To think "X" on work emails are unnecessary ?

[greenlass]

Email received today from a lady asking our company for sponsorship...

Please can your company send us lots of £££££
Signed,
Miss Sponsorship
X


I think it's unprofessional & makes her look like a fanny?

Random kisses on the end of texts are bad enough but an email from a business to another business from a lady I've never met & never will?

You wouldn't know me if you walked past me in the street, certainly wouldn't kiss me so why is it appropriate on a work email??

Makes me want to direct her mail right into the junk folder...

Am I just grumpy & BU?

[PastaPrincess]

I've never received an X on a work email (and only sent one accidentally..) I'd find that inappropriate.

[Oysterbabe]

Maybe she did it by mistake? DH sent a kiss on the end of a text to one of his mates the other day without thinking. Lots of pisstaking ensued.

[greenlass]

Good thinking,
I'm going to assume it was a mistake ...
This time !!

[Pagwatch]

If she sent me an unsolicited email asking for sponsorship I would already imagine she was a twat before she added the xx

[phillipp]

I was once helping a manager fix his PC. The it department was chatting to us via live chat on the screen talking us through it.

When we had finished I typed 'thank you for your help X' and pressed send. I was mortified. It was a total accident. The manager was howling, it was his account we were on (so the kiss came technical came from him) so at least he found it funny.

[phillipp]

If she sent me an unsolicited email asking for sponsorship I would already imagine she was a twat before she added the xx

there is also this. I run a business and get about 7 of these a day.

[greenlass]

It wasn't unsolicited as such !
A small local group who we have sponsored in the past.
Maybe the fact my boss agreed to give her ££££ justified the kiss in her mind...

[Pagwatch]

If it wasn't unsolicited and she is asking for a charity sponsorship maybe she is trying to make it more personal?

It is an email outside standard business communication and, like Phillip, I get these daily so maybe she is trying to make her request personal and not generic?

[myownprivateidaho]

I think it's fine. People have different personal styles.

[myownprivateidaho]

Also it clearly wasn't a "work email".

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

I think it's totally unprofessional. An accident is one thing, but I would never purposely do that.

[CafeCremeMerci]

I can understand it when people do it at the end of a text - by accident. I've done it, felt like a right plonker! Plumber thought it was very funny, thank fully.

But an email? An email asking for funding? Surely you're actually putting some thought & effort into what you are writing?!

[greenlass]

"clearly not a work email"

Why would that be??

It certainly wasn't personal.

An email from one organisation to another = a work email.

[MrsJoeyMaynard]

It's unprofessional and inappropriate unless it's a personal e-mail / text.

But I can see how it might be done by accident if most of her e-mails are to friends.

[Pagwatch]

When we donated to a local group one of the women real life kissed me.


I didn't mind. They were really grateful and it's a great organisation.

[myownprivateidaho]

Well, I guess your company received it in the course of work, but presumably she wasn't sending it as part of her job.

[mrsfuzzy]

straight in the spam, if you wouldn't kiss any of your co workers in rl why do it on an email ?

[blueshoes]

OP is overthinking this.

[wowowowow]

Some people I work with start their business emails "Dear ....." One of these people (more senior than me) told me that because I just used their first name rather than "Dear" it made me look a bit abrupt.

I still don't use "Dear". It's in the same category as xxxxx

[OnionKnight]

I get emails from members of the public every day, it's a little bit weird when they put kisses in the email.

[RealityCheque]

Personally, I think the term "makes her look like a fanny" is far more embarrassing than a X at the end of an email!

Look like a fanny? A FANNY? Are you actually old enough for 'work emails'?

[redshoeblueshoe]

blueshoes I must disagree
My supervisor (who I couldn't stand) used to put xx on all her memo's, I thought it was very unprofessional.

[greenlass]

I'm not really over thinking.
It's not something I would ever do myself & wondered if I'm just a cold fish & stingy with love or if it really is a bit forward & silly to add pointless kisses to emails.

Yes - I am more than old enough thanks!

[Pagwatch]

I'm still not sure it's an office to office email. It's a charity request. She wasn't placing an order for 20 ballcocks.

Can you sponsor us or donate to our charity X

Is much less dreadful than

May I confirm my order for 20 ballcocks X

In my head anyway.

[greenlass]

True!
Maybe it's just me & I need to move with the times.

I don't put kisses on texts either unless I would actually kiss the person in real life.