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[quote=Anonymous]A couple of years ago I (thought I) noticed a (new) trend of youngish people at work starting all their emails with "Hello" and honestly it really annoyed me.  I even posted a question about it here and everyone roundly told me I was wrong and I should get over myself.  But getting 20 emails a day from the same people starting with "Hello."  made me feel I was working with AI chatbots fwiw.

That said, when I'm asking someone for something or have received something good from someone, I always have "Thanks!" from me once or twice in the emails, and I probably overuse exclamation marks generally.

I have even started (when I remember) beginning my emails with "Hello" when it's my first email to the person of the day.  I can't promise I keep it up by email #4 to that same person, though.

Pet peeve of mine is people ending their emails with "Best, [name]."  No, thanks.  I have seen that used too many times when what the person really means is "FU" so that's how it comes across to me now, oh well.[/quote]

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