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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, no this does not annoy me. I work in biglaw. If that annoyed me I'd be insane.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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