It worked for him.
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Not cooking tonight. Getting dim sum.
And I have to bring @Melz2 ice cream and chocolate sauce.
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I get it, you’re rude. Exchanging a greeting, regardless of medium, is a polite way to establish contact.
Being online doesn’t mean I’m available. If you’re rude, I probably will choose not to be.
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Or better - “I need to talk to you about something important, but don’t have time today”
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No. I don’t like that. Subject’s for the subject. Body is for what you want to say. If you want a medium with no subject, then slack me, jabber me, text me. Email does, in my mind anyway, require some small bit of formality.
But I do know people that do this questionable practice of only engaging the subject line, and most of them are thoughtful enough to end it with a , which stands for end-of-message. I feel like putting my entire paragraph-long reply into the subject with an eom at the end of it. Hey, you started it!
I will assume that they just forgot to include a title, which is ok if it was truly an accident. I usually start a brand new email without the recipients listed and without a subject. Subject is better constructed once the message is nearly done. And don’t include recipients until you are ready to send or else you might accidently hit Send before you’re done. Then you look dumb.
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A bold assumption.
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Legendary.
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b-but, “K” is the complete opposite of the “hi” ambiguity. It is saying “I acknowledge that your transmission was both received and read by me however I have nothing to add, over and out” and it is just one letter. There is absolutely nothing open-ended or ambiguous about it, nor does it waste any time for you or them.
the alternatives are either:
no response, so you don’t know if their internet’s down, they missed it in their inbox, or they’re buying time/ignoring you.
or
“Hey that’s great. We really need to play a round of golf again sometime. Best regards to the wife and kids!
TTFN,
-Person”
I will gladly take K all day, everyday.
fuckin love K.
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Yeah, most of the time… I do use salutation in the cases when I’m emailing a group of people and asking someone specific in that group for something.
Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lynda Carter, Brian Cox, and Rob Lowe? I’m in!
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hi,
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I sometimes use deliberately vague or ambiguous subject lines if the content is sensitive, just in case somebody else sees the subject line on their display.
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One manager on my floor at work (not MY manager) is always calling his subordinates into his office. Fortunately he just prefers having impromptu meetings in his office, not at cubicles. Other managers, if they call us in, preface any remarks with “Nothing to worry about, we just…” Usually they’re warning us of upcoming personnel changes. But it still tends to freak me out.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who has heart attacks about being fired.
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'oh i’hs 'augh a gooh ime ooh alk I 'us bihh my ‘ounge real har’
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Mgmt text on Friday eve: Can we meet first thing Monday morning?
Me: That’s before my scheduled hours, can we do it after the all-hands meeting?
Mgmt: Oh, umm.
I proceed to melt down for a couple hours until a further message comes in that it’s just a change in who I report to.
GOOD ;AKSDJ;FAUEL;RIU;KCJV;KLADHS U;LZCMRS TIMES!!!
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I don’t mind if people use any salutation they like as long as they follow it up with whatever it is they want to say or at least a general idea of the conversation to follow.
At the same time, I suspect many people realize if they put all that info up front you can safely ignore it until you’re ready to deal with them. If they put something vague you have to respond to find out what they want and then they’ve got you.
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I get irrationally angry when someone IMs me at work with just “hi”. In fact unless it’s someone I really need to talk to, I just passively aggressively ignore them until they actually, you know, bother to ask me a question.
If they are sitting around waiting for me to exchange pleasantries before they can get down to the business of asking for something, maybe it’s just not that important.
Motherfucking amen.
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I especially love it when someone has a signature like
Thanks,
Bob
It’s like, FFS how lazy can you get. It’s especially funny to me when people that do this forget they have that as a signature and then add a “thanks” at the end of their message before the signature.
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