text-y language in work emails

[mocat]

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...?

[Mrs. Gooch]

I only on rare occasions use a smiley face when I am emailing with a co-worker that I am friendly with.

[420seriouscat69]

I use too much. It's usually with ppl i've already made a relationship with tho

[Rage Against the McKee]

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.

[Mrs. Gooch]

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.

[michigancat]

I keep email relatively formal but definitely have way more work-related texts that are very casual

[michigancat]

my work also use slack a lot for internal communication, where I pretty much communicate via giphy.

[steve dave]

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.

[sys]

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".

[mocat]

at some point all the boomers will die out and we can all email using bbs-speak. what a time that will be.

[Tobias]

smiley typed into Outlook => "j" on iPhones at least

[Brock Landers]

Emails at my company are pretty formal.  I wish I could import some of the gE emoticons into Lync tho.  I'm sure     would get used a lot.

[sys]

smiley typed into Outlook => "j" on iPhones at least

yes.  but are they typing smileys or skipping straight to typing j's?

[Mrs. Gooch]

smiley typed into Outlook => "j" on iPhones at least

yes.  but are they typing smileys or skipping straight to typing j's?

Smileys

[mocat]

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?

[CNS]

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).

[Tobias]

wacky and CNS should work together

[steve dave]

Also, same person types most things in all caps.

[Tobias]

amazing

[Emo EMAW]

Emails can be formal or more formal, whichever.  If I want it to be formal I send a memo.

[mocat]

Also, same person types most things in all caps.

mother of god

[mocat]

Emails can be formal or more formal, whichever.

but never informal?

[star seed 7]

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

[Rage Against the McKee]

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.

[Tobias]

it's amazing they've made it as far as they have