text-y language in work emails

[sys]

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. 

[sys]

They both are unnecessary, chat is the preferred medium.

my god wetwillie, you're trying to pull the world down on our heads.

[sonofdaxjones]

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.

[Tobias]

stfu, phb

[sonofdaxjones]

stfu, phb

I really feel like we're all coming together as a team, pizza and sodas on me tomorrow!

[Tobias]

crushing those q3 numbers, johnson sounded stoked

[chum1]

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.

[Kat Kid]

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.

[star seed 7]

They both are unnecessary, chat is the preferred medium.

What a horrible opinion

[nicname]

The other day I replied to a work email with a simple

:thumbs

[Emo EMAW]

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."

[mocat]

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

[Fedor]

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.

[Tobias]

that's what i do... not sure i even know my pin.  compared to the alternative it's great

[Rage Against the McKee]

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

[WillieWatanabe]

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.

[420seriouscat69]

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.



She laughed her ass off. 

[slobber]

Really, you should just go by your real name on here. Wacky is always IRL.

[420seriouscat69]

 

[sys]

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.

[schreds21]

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.

and  would probably be my two most used.

[The Big Train]

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