There’s a person at work who I have to deal with for admin stuff. I don’t know her personally but have to send her mails and forms etc. Anyway, in the past most of the mails I received from this person have been abrupt and slightly rude. Others have felt the same way. Today I had to deal with her again and received a reply to a query. I expected it to be rude and as a result I misread what she had written. I fired off some blunt retorts only to feel really bad after realizing that her reply had been correct and I was at fault. Duh…after so many years, I still sometimes hit that send-receive button too quickly. Need to be cool, don’t prejudge people and leave emotions out of email. Lesson learnt…
dont worry dude, i always misread emails too. I dont usually send blyunt retorts via email. I usually storm over to their desks… hahahahahahaha
I get the same thing with instant messaging or text messaging. Maybe because its such a basic and impersonal way of communicating that you fill in the blancs yourself. All you have to go on is text. Anyways, they are always difficult to interpret.
I can guess who was her…
Maybe h…?
shhhhhh…
I use Outlook at work and have it set to only send my emails every few minutes, instead of instantly. It’s an absolute life saver and lets you kill any emails in your outbox should you have second thoughts. Of course, if you still want to send an email instantly just hit Send/Receive after you’ve sent it to the outbox.