Manners maketh man.
Why is it that life's usual courtesies are overlooked when it come to email?
I often spend considerable time researching and writing a detailed email to someone, to not receive any kind of response - not even a thank you.
Adding to the irritation are incoming emails from friends and colleagues that contain a 'copy and pasted' message or a screen shot together with a subject, if you lucky enough to get a subject that is, something like:
WHAT IS THIS
No "hello how are you, how have you been keeping", just a shouted message.
I feel like responding with something like "Sod off and learn some manners", or "Turn the friggin' caps lock off you moron" but you don't. Do you?
Instead you wade through line after line of text each having two or three words on it - because the text has been quoted, re-quoted, wrapped, re-wrapped and quoted again by numerous email clients - trying to work out what the hell they want.
And their excuse for this?
I'm not very good with 'putas!
Well learn! You learned how to wash, dress, eat with a knife and fork, use a toilet. Even how to sporadically say please and thank-you in conversation, can email be such a challenge?
Here's a starter.
That's me done, now I'm off to my anger management class. :)
Manners maketh man.
William of Wykeham, Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford (1324 - 1404)
I often spend considerable time researching and writing a detailed email to someone, to not receive any kind of response - not even a thank you.
Adding to the irritation are incoming emails from friends and colleagues that contain a 'copy and pasted' message or a screen shot together with a subject, if you lucky enough to get a subject that is, something like:
WHAT IS THIS
No "hello how are you, how have you been keeping", just a shouted message.
I feel like responding with something like "Sod off and learn some manners", or "Turn the friggin' caps lock off you moron" but you don't. Do you?
Instead you wade through line after line of text each having two or three words on it - because the text has been quoted, re-quoted, wrapped, re-wrapped and quoted again by numerous email clients - trying to work out what the hell they want.
And their excuse for this?
I'm not very good with 'putas!
Well learn! You learned how to wash, dress, eat with a knife and fork, use a toilet. Even how to sporadically say please and thank-you in conversation, can email be such a challenge?
Here's a starter.
That's me done, now I'm off to my anger management class. :)
Manners maketh man.
William of Wykeham, Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford (1324 - 1404)
Currently listening to: Never Let You Go by Third Eye Blind.
posted by Merl at
8:19 AM
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Anonymous, at 1:35 AM
Email is a strange thing - a fast paced medium of communication. I used to get offended at bad spellers and short, curt emails but now I do it myself.
Why?
Because I get lots of email. Lots. And the most important thing is getting the message across - so I do it quickly and efficiently.
Email will develop its own set of rules and I believe politeness will fall by the wayside - for good reason.
Carey
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