Email Format and Etiquette, For those of you that have this task daily.

[levar burton]

What's your biggest pet peeve about the emails you receive? What's your example of a perfectly formatted business email? Post an example of what your work emails look like.

 

[eebs7eez]

Greeting,

Info.

Cheers,

Me

 

[jstunn197]

Read receipts.

 

[crcballer55]

Once had a supervisor send an email just to see how long it took to respond to it.

People who ask for the information that you just sent them in the previous email.

Not CCing everyone one a chain when you respond.

Keeping old messages on a chain after it gets past 5 emails. Then having to scroll for 5 minutes to find the message they just sent.

Employees CCing the whole company joking back and forth clogging everyone's inbox.

 

[coolgraymemo]

Hello/Good evening/morning x,

...

Sincerely,

- Name

 

[dirtylicious]

Originally Posted by crcballer55

Not CCing everyone one a chain when you respond.

this is annoying as all hell.
I put those people on there for a reason.

 

[bratz dos]

CCing someone of authority when its not necessary

I'm sure we can settle a small problem without involving my bosses boss.

 

[BranchLifestyle]

Originally Posted by Dirtylicious

Originally Posted by crcballer55

Not CCing everyone one a chain when you respond.

this is annoying as all hell.
I put those people on there for a reason.

Yup. I put people on the CC so that they can keep up with the conversation.

 when they cc-ed people ask me for status updates and I realized dude hasn't replied to all....

 

[icysoles718]

Originally Posted by BRaTZ DoS

CCing someone of authority when its not necessary

I'm sure we can settle a small problem without involving my bosses boss.

This always gets me so pissed. But when they try to hang me out to dry and they end up being wrong/putting incorrect info  
I just put them in their place replying to everyone in the original email 

 

[toast1985]

Grammatical errors. I'm not even a huge grammar buff, but I cannot stand when something isn't coherent.

 

[GTA 809]

My biggest pet peeve is no/vague subject line. I get about 50-75 pertinent emails a week so subject lines are key to me staying organized.

 

[juggy4805]

Originally Posted by Dirtylicious

Originally Posted by crcballer55

Not CCing everyone one a chain when you respond.

this is annoying as all hell.
I put those people on there for a reason.

This just happened.

Admin support requested everyone's shirt size. Email went out to maybe 80 people.

First person replies to everyone saying he wants an extra large.  

 

[faint dj3]

My name is Derry, it clearly states that in my emails.....some dummy emailed me back and wrote:
Hi Dimmery . *sigh

 

[josednk1068]

Originally Posted by juggy4805

Originally Posted by Dirtylicious

Originally Posted by crcballer55

Not CCing everyone one a chain when you respond.

this is annoying as all hell.
I put those people on there for a reason.

This just happened.

Admin support requested everyone's shirt size. Email went out to maybe 80 people.

First person replies to everyone saying he wants an extra large.  

I think that is the opposite of what they were talking about, in your case they should not have responded to everyone

  

 

[beh235]

Spelling, spelling, spelling. Is it too much to ask to know how to spell and know when to use certain spellings of certain words? My email is Greeting....body....Thank you + e-mail sig with my information.

 

[Thats My Word]

I work for a company that is headquartered in Bangalore and I interact with a lot of the employees that are there. A lot of times, they use those "indianisms."

Do the needful.
Do one thing.
Please revert back to me.
Kindly revert.
Yeah? Tell me.
Please confirm for the same.
______ only.
Take rest.
Take lunch.
etc.....

I'm not Indian, but I have found myself to be typing these up all the damn time!

I hope I don't carry these over to my next job.