Millennial hipsters starting emails with "Hello" - WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Various twenty year olds at my workplace have started doing this and it's driving me crazy. Why are you wasting my time with stupid platitudes and pretending that saying "hello" to me makes this email collegial? Just send me the information you need to in this email and stop pretending you have created some new way of seeming friendly.

It's not rude to just start an email with what you want! JUST DO IT!! STOP WASTING MY TIME!!!

Signed,

Goodbye.

(Seriously, like, does that help anyone? NO! Nobody needs help figuring out that the email is starting or ending, we can tell by the space on the page! Just write the normal stuff you need and let's get this over with for both of us, please.)

WOW. Seek some help. Your reaction to this is WAY over the top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Various twenty year olds at my workplace have started doing this and it's driving me crazy. Why are you wasting my time with stupid platitudes and pretending that saying "hello" to me makes this email collegial? Just send me the information you need to in this email and stop pretending you have created some new way of seeming friendly.

It's not rude to just start an email with what you want! JUST DO IT!! STOP WASTING MY TIME!!!

Signed,

Goodbye.

(Seriously, like, does that help anyone? NO! Nobody needs help figuring out that the email is starting or ending, we can tell by the space on the page! Just write the normal stuff you need and let's get this over with for both of us, please.)

You need a chill pill, op. I start my email with "Dear" and end it with "Best" If you don't like it, too bad because it takes you 1 second to read it. Nothing wrong with starting with Hello. You sound very tightly wound. Take some meditation classes. It isn't good for your health.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you ok? You seem really upset about something totally innocuous. Also, I'm a Gen-X'er and sometimes start emails with Hi or Hello. Just to be friendly. Especially with prickly types.

+1 wtf OP?

-signed another gen xer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine’s Good Morning!!

The worst. Email is designed for asynchronous communication. Never assume anyone is reading your email at the time you write it. ATM, I save most of my email for 6-9 p.m., FBOW, and “Good Morning” comes off as clueless to the form of communication.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Damn. I am in fact a millennial and I generally do start all my emails with a greeting. I always write, "Hello," "Good morning," or "Good afternoon." And then in successive emails I don't write a greeting.

I eschew pleasantries though because I think they're meaningless. Unless this person actually is my friend, I don't care how they are or how their family is. I don't really like mixing work and my home life. I have 3 kids and people tend to treat me differently at work when they know this. My new employer keeps saying things like she knows I have issues with time or when crisis arise. I am keeping quiet, but I never, ever have family issues. I have a nanny, backup care, plus a husband. I get to work on time.

Gee golly Karen, sounds gosh awful. Maybe you can try using your words and just let everyone know you're privileged af, and maybe they'll stop trying to have all that annoying empathy for you? Just a suggestion.

A millennial with 3 kids? I didn't think we did that ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't agree with OP, but would just like to put in a plug for banning "Cheers," at the end. Thanks.

+1 Also, Kind Regards, and any inspirational quote

[Anonymous]

If you are emailing the same group of people several times a day, about different things, you still have some greeting like "hello" at the beginning of each one, because it's a different issue?

Just want to make sure that I am not being a monster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't agree with OP, but would just like to put in a plug for banning "Cheers," at the end. Thanks.

OMG YES!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Various twenty year olds at my workplace have started doing this and it's driving me crazy. Why are you wasting my time with stupid platitudes and pretending that saying "hello" to me makes this email collegial? Just send me the information you need to in this email and stop pretending you have created some new way of seeming friendly.

It's not rude to just start an email with what you want! JUST DO IT!! STOP WASTING MY TIME!!!

Signed,

Goodbye.

(Seriously, like, does that help anyone? NO! Nobody needs help figuring out that the email is starting or ending, we can tell by the space on the page! Just write the normal stuff you need and let's get this over with for both of us, please.)

Nap time!

[Anonymous]

Can you get my coworker to stop using:Team,
I hate it for some reason!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you get my coworker to stop using:Team,
I hate it for some reason!

The one I hate is "All." The people who use "All" as their salutation invariably use "Best" as their close. Like..."Best" what? You're the best lover? You're the best Yahtzee player? You're at your best in the morning? You're hoping that one day you'll be the best? I don't get it.

The All and Best people drive me nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are emailing the same group of people several times a day, about different things, you still have some greeting like "hello" at the beginning of each one, because it's a different issue?

Just want to make sure that I am not being a monster.

I think if it's a work day email trail, the initial email should be Good morning all or Hello. Once the replies start, you can drop pleasantries. If a bit of time goes by, you could write "Hi again" ...

DS 17 sends a ton of professional emails because he's an intern. Occasionally, he'll ask me to proof read. I noticed how incredibly polite and professional he is. Due to Covid, he's been ending emails with

Stay safe out there.

Best,

Is this appropriate? I didn't mention it to him and it's reflective of his 17 year old personality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re concerned about time wasted reading the word “hello,” but you actually took the time to write out that whole crazy post?

OP has been in quarantine too long ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are emailing the same group of people several times a day, about different things, you still have some greeting like "hello" at the beginning of each one, because it's a different issue?

Just want to make sure that I am not being a monster.

I think if it's a work day email trail, the initial email should be Good morning all or Hello. Once the replies start, you can drop pleasantries. If a bit of time goes by, you could write "Hi again" ...

DS 17 sends a ton of professional emails because he's an intern. Occasionally, he'll ask me to proof read. I noticed how incredibly polite and professional he is. Due to Covid, he's been ending emails with

Stay safe out there.

Best,

Is this appropriate? I didn't mention it to him and it's reflective of his 17 year old personality.

That sounds appropriate to me.

At work if I'm writing up a hand-off email to people I won't see face to face for weeks, I will include a sentence or two of pleasantries up front. If it's someone I talk to multiple times a day, I just cut straight to it. I tend to be a straight to business person so I try to be conscious of the individual person I'm talking to and take into consideration their own communication style.

[Anonymous]

I am a fountain of pleasantries. I need to work on that but "Hello..." is me reigning it in so be thankful!