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Dearest Cats Pause Readers:

What email habits of your co-workers piss you off?

Cheers!

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"Every man dies, not every man really lives" - William Wallace

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Not following the most basic rules of professionalism and at least attempting a rudimentary proofreading of the message that is to be sent.
 
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Blanket emails. If it doesn't pertain to me, I don't want it, especially if it's a chastising email. I'd say 75% of the emails I get fall under this category. If I need chastising, come to me, if it's not me, I don't want to hear about it.
 
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Emails to discuss a time to send an email to discuss something else that could have been discussed in the first email. I used to get these all the time at my old job:

"I am contacting you to see when would be a good time to contact you about (upcoming work gig) and get your input on what is needed to get it done."

Why can't you just send the damned info, and I'll reply when I check my email next?
 
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Forwards.
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Especially the ones that CLEARLY already had my address in the original email.

This is just a picky one, but I hate the ones that have [email protected] but then then also tag a few more addresses at the end juuuuuuuust in case the IT person (me) somehow failed to include the BOSSES in the most important distribution list in the building ....
 
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LMAO

Signed, hillary
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I have a habit that annoys me that I cannot stop.

I follow whatever I place in the subject line with ...

Oh, when people don't have anything in the subject line.
 
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If you send me an email with a little red exclamation point attached to it then I hope you end up in a ditch on the way home from work.
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That is high priority.

Back a few years back my mom was about to die. One day I was out and missed a voicemail on my phone. I checked and it was marked urgent. I knew it was about my mom from family. No, it was from the same kind of guy that uses that red exclamation point and it was minor.
 
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Read requests are more annoying than important status. At least with the little red exclamation I don't have to click an extra button to read the damned email.

And fah-q, I'm not responding with yes on a read request. You'll have to suffer through wondering if I got it or not.
 
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the nail at the foul line said:
That is high priority.

Back a few years back my mom was about to die. One day I was out and missed a voicemail on my phone. I checked and it was marked urgent. I knew it was about my mom from family. No, it was from the same kind of guy that uses that red exclamation point and it was minor.
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This would have enraged me with the burning fury of a thousand suns.
 
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And there will always be the person who "replies all" to say...."Please don't reply all to these emails".
 
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When you forward an email from opposing counsel to another attorney in your firm unloading on opposing counsel with both barrels. And then realize you hit reply instead of forward. :flushed::joy:
 
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TruBluCatFan said:
When you forward an email from opposing counsel to another attorney in your firm unloading on opposing counsel with both barrels. And then realize you hit reply instead of forward. :flushed::joy:
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Or even worse, you "forward" an email to a client with atty-client info, and then realize you hit "reply" instead, cc'ing the opposing party as well. :flushed::scream:

[Has only happened once or twice in my career, but had to call and beg to ask opposing counsel to delete. On one occasion, my own client was not amused, to say the least - what could I say? **** happens]
 
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At my last job, I always had this one ***** in corporate who thought it was necessary to CC the VP and every higher up any time an email was sent to me. If she couldn't find something or didn't receive something from me, she couldn't just effing call me or email me privately. Nope. She had to make sure every GD higher up got it the same time as I did so I would get BS follow ups all the time.

I asked her to please just contact me when she needs something and she straight up declined. She claimed it was protocol yet no other employee or higher up ever did that.
 
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YourPublicEnemy said:
At my last job, I always had this one ***** in corporate who thought it was necessary to CC the VP and every higher up any time an email was sent to me.
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I hate these ********. I have a good relationship with my boss. When people do this, I intentionally move them to the bottom of the to-do list. What could've been an instant response may or may not be answered in the next week or so.

I also really hate the person that I talk to on the phone about completing a task and then sends the "...per our discussion, please provide...". These paranoid ***** have to document every effort on their part, and they're usually useless when you need something from them.
 
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Mossip said:
I hate these ********. I have a good relationship with my boss. When people do this, I intentionally move them to the bottom of the to-do list. What could've been an instant response may or may not be answered in the next week or so.

I also really hate the person that I talk to on the phone about completing a task and then sends the "...per our discussion, please provide...". These paranoid ***** have to document every effort on their part, and they're usually useless when you need something from them.
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After years in management, it's amazing to see how paranoid and cautious everyone is. Everything is a "just in case I get sued, I'll cover this with HR."

On a related note, were you all able to keep anyone in HR for every long? I bet we had eight different people within two-three years.

We used to have this ******* regional who was such a ***** in person but when he emailed, he acted tough when CC'ing the VP (his boss). He'd tell people in person that something was no big deal and then he would email a verbal "just to show we talked about this."
 
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Tskware said:
Or even worse, you "forward" an email to a client with atty-client info, and then realize you hit "reply" instead, cc'ing the opposing party as well. :flushed::scream:

[Has only happened once or twice in my career, but had to call and beg to ask opposing counsel to delete. On one occasion, my own client was not amused, to say the least - what could I say? **** happens]
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Oh my. But yes indeed **** does happen. Hope you had a good opposing counsel.
 
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My old manager wanted a read receipt for every email, I finally just changed the settings so it was automatic.

Also don't like it when someone just sends me a thanks or thank you, I get enough emails in a day and just delete them.
 
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When I'm CC'd on things that have nothing to do with me except that I have an email that ends in the company name like everyone else. It's like I have his email....let me CC him too to show how "important" this is, even though he is HR and this has nothing to do with HR.

The stupid people I work with make me very un HR like with my personality. I hate those pricks and biatches and wish I had stuck with accounting and made bank and could just crunch numbers all day instead of dealing with people.
 
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We used to have this one d-bag that was the worst suck up ever. He'd CC everyone else on compliments to the boss or with how well he had done. One time he hit reply all to the president/owner of the company, VP and everything to tell everyone it was his birthday.
 
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Not an annoying habit, but a funny email story:

Back in the late 90s, an HR woman at the company I worked for tried to send an email containing a spreadsheet with the salaries of ALL employees (a thousand or so people) to a coworker. But somehow she sent it to the distribution list for all employees. Once the mistake was realized, they had IT go around to each and every employee's computer to make sure the file was deleted. But the damage was done - several people copied it onto floppy disks as soon as they saw what it was.
 
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