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Weird … I was told the exact same thing by my boss.
So I stopped using emojis, and then she told me that my messages were “passive-aggressive” or “rude”
And I told her that’s why people use emojis, to add the nuance that is missing because we aren’t communicating face-to-face 🤷♀️
I worked with someone once who would write the most condescending chat messages and finish them off with a smiley face. I think he truly didn't understand that the smiley made it worse. Regardless of the lack of social awareness, his superiority complex was annoying.
lol I would want to punch that person, too
In this case, her expectation was that she receive whole paragraphs (with positivity if possible) for comments on her slide deck, rather than a short comment with my suggestion to make stuff better.
She’s the dumbass who asked a technical editor to review her stuff 🤷♀️ 😀 😀
(and before anyone points out my grammatical/punctuation errors above: it’s early and idgaf)
It sounds like you just don't understand how brilliant you coworker was. You should probably look into effective communication methods and/or go back to school. Maybe if you weren't so closed minded, you could learn something. 🙂
/s in case it wasn't obvious
Without the smiley face I'm annoyed enough... with it just gives me an image I want to punch 🫠
This is why I hate people. You never know when you'll meet one of these dumb dumbs that think life is a competition to seem the most adult. They're the idiots that need to have prefaces saying shit like "the video game industry is actually bigger than the music and movie industry combined" when reading financial times. Get stuffed.
Can you explain a bit more about the preface thing? That seems fine. Are you saying they assume an article is less relevant because they don't think videogames is a large industry? (This also seems fine to me, the point of news is to educate readers)
Their so into being the most adult version of themselves they have to have gaming explained to them like they don't already know. I am actually referencing another thing I saw earlier this week on lemmy, where the shared article literally did that, tried to preface an explanation of just how big the gaming industry is, as if the readers, people with money that speculate on stocks etc. don't already know that there's gold in them thar gaming hills.
But you could be right, gaming has only been big for like 30-40 years since consoles, and in particular playstation blew up, maybe there's still 60+ year olds that don't know wtf is going on in the world.
My workplace is somewhat stuffy but I've still never seen anyone take issue with a smiley or similar emoji in an email. Tone is hard to assess over text, a simple :) goes a long way sometimes.
I'm afraid I have to give you your notice, as your position is no longer a priority for the company 😢
Well thanks for wasting the last 3 years of my career, you feckless ghouls!!! 😜❤️
Dear Karen,
you are the dumbest bitch I’ve ever had to work with and I hope you die a gruesome death.
:)
There's a woman I haven't met in person but I have to send emails to about once a month to ask for something only her group can do
One time I did something like "could you help us get xxx report from your system by CoB? 😅 " and she replied that emojis could have a hidden meaning and are not professional and I should not use them in emails
Next time after she helped me I went to the greetings system we use and send her a public card for gratitute or team work with some gif of cute cats hugging. I think everyone had a similar experience with her because a lot of people liked the post and then they started doing the same
The worst part is that we have the option to give away points in the system that can be redeemed for gift cards but I've never seen anyone give her points, only cute gifs
I'm suddenly finding myself feeling very deprived of cute gifs and envious of this women. Though random monetary rewards would be nice too
Same! Especially for client management and working with a broader internal team (as long as you ensure that’s an acceptable level of casualness in comms) it’s incredibly useful to give context for the tone of a message that could without it be interpreted either positively or negatively.
For example: Especially for client management and working with a broader internal team (as long as you ensure that’s an acceptable level of casualness in comms) it’s incredibly useful to give context for the tone of a message that could without it be interpreted either positively or negatively. :)
It didn’t drastically change the content of the message, but it can help someone who’s potentially having a bad day and subconsciously perceiving things negatively to instead see the positive context of the information relayed in what’s on its own a largely neutral message (with neutral messages I find people’s current positive or negative moods tend to have them perceive the message in a manner reflective of that current emotional state).
In case you didn't know, correcting someone's syntax is considered unprofessional. 🍆👊
I had someone say I used too many exclamation points in a specific email and it wasn't professional. It was 2 or 3, which admittedly was high for me, but seemed warranted and mirrored the way the client was writing.
You probably wouldn't as you need money to live and can't afford to risk your job but responding with, "Acknowledged!!!!!!!!!!!" would have, likewise, been warranted.
I have a limit I can tolerate, one emoji every other sentence.
I don't use them in emails myself, but react emojis to internal work messages are fairly commonplace. A 👍 next to a message is often just a good way to know someone has confirmed reading something rather than needing to write "okay" which is ambiguous (what are you saying okay to?) and takes up space.
But I use a different range of emojis with different people when I do use them, to taste. With colleagues it's one of 😁😆😅😕😯❤️👍👆, with friends it's probably one of 🤣🤩😍🤔💀🧐😭🤯🥴😔😏😗💨 or 👀.
There was a legal case in Eastern Canada a short while ago that ruled "👍" is legally binding as an affirmative in terms of a verbal contract.
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