More things you should NEVER do in Office Email

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  • weevil66
    weevil66 Posts: 600 Member
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    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.
    YES! Inappropriate backgroundsare a no-no. Doctors hate when patients wear perfume because they have to smell like a hundred different perfumes in a day, I hate when you want to "personalize" your BUSINESS emails with a stupid background and I get visually battered by 50 of them in a day. Also, can it with the motivational quotes. I see you sitting there in that cubicle, uninspired by your own advice, which I have to read everytime you send me an email.
    Note to self....remove hello kitty sparkly email backgound and motivational quote "turn that frown upside down because when you have lemons make lemon cheesecake" before mailing blairbear.
  • torygirl79
    torygirl79 Posts: 307 Member
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    Use cc instead of bcc on group emails.
  • hellokathy
    hellokathy Posts: 540 Member
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    People need to watch what they're forwarding. Sometimes my boss forwards us stuff where only the last mail contains any important information for us but on the bottom you can see a whole long conversation between two people that clearly wasn't meant to be forwarded as well.
  • tmanfromtexas
    tmanfromtexas Posts: 928 Member
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    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..
    Thank you for providing this tid bit of information. I couldnt stop laughing.
    Best Retards,
    TMAN...
  • minnesota_deere
    minnesota_deere Posts: 232 Member
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    DO NOT HAVE AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR EMAIL A DISCLAIMER STATING " I AM NOT YELLING AT YOU, I TYPE ALL EMAILS IN CAPITAL LETTERS, I FIND IT EASIER TO TYPE THIS WAY", THIS IS FROM A SENIOR MTG UNDERWRITER AND SHE STILL HAS IT TO THIS DAY, ITS BEEN 2 YEARS!
  • Witchmoo
    Witchmoo Posts: 261 Member
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    Don't sign off with 'kind retards' instead of 'kind regards'.......

    I'm so glad I'm not the only one to have done this!
  • Blayzn10Tiffers
    Blayzn10Tiffers Posts: 181
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    Double check before you use "reply all"
    Especially when your reply was "WTF???"

    or when asking someone to translate for your ebonics speaking boss :)
  • tmanfromtexas
    tmanfromtexas Posts: 928 Member
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    my wife had been talking with her boss about gardening one day and she'd mentioned a type of flowering bush we had which had a very strong sweet smell. Couple days later her boss was trying to tell his wife they should plant one but couldn't remember the type. Called my wife in her office and she answered on speaker phone. "Hey, jackie, what's the name of your sweet smelling bush?"

    Holy Christ. That is way too funny.
  • dhakiyya
    dhakiyya Posts: 481 Member
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    Like the word "DOCK" for instance.

    Example:
    "this authorization is for the construction of a 4' by 250' DOCK, with a 6' by 20' terminal platform.

    As luck would have it, the i is right next to the O

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • rjt1000
    rjt1000 Posts: 700 Member
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    my wife had been talking with her boss about gardening one day and she'd mentioned a type of flowering bush we had which had a very strong sweet smell. Couple days later her boss was trying to tell his wife they should plant one but couldn't remember the type. Called my wife in her office and she answered on speaker phone. "Hey, jackie, what's the name of your sweet smelling bush?"

    Holy Christ. That is way too funny.

    Yeah, I couldn't resist calling him up with "I think you and I need to have a little chat about your interest in my wife's bush..."
  • Koldnomore
    Koldnomore Posts: 1,613 Member
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    I hate, hate when you have an original email, it goes to a few people, then a few people more - everyone commenting and adding, but NEVER EVER deleting any of the crap down below that is no longer relevant! Emails that are 10 pages with lines and lines of signatures and nonsense are irritating as hell.

    This^^

    Also, it really depends on your audience at work what is appropriate or not appropriate. Our little group of IT geeks constantly email things like " WTF! " to each other as well as other things. We know exactly what they mean and it is a lot faster than actually trying to figure out why the VP on the 6th floor has 3GB of porn on his office computer.
  • Irish_eyes75
    Irish_eyes75 Posts: 475
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    Never type an email to your boss when you're pissed!!

    All of the partners use "Best Regards" = annoying

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