationship with tho
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I do that sort of thing sometimes if I'm sending an informal email from my phone. If I'm at my desk, it's just as easy to type out "let me know" as it is to type LMK, though, so I doubt I ever go informal.
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I only on rare occasions use a smiley face when I am emailing with a co-worker that I am friendly with.
And I only do it when I need to clarify the tone of my email.
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I keep email relatively formal but definitely have way more work-related texts that are very casual
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my work also use slack a lot for internal communication, where I pretty much communicate via giphy.
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Someone who works for me does smiley faces and stuff in pretty formal communications that need to be retained in files for tons of years and often get brought up as evidence in court and junk. It's pretty LOL but I don't do anything about it because it's just LOL and not actually harmful.
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lots of people where i work send emails that terminate (usually to terminate) with "j". i don't like it because i don't know if they typed "j" into a computer or put a smiley face into a phone that was translated by my email to "j".
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at some point all the boomers will die out and we can all email using bbs-speak. what a time that will be.
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smiley typed into Outlook => "j" on iPhones at least
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Emails at my company are pretty formal. I wish I could import some of the gE emoticons into Lync tho. I'm sure :flush: would get used a lot.
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smiley typed into Outlook => "j" on iPhones at least
yes. but are they typing smileys or skipping straight to typing j's?
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smiley typed into Outlook => "j" on iPhones at least
yes. but are they typing smileys or skipping straight to typing j's?
Smileys
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smiley typed into Outlook => "j" on iPhones at least
yes. but are they typing smileys or skipping straight to typing j's?
what if, unbeknownst to you, you are conferring with the lowercase version of goEMAW's #1 poster?
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I keep it pretty formal.
One of my wife's friends always asks her why I am always mad. She ends everything in exclamation points and interprets my boring periods, at the end of sentences, as anger.
I guess emoji are needed by some(I judge those ppl daily).
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wacky and CNS should work together
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Also, same person types most things in all caps.
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amazing
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Emails can be formal or more formal, whichever. If I want it to be formal I send a memo.
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Also, same person types most things in all caps.
mother of god
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Emails can be formal or more formal, whichever.
but never informal?
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at some point all the boomers will die out and we can all email using bbs-speak. what a time that will be.
I've found the boomers to be the least formal, imho
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at some point all the boomers will die out and we can all email using bbs-speak. what a time that will be.
I've found the boomers to be the least formal, imho
Yeah, most of them are terrible at typing and grammar.
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it's amazing they've made it as far as they have
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I keep it straight up profesh at all times. :gocho:
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Emails can be formal or more formal, whichever.
but never informal?
Whichever.
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at some point all the boomers will die out and we can all email using bbs-speak. what a time that will be.
I've found the boomers to be the least formal, imho
Yeah, most of them are terrible at typing and grammar.
Amazingly true, the worst offenders of text/typing I've encountered are 50+. My work emails are pretty formal, occasionally I'll send something less formal if it's related to outside of work stuff or the reply on needs to be a few words. Most of the time if it's outside of work I'll just use lync or google hangouts on my desktop, much quicker anyways.
Emails at my company are pretty formal. I wish I could import some of the gE emoticons into Lync tho. I'm sure :flush: would get used a lot.
X100. :Wha: :runaway: :bang: and :sdeek: would be used pretty regularly if I could
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Mikeyis4dcats sent me a :peek: email once
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it's amazing they've made it as far as they have
strength in numbers
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at some point all the boomers will die out and we can all email using bbs-speak. what a time that will be.
I've found the boomers to be the least formal, imho
Yeah, most of them are terrible at typing and grammar.
Amazingly true, the worst offenders of text/typing I've encountered are 50+. My work emails are pretty formal, occasionally I'll send something less formal if it's related to outside of work stuff or the reply on needs to be a few words. Most of the time if it's outside of work I'll just use lync or google hangouts on my desktop, much quicker anyways.
Emails at my company are pretty formal. I wish I could import some of the gE emoticons into Lync tho. I'm sure :flush: would get used a lot.
X100. :Wha: :runaway: :bang: and :sdeek: would be used pretty regularly if I could
:bang: is actually in skype for business :surprised: So, remove that one from the list.
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I would use :bang: to email my co-workers in response to my boss's emails all the time if I could.
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wacky and CNS should work together
Yes, Let's do this CNS. We can meet in the middle somewhere. lol ;)
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wacky and CNS should work together
Yes, Let's do this CNS. We can meet in the middle somewhere!! lol ;)
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j j j
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at some point all the boomers will die out and we can all email using bbs-speak. what a time that will be.
I've found the boomers to be the least formal, imho
Yeah, most of them are terrible at typing and grammar.
Yeah, what a bunch of knuckleheads I tell ya!
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what if, unbeknownst to you, you are conferring with the lowercase version of goEMAW's #1 poster?
they show up in my email as uppercase j's. i converted them to lowercase for goEMAW.
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Smileys
how do you know?
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Sys thinks this guy's head is a mouth or something like that :lol: I wouldn't trust him.
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you're so Emo sometimes, sys
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i often feel an affinity with emo.
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I recently realized I was using the exclamation point too much. I would never use more than one at a time, but didn't realize how it read from someone else's vantage point.
Also had an older coworker who would use "........" a lot, usually to end emails.
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I find myself borrowing the " . . ." from Dax every now and then. The spaces in the ellipse really make it stand out. I haven't worked "sad, really" into a work email yet, though.
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I exchange emails with someone who has a secretary handle all of his correspondence.
He did not find it amusing when I insinuated that his secretary runs his company.
I'm of the opinion that all work emails should be formal. I'm also of the opinion that people should read their work emails more diligently.
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wacky and CNS should work together
Yes, Let's do this CNS. We can meet in the middle somewhere. lol ;)
:cheers:
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at some point all the boomers will die out and we can all email using bbs-speak. what a time that will be.
I've found the boomers to be the least formal, imho
Yeah, most of them are terrible at typing and grammar.
A big factor is so many of them didn't learn how to type because that was supposed to be a job only for their lady secretaries.
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related: I get such a kick out of old movies where there's like a boss man and his office has this big desk and no computer. Like WTF does he do all day?
Elf is the one that gets me every time. Like, how the eff does James Caan not have a goddam computer in his office in 2003???
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email should just die altogether.
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i love email. it's the perfect communication medium. phones can die in a fire.
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They both are unnecessary, chat is the preferred medium.
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related: I get such a kick out of old movies where there's like a boss man and his office has this big desk and no computer. Like WTF does he do all day?
Elf is the one that gets me every time. Like, how the eff does James Caan not have a goddam computer in his office in 2003???
honestly, it's hard for me to imagine how the world functioned before the internet, and i was alive back then.
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They both are unnecessary, chat is the preferred medium.
my god wetwillie, you're trying to pull the world down on our heads.
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To you youngsters, I suggest using as much "texty" and "bbs" "language" as possible in your emails to upper management, particularly if they're 45 plus and well educated. Really show them how hip and cool you are, you'll go places, trust me.
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stfu, phb
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stfu, phb
I really feel like we're all coming together as a team, pizza and sodas on me tomorrow!
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crushing those q3 numbers, johnson sounded stoked :thumbs:
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I once got pissed about something and did a snarky TIA in an email to my entire department at a Fortune 100 company. (Signs that goEMAW is affecting your life? Or maybe ksufans?) Several weeks later, they sent out communication indicating that abbreviations should not be used in emails. I like to think that it took them a couple weeks to decide what TIA meant.
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related: I get such a kick out of old movies where there's like a boss man and his office has this big desk and no computer. Like WTF does he do all day?
Elf is the one that gets me every time. Like, how the eff does James Caan not have a goddam computer in his office in 2003???
A surprising amount of old, powerful people just dictate stuff to secretaries/have all correspondence printed out.
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They both are unnecessary, chat is the preferred medium.
What a horrible opinion
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The other day I replied to a work email with a simple
:thumbs
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i love email. it's the perfect communication medium. phones can die in a fire.
sys one time I had like 79 voicemails I hadn't listened to an my voicemail inbox was full and my thought was "good now they'll finally send a rough ridin' email."
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related: I get such a kick out of old movies where there's like a boss man and his office has this big desk and no computer. Like WTF does he do all day?
Elf is the one that gets me every time. Like, how the eff does James Caan not have a goddam computer in his office in 2003???
A surprising amount of old, powerful people just dictate stuff to secretaries/have all correspondence printed out.
yeah but what does he do all day
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i love email. it's the perfect communication medium. phones can die in a fire.
sys one time I had like 79 voicemails I hadn't listened to an my voicemail inbox was full and my thought was "good now they'll finally send a rough ridin' email."
How do you guys feel about voicemails that also get sent to your email? That is what our system does. I almost always open the one in email and delete the one on the phone without listening.
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that's what i do... not sure i even know my pin. compared to the alternative it's great
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related: I get such a kick out of old movies where there's like a boss man and his office has this big desk and no computer. Like WTF does he do all day?
Elf is the one that gets me every time. Like, how the eff does James Caan not have a goddam computer in his office in 2003???
A surprising amount of old, powerful people just dictate stuff to secretaries/have all correspondence printed out.
yeah but what does he do all day
probably gets super drunk
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i love email. it's the perfect communication medium. phones can die in a fire.
sys one time I had like 79 voicemails I hadn't listened to an my voicemail inbox was full and my thought was "good now they'll finally send a rough ridin' email."
How do you guys feel about voicemails that also get sent to your email? That is what our system does. I almost always open the one in email and delete the one on the phone without listening.
On ours, when you delete the email from your inbox it also deletes it from the phone.
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My admin asked me to send an update of all the doctors i've hired, for a retreat we're having for them. I had a long list of them and at the end of the email, I posted this.
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She laughed her ass off. :gocho:
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Really, you should just go by your real name on here. Wacky is always IRL.
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:D
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sys one time I had like 79 voicemails I hadn't listened to an my voicemail inbox was full and my thought was "good now they'll finally send a rough ridin' email."
you'd think they'd figure it out, but phone people aren't very bright.
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Emails at my company are pretty formal. I wish I could import some of the gE emoticons into Lync tho. I'm sure :flush: would get used a lot.
:bang: and :facepalm: would probably be my two most used.
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I keep it pretty professional in all of my emails. We have a chat for just our department and it is very informal with lots of gifs