…every single time I’ve run into that wording, it’s in response to a question that their initial email doesn’t address. You’ve never run into that?
Usually it’s when I have multiple questions lumped into one email, they answer the first one and ignore everything else, then get butthurt when I ask for a follow up. They can “I already fuckin told you” all day long, but they didn’t actually already tell me.
I’ve since learned to keep work emails at like a 3rd grade reading level. Couple sentences max, one question per. If I have lots of questions, they’ll be slowly trickling into your inbox spread out over a week or so. And if they start getting snarky, I start CCing their and my supervisor.
Welcome to any and every industry that uses email.
There’s an even better trick too: skip the fucking email and just go knock on their office. Gets shit done 10x faster.
Respond to my email in a stupid way, the next ones will be stupid proof. Whether or not we’re friends is up to you in this case, but if I need to treat you like a kid to get the information I need, you better believe I’m gonna.
…every single time I’ve run into that wording, it’s in response to a question that their initial email doesn’t address. You’ve never run into that?
Usually it’s when I have multiple questions lumped into one email, they answer the first one and ignore everything else, then get butthurt when I ask for a follow up. They can “I already fuckin told you” all day long, but they didn’t actually already tell me.
I’ve since learned to keep work emails at like a 3rd grade reading level. Couple sentences max, one question per. If I have lots of questions, they’ll be slowly trickling into your inbox spread out over a week or so. And if they start getting snarky, I start CCing their and my supervisor.
Welcome to any and every industry that uses email.
There’s an even better trick too: skip the fucking email and just go knock on their office. Gets shit done 10x faster.
I do not run into that. Every question etc. gets a number. If I fail to see the answer in their mail, that makes it easy to (not) find it.
If you hit me with a ton of questions constantly trickling in instead of just all at once, I will not be your friend.
That only works if you get a numbered response.
Respond to my email in a stupid way, the next ones will be stupid proof. Whether or not we’re friends is up to you in this case, but if I need to treat you like a kid to get the information I need, you better believe I’m gonna.