Annoyance: Emails with no greetings/salutations

[Anonymous]

Just curious-- when you receive an email without a greeting/salutation in the intro (e.g. "Beth, The XYZ report needs to be sent to legal vs. Good morning Beth, The XYZ report needs to be sent to legal) does it bother you?

I find it extremely rude, yet a lot of people send emails this way. What gives with not placing a standard greeting in the intro with the person's name? It comes across as abrasive and abrupt. Assuming that you would provide the standard greeting on a phone call or when you walk into someone's office with a similar request, why is it ok to leave it off of an intro to an email?

[Anonymous]

No, it's sent to my email, I know it's for me

[Anonymous]

I find it extremely rude as well, especially if the person is asking me to do something.

[Anonymous]

Many business etiquette guides tell you that greetings mark you as a dinosaur who is reproducing the writing standards of a letter. It's not a letter. It's an email

[Anonymous]

I don't start an email with a greeting and hate it when people respond with one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many business etiquette guides tell you that greetings mark you as a dinosaur who is reproducing the writing standards of a letter. It's not a letter. It's an email

Emails have now taken the place of letters, which means that writing standards of letters do still apply.

Yes, OP, I agree with you. And I judge negatively people who do this.

[Anonymous]

Nope. I find that in my field, it's rare to get a greeting at all. You'd be in a tizzy if you worked here.

Most of the time, no name, no greeting whatsoever: "Can you send the XYZ report this morning? Thanks!" People are not trying to be rude, they are trying to be quick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. I find that in my field, it's rare to get a greeting at all. You'd be in a tizzy if you worked here.

Most of the time, no name, no greeting whatsoever: "Can you send the XYZ report this morning? Thanks!" People are not trying to be rude, they are trying to be quick.

+1 I think the "thanks" is more important than a greeting

[Anonymous]

You all are insane. You really need to have a good morning in order to be receptive to a work request? How old are you?

[Anonymous]

Email is not a letter.

[Anonymous]

I definitely use salutations externally. Internally with people senior to me, people I’m not often emailing, or if I’m asking something. But if I’ve emailed you several times in the past week or day—especially about the same project—and we work closely together, I might not use one.

I actually cringe at “good morning” or “have a great weekend,” because they presume I’m reading the email around the time you sent it, which is rarely the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't start an email with a greeting and hate it when people respond with one.

Same, it annoys me to no end when people treat email like a formal letter.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[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.

+1