Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Hey Is For Horses

Email thread!

To: Mike@supervisor
From: Buddy
cc: Tom
Subject: Hey


Hey,
I have a control alert on one of my portfolios. Could you check this out when you get a minute. Thanks



Mike's reply:


To: Buddy
From: Mike@supervisor
cc: Tom
Subject: Hey


This is all set now.
Also- I'm more likely to notice and respond to e-mails that don't have subject "Hey" FYI.

Thanks,
Mike





-t

3 comments:

Donny said...

Give Buddy a break. It's easy to make mistakes like that at your first job. That's why New Hires are so much fun.

e$ said...

Yeah, give poor Buddy a break. I mean, it takes a LOT to learn email etiquette, you know? like and how people scan subject lines for things that are... um, important and stuff? ooh, and like, punctuation. that's hard too. it's like almost as hard as signing your NAME at the end of the message. I mean, WOAH.

Tom said...

Yes! Exactly! No name! No phone number!

and he's cc-ing me on every single one of his emails!

Gah!
-t