More things you should NEVER do in Office Email

oregonzoo
oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
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-Type "lol"
-Use text talk
-Have your photo in your signature(creepy as duck and totally jarring before coffee)
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  • rose313
    rose313 Posts: 1,146 Member
    End it with "Love" instead of "Sincerely"

    Use z's instead of s's "THANKZ GUYZ"

    tYpE LyK DiS

    use no punctuation whatsoever because its not even really important theyll get the point anyway either way so whatever
  • guapogringo
    guapogringo Posts: 201
    Double check before you use "reply all"
  • foxyforce
    foxyforce Posts: 3,078 Member
    Double check before you use "reply all"

    this
  • Icelandic_Saga
    Icelandic_Saga Posts: 2,926 Member
    Double check before you use "reply all"

    :laugh:
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    -Have your photo in your signature(creepy as duck and totally jarring before coffee)

    People actually do that??
  • scottg1024
    scottg1024 Posts: 224
    Double check before you use "reply all"
    Especially when your reply was "WTF???"
  • foxyforce
    foxyforce Posts: 3,078 Member
    some people will also use an old email to start a new one.

    ie. they receive a msg from their boss saying "your frontline team doesn't know what they are doing about this follow up with them", and then they start a new msg in that window, and forward the old copy.

    i actually had a politician do this to me before. i sent an email about a protest at my school, and it was from my work email (mistake one on my part, but my employers back me up) and it was forwarded to a politician who works for the same organization, saying "it is scary what some of these kids do for a living!", and then they followed up with me...with that in the email. they were in big ****!!!! i received a msg on my phone monday morning apologizing.
  • bethanylaugh
    bethanylaugh Posts: 237
    Just got one like this from a guy 20 years my senior:

    "
    Awsome!

    ps. how do [question]? - do I require more than a beard? tee hee..

    Smiles,
    [name]
    "

    ...don't do any of that.
  • AthenaErr
    AthenaErr Posts: 278 Member
    Dont *****
  • PBsMommy
    PBsMommy Posts: 1,166 Member
    Don't use any smiley faces, frowny faces, etc. My boss hates them.

    Oh and DO make sure you are actually sending the email to the right person. This one has screwed me a couple of times!
  • PhillyTD
    PhillyTD Posts: 375 Member
    Using Bible quotes in your signature.
  • AthenaErr
    AthenaErr Posts: 278 Member
    ^^^ heh heh love the cryptic!
  • JoolieW68
    JoolieW68 Posts: 1,879 Member
    Double check before you use "reply all"

    This so much. We have almost 2000 employees at our headquarters building (including manufacturing). Someone will send out an email to EVERYONE with something like "Missing Box for parts from Acme Widgets". Then people will use reply all to tell the sender to check with so and so, and then another person will reply all with something like 'oh I saw that box on the receiving dock'. Then finally the original sender will reply all again with 'missing box found'.

    AAARRRRRGGGG
  • dirtydmvkid
    dirtydmvkid Posts: 184
    SPELL. WORDS. WRONG. Triple check if you have to.
  • EnergyYesPlease
    EnergyYesPlease Posts: 104
    Or when you think you're reporting someone for foul language and how they're acting in the office, when instead of sending the email to your boss it was sent to that person, FML!!! LOL
  • twistofcain
    twistofcain Posts: 190
    Hitting send with a message telling your boss to "Go *kitten* Themselves" when you meant to close it out entirely.
  • ElleBee615
    ElleBee615 Posts: 177
    Double check before you use "reply all"
    Especially when your reply was "WTF???"

    ALL. OF. THIS.
  • KaiHuk
    KaiHuk Posts: 49
    Forget to blind cc...
  • laurajordana
    laurajordana Posts: 48 Member
    don't use phrases that don't make sense like "peruse briefly". I made this mistake my first job out of college. No one called me out on it but I realized later than peruse meant to "examine carefully" lol
  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    Have the quote "Don't take life to seriously, nobody gets out alive anyways" as a signature and a blue cloudy background. Yep, a coworker of mine has that.
  • Ashley_Panda
    Ashley_Panda Posts: 1,404 Member
    Hitting send with a message telling your boss to "Go *kitten* Themselves" when you meant to close it out entirely.

    One day, baby, one day.
  • CanuckLove
    CanuckLove Posts: 673 Member
    Don't plan to end your email with "Regards" ... The "g" and the "t" are awfully close together and if you don't look it over before you send........ awkwaaaaaaaaard..
  • castlerobber
    castlerobber Posts: 528 Member
    When our IT manager was standardizing our signature files, he thought everyone in the office should have their photo in their signature. The CEO and COO shot that down pretty quick, thank goodness.
  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
    We had a secretary send out a bestiality clip on her email and CC'd her boss, the VP of the legal department.
  • stunningalmond
    stunningalmond Posts: 275 Member
    Be careful what you're forwarding. Something meant for one person's eyes isn't necessarily meant for another person's. It's called tact people!
  • MsTanya77
    MsTanya77 Posts: 357 Member
    Don't talk about the boss or the company! One of my friends got fired for this!!! They pulled 3 months of emails and saw where she was doggin' out the dept and promptly fired her.

    Don't reply to ALL when you only want to address ONE PERSON.
  • lbetancourt
    lbetancourt Posts: 522 Member
    -Have your photo in your signature(creepy as duck and totally jarring before coffee)

    People actually do that??

    we do this
  • ZyheeMoongazer
    ZyheeMoongazer Posts: 343 Member
    Double check before you use "reply all"

    ^^^
    My company actually disabled this in our email system for a while.
  • jsmcintyre
    jsmcintyre Posts: 26 Member
    Using Bible quotes in your signature.

    unless that is appropriate for your job/position/office. You would expect that from a chaplain or pastor.
  • RhonndaJ
    RhonndaJ Posts: 1,615 Member
    Send religion based chain emails to everyone in your address book.

    I've never done this, I'm on the receiving end.

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