Email etiquette

[TNGL]

I think my manager read a book on business writing or similar recently because he's gone from structuring his emails like:

Hi X,

Can you please run me through y at some point?

Kind regards,

Name

To:

"X,

Can you run me through Y?

Thanks,

N"

This has been a change that has occurred overnight and has persisted. He has either read the aforementioned book or an awful article on Business Insider. The emails never consist of a salutation and never consist of a please, only a thank you, as if you have already accepted what he is asking.

The whole 'Name' becoming 'N' thing is real by the way. He no longer signs his emails off with his own name unless emailing externally.

Does anybody else find this style of writing an email borderline rude?

It isn't just a case of him only emailing his subordinates like this. He emails his manager, his manager's manager and most external contacts like it too (but with a proper signature).

 

[TNGL]

I am more understanding of a lack of a salutation than a lack of a 'please'. Imo if your boss is asking you to do something, whether it has a please or not, you are going to do it; the please just makes the instruction slightly more pleasant.

Like I say, this extends beyond his subordinates and he emails his superiors in the same way. I find this surprising because his manager always says please in his emails.

He's a nice guy and we get on well and so it's nothing personal, just an observation.

 

[TNGL]

TNGL,

No, you're being overly sensitive.

L

Pls fix, thx.