Robert KingettWho the fuck taught people how to pen business emails? Holy Christ on a cracker! Absolutely nothing creams my corn more than having to actively translate what these professional suits are typing to me. I just received an email that was 5 paragraphs that essentially boiled down to, hey, I really liked your report you sent last Monday. Can we schedule a Zoom call tomorrow? Yes or no? I am so tired of professional communications. I am frankly exhausted with having to translate professional sludge. Why in the healthiest of hell is it OK, even desirable, that our society likes this kind of mind nummingcommunication? Everybody calls it professional but I just call it a gigantic fucking headache. And who the hell came up with professionalism anyhow? I’m really starting to hate the concept of professionalism and professional writing styles. No wonder everyone has meetings. No one can write. No one can string together a competent business sentence without 90,000 corporate qualifiers. You can have perfect grammar and perfect spelling and in fact be the worst writer. Can we change what it means to write professionally? Because this is a level of hell that I never noticed prior to getting away from corporate offices. #Writing #Business
Rachel@WeirdWriter A while back I got an answer from a senior leader -type at work, and after careful analysis it all boiled down to:
— a new policy is on the way
— she (the person telling us) is excited about the new policy
— they took away the jobs of some people at the email-sender’s department
No information at all on when the policy might be ready, what it might contain, or what the job losses have to do with anything.
@WeirdWriter I challenged the sender, showing them my analysis, and asking if I’d missed anything. I wasn’t even sure whether she knew that she’d said almost nothing.