Annoyance: Emails with no greetings/salutations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, no this does not annoy me. I work in biglaw. If that annoyed me I'd be insane.

I was amazed at the difference in how people wrote emails when I moved from biglaw to non-profit. It definitely took me awhile to get used to how "nice" people were in e-mails--in biglaw I was lucky to get three words (or a response at all). It's definitely an industry/culture thing in my experience, not an age thing.

I moved from biglaw to in-house and also noticed a huge difference. Not only are people generally nicer and more relaxed, but we all take more time to make sure we strike the right tone in emails. If you can't get the tone right, pick up the phone and call.

One of my least favorite people that I worked with in biglaw, and a horrible manager, would start typing her jumbled thoughts in the subject line and just continue her train of thought into the body of an email. No punctuation, words not properly spelled out (cld instead of could), and no formatting. Just a wall of text garbage. Then she would have an attitude when people told her they didn't understand WTF she wanted. And of course there was never a greeting or thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Initial email, I include greeting. But the back and forth on a topic? No greeting. It’s a conversation.

This is fine. Similar to saying hello or good morning the first time you see a person for the day, but not repeatedly throughout the day.

This.

Initial email without a greeting is incredibly rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, no this does not annoy me. I work in biglaw. If that annoyed me I'd be insane.

I was amazed at the difference in how people wrote emails when I moved from biglaw to non-profit. It definitely took me awhile to get used to how "nice" people were in e-mails--in biglaw I was lucky to get three words (or a response at all). It's definitely an industry/culture thing in my experience, not an age thing.

I moved from biglaw to in-house and also noticed a huge difference. Not only are people generally nicer and more relaxed, but we all take more time to make sure we strike the right tone in emails. If you can't get the tone right, pick up the phone and call.

One of my least favorite people that I worked with in biglaw, and a horrible manager, would start typing her jumbled thoughts in the subject line and just continue her train of thought into the body of an email. No punctuation, words not properly spelled out (cld instead of could), and no formatting. Just a wall of text garbage. Then she would have an attitude when people told her they didn't understand WTF she wanted. And of course there was never a greeting or thank you.

I work for a big 4 firm and our culture definitely includes a salutation.

[Anonymous]

I give zero shits about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I give zero shits about this.

Glad to know some don't care if I haven't said Good Morning.

For the ones that care - is just Hello ok? Hello Mark, please can you send...

[Anonymous]

I go with Hi, [name] in an effort to satisfy the people who like things concise and to the point and the people who want to be greeted.

[Anonymous]

I’m in my 30s and appreciate a greeting! It is polite.

[Anonymous]

"Extremely" rude? Op, you look hard for things to dislike. It's no way to live life. Get help.

A more appropriate sentiment is, you have a preference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I give zero shits about this.

You probably also have zero social skills in real life too.

[Anonymous]

I prefer a salutation, my name or something generic like Good Morning! What I hate is "Hey, there!" or "Hi, All". Yuck.

[Anonymous]

I am a millennial and start 95% of my emails with "Bob,". I get to the point and use as few words as possible. I do not care if you are having a good morning or if you had a great weekend.

[Anonymous]

About 75% of my emails are critical feedback, so I add as much sugar as I can to keep the recipients from feeling alienated.

[Anonymous]

I’m a pretty high level fed who works with the public. I have to write Ms./Mr. and use last names when addressing people outside of the government. Internally, I only write a first name and no greeting. Jane, send me the memo. Thanks!

I don’t like meaningless greetings like how are you? Or even hi! That one just sounds like what a female intern writes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a pretty high level fed who works with the public. I have to write Ms./Mr. and use last names when addressing people outside of the government. Internally, I only write a first name and no greeting. Jane, send me the memo. Thanks!

I don’t like meaningless greetings like how are you? Or even hi! That one just sounds like what a female intern writes.

This.

[Anonymous]

Dear OP,

We're so sorry!

Everyone