text-y language in work emails

[star seed 7]

I keep it straight up profesh at all times. 

[Emo EMAW]

Emails can be formal or more formal, whichever.

but never informal?

Whichever.

[cfbandyman]

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     would get used a lot.

X100.      and  would be used pretty regularly if I could

[star seed 7]

Mikeyis4dcats sent me a  email once

[mocat]

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

strength in numbers

[cfbandyman]

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     would get used a lot.

X100.      and  would be used pretty regularly if I could

  is actually in skype for business  So, remove that one from the list.

[Mrs. Gooch]

I would use to email my co-workers in response to my boss's emails all the time if I could.

[420seriouscat69]

wacky and CNS should work together

Yes, Let's do this CNS. We can meet in the middle somewhere. lol 

[star seed 7]

wacky and CNS should work together

Yes, Let's do this CNS. We can meet in the middle somewhere!!  lol 

[Tobias]

j j j

[420seriouscat69]

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!

[sys]

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.

[sys]

Smileys

how do you know?

[420seriouscat69]

Sys thinks this guy's head is a mouth or something like that  I wouldn't trust him.

[Tobias]

you're so Emo sometimes, sys

[sys]

i often feel an affinity with emo.

[WillieWatanabe]

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.

[Rage Against the McKee]

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.

[Asteriskhead]

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.

[CNS]

wacky and CNS should work together

Yes, Let's do this CNS. We can meet in the middle somewhere. lol 

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[michigancat]

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.

[michigancat]

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???

[wetwillie]

email should just die altogether. 

[sys]

i love email.  it's the perfect communication medium.  phones can die in a fire.

[wetwillie]

They both are unnecessary, chat is the preferred medium.