How personal are you in business email?
i dont know how much kind and polite i should be and how much formal i should be lol. where's the balance? how do you communicate when you write emails for work?
31-35, F
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ProdigalSummer · F
All my work emails go to my team and my direct supervisors. We all work closely together and know each other fairly well.
I keep the tone professional but I’m not afraid to let personality shine through. If I were emailing clients or others in the company that I don’t know, I tone down the familiarity and become strictly professional.
I keep the tone professional but I’m not afraid to let personality shine through. If I were emailing clients or others in the company that I don’t know, I tone down the familiarity and become strictly professional.
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@ProdigalSummer that sounds like a perfect way :-) just hard to practice as an action for me ahaha lol. since im the only person who's in charge with english communications.. and im not a native english speaker, so im just trying to pick up the business tone vocabs and expressions from the emails I recieve lol..
Business emails are exactly that. Business. Polite, yes. Emotions have no place in business. From a clerk to the CEO, all correspondence should only have a business tone, even if you personally know the other person on the receiving end. And business is never personal.
VioletDreams · 36-40, F
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VioletDreams · 36-40, F
@jellyfishman over 10 years in the industry babe 😉
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
VioletDreams · 36-40, F
@jellyfishman lol i unfortunately haven't graduated to a managerial or supervisor role but hopefully in time
nonsensiclesnail · F
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@nonsensiclesnail eh? do some people use a different name for business? lol
nonsensiclesnail · F
@jellyfishman Probably.
but all of my personal emails are never signed with my name. I'm odd that way I suppose.
but all of my personal emails are never signed with my name. I'm odd that way I suppose.
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@nonsensiclesnail Ohhhh I see.. I dont really use emails for personal communication.. I use messenger apps or texts 99% so i never thought about it!
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@ozgirl512 yessss lol I try not to make any joke for that matter.. but sometimes im really tempted to do that heehee
ozgirl512 · 26-30, F
@jellyfishman you're not alone there lol.. Sometimes they leave themselves wide open lol... Best to resist though ;)
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Has to be professional in my line as sometimes you can get asked for them in court.
Same with any other mode of recorded data.
Some of my colleagues often forget this and it lands them in trouble if a Barrister or Solicitor wants to make capital of it.
Same with any other mode of recorded data.
Some of my colleagues often forget this and it lands them in trouble if a Barrister or Solicitor wants to make capital of it.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@jellyfishman And in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the fact that there are STILL some folk awaiting an apology from top brass at Facebook, i would advise EVERYBODY, be very careful the details you share since you don't kow who has access to your page or your conversations or your friends list.......
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@Picklebobble2 @_@ i better keep away from facebook, i guess!
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@jellyfishman Ideal opportunity you'd have thought for some enterprising person to set up an alternative.
Mondayschild · F
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@Mondayschild i was gonna stay that way but my boss wants me to be friendly and talk like a friend lol ahaha so i been trying to overly kind and friendly on emails, but at the same time i was worrying that might look too out of ordinary...
Mondayschild · F
@jellyfishman if I have never talked to that person I would feel weird doing that😳
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@Mondayschild yess exactly.. i didnt know what to say at first coz i had this pressure to be fake friendly ahahaha