emails you get from people at work.

If its client/snr management then formal and double checked. Between workers less so. Everyone uses relatively good English, but by virtue of workloads there isnt time for waffling
 
My previous manager would regularly forward emails asking for me to cascade the information on to my team but, would regularly exclude the forwarded message. Another regular email would be:

Subject: Confirm you have read this and disseminate

(Blank msg body)

Kind Regards,
(Silly Person)
 
actually that is a sensible approach by the manager for some things

ignoring your manager's e-mails probably isn't a good approach if he's got control of your pay rise/bonus

Nothing like that, don't ignore them I do read them but then will talk to them about it to try and get them to have a conversation, the manager says bugger all at all for the whole day.

You might get a "Morning" when they come in and that is it!
 
I received an email yesterday from the new guy who started on Monday. He told me to resend my last email in a different conversation because I had sent it in what he considered to be the wrong one.

Twice I started to formulate a reply but both were deleted on account of their sharp edges. I just ignored it in the end.
 
People send me emails typed in 16 point, pink comic sans. It should be an instant disciplinary.

The worst thing is they do the same thing in emails to external partners, we're a local authority not a bloody clown college!
 
My emails mostly consist of company wide "There are cakes on my desk" every other day, unfortunately I work on the factory floor and am therefore not allowed to mingle in the offices as I am lowly scum :D

So... cake filter for the feels
 
I don't really get many that are all that bad. Often get emails with randomly capitalised words and minimal punctuation though.

One that did amuse me though is when one of the guys on our support team emailed a customer with a solution for a problem they were having and intended to end the email with "this should solve your issue" except he somehow completely rearranged the letters on the word 'this' to spell something that shouldn't have gone to a customer ;) No idea how he managed it but at least he had the right letters, I guess.
 
I get in the region of 300-400 emails a day over my local email and client email accounts. About 150-200 get filtered off into different folders for a quick review(automated emails from a specific system), around 50 I actually need to deal with, and the rest promptly get deleted.

Me and my colleague have 5 supervisors under us who regularly email externally - probably about 100 times a day between them and some of the spelling mistakes in their emails are shocking! 4 out of 5 are British native as well.

The remainder 40 people we have generally have an email limit of "pub tonight?"/"there are chocolates on my desk"/"anyone got some paracetamol?"

Edit: Its more in the region of 500-600 overall as I forgot about my other teams shared mailbox!! I generally don't go near it unless i am asked to look at something.
 
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I obviously send far too many emails round the office.

People email me back constantly asking dumb questions, or they don't respond at all and only do so if I take their access to something away.

I have found out (after sending out one email 7 times and one slightly rageful email to a Director) that the reason for the lack of/dumb responses is because they have set up rules.

Rude!

At the end of the day they lose out/look stupid.

BB x
 
My previous manager would regularly forward emails asking for me to cascade the information on to my team but, would regularly exclude the forwarded message. Another regular email would be:

Subject: Confirm you have read this and disseminate

(Blank msg body)

Kind Regards,
(Silly Person)
"Cascade" ? ... "Disseminate" ?

We've got a live one here folks, he's one of them! *grabs pitchfork*
 
I constantly get emails where people are following up on a Helpdesk request they sent about a week ago. They all seem angry that we've had their ticket for a week and made no progress on it; none of them seem to comprehend that for us to do anything they need to reply to our emails asking for more information.

We also get a few silly questions on the daily:

"Is there a problem with Excel?" - Yes, that would be the 250Mb Excel file you're trying to do stuff in; that would be the problem.

"My password doesn't work" - Stop trying to log into someone else's account

We also have various Sales programs that will lock your account (they use separate logins and not Windows Authentication) if you don't log out of the program at the end of the day as it will block updates being done. Everyone that calls us to ask to be unlocked always feels the need to lie to us and tell us that they did log out properly the previous night and it must just be the computer system being faulty that caused the issue.

Yeah... Right. We believe you.
 
Excellent! Can i play?

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I'm curious - wtf does that actually mean? It's in English yet it's not...
 
I'm curious - wtf does that actually mean? It's in English yet it's not...

Let me revert at soonest...

JCR is probably an internal company phrase for something. PO, especially in relation to budgets, might be a Purchase Order which is needed to go ahead and pay someone for something. So at a pure guess they were checking their financial position on a project as they were about to setup a "JCR" (whatever that is) in readiness for buying something. But they found a discrepency so decided to get it looked at further before proceeding.
 
What's wrong with disseminate!? That's exactly what the word means/is meant for!
It's just one of those words that sounds more complicated than it means. It's not quite right to mean simply telling your team something!

"to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse"

I had a good one yesterday, this chap was CC'd on an email chain where I was setting someone up on one of our systems to send some media through to us, and decided to chip in his thoughts on the 'delay'. No idea who he is but he obviously missed the part where I actually work for (company2) and was trying to help him out..

I NEED THE FILM TO BE SENT NOW TO (company1) OR THIS WILL DELAY DELIVERY OF THE FILM TO (company2).
Yawn :o
 
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