What do you make of this email response

[Yikitty]

Email sent by newish member of staff to senior staff member - 4 others cc’d in

Reasonable run of the mill email - enquiring about confirming a date. Email first line is “I hope you are well”

response:

”You don’t need to ask me if I am well every-time you email me unless you know something I don’t. Yes”

Fucking Hell that's rude.

Although I must admit that's an opening gambit I use myself quite often (I go for the "Dear Xxxx, I trust my email finds you well" for clients / very senior colleagues and the more informal "Hi Xxxxx, hope all is well with you / hope you had a nice weekend / hope you are enjoying the weather for other colleagues)

Assume you're the newish staff member @Yikitty that was pretty harsh. Try not to take it to heart but yeah that was quite scathing!

That they're an awkward bugger.
Would reply 'I didn't mean to cause irritation with my message, was intending only to write in a polite and friendly tone, before asking about a date for XX'.

Then ask about company general comms from a manager and see whether this is out of line (or if niceties are better dispensed with).

How fucking rude, especially to a new member of staff. Has the sender asked other colleagues about it?

Rude!

I loathe with a passion emails that start with “I hope you are well.” But I wouldn’t send a snarky reply, although I might have a quiet word.

This is obviously a completely inappropriate response.

Curious- were the others copied into the reply too ?

Genuine question, what do you hate about it?

Are there any niceties / pleasantries you do like?

Are you quite senior?

How appallingly rude! This was a senior manager who wrote this? For all the others to see as well, so clearly did not think it was wrong. Maybe even thought it made them look funny. To try and embarrass the new team member?!
If this person acts like that over email how do they act behind closed doors?
Tell the new person to ignore the comment and that everyone can see how rude it was. Honestly if they do stuff like this all the time then they need disciplining.

That's very rude. I would reply with something like 'duly noted.' to show that you have understood but think politely they are a rude bastard.

Probs put hope you are ill next time , that’ll stick it up the rude devil

But don’t acknowledge or back track

That is seriously so rude and uncalled for. I would copy everyone in and apologise in a passive aggressive manner that makes her look like the dick she is.

"Good morning X,

I sincerely apologise that my enquiring if you were well offended you and caused you such upset. My intention was to be polite. I will make a note not to do that again.

Regards,

Y"

Then every email after that would be cold, hard and clinical.

Im not a huge fan, just get to the point . Anyone who has to write formally, I hope you are well, doesn’t give two hoots how I am, they just want an answer to a question.

However, I would never have replied like that. Just answered the question without acknowledging the statement.

@Yikitty - were the other people also copied into the reply?

Why?

It really took off in covid. V annoying

I think that's pretty hilarious. I can imagine a couple of the autistic students I teach saying something like that 😂 I love their honesty

Did you reply to the cunt?

Bloody hell!

If they are junior to you, I would have request a word with them - not on email - and tell them they do not respond to you, colleagues or clients in that way.

Hope you are well, hope you had a nice weekend etc are standard business speak when you don't correspond that often. It's not inappropriate, they will see it frequently, along with best wishes, kind regards etc, and they need to behave professionally.

That would be enough to mark their card with me - sheesh, I'm livid on your behalf 😡😂

I dislike email openers like that as well - mainly because I never use them (trained in a very formal environment and am reasonably to the point anyway).

But I would never respond like that! I just tend to ignore and answer the query directly, but not rudely.

What is your line of work? Do you send / recieve lots of emails?

I assume you're one of those people who send blunt emails to their junior staff?

We have a newish member of staff who starts every single email with I hope you are well, or I hope today finds you well, and so on. It's really annoying and we work in a very fast paced environment, that really isn't as formal as that (outside of the courtroom) he's been told numerous times the formality is unnecessary and not really in keeping with the tone of the workplace. I can see someone snapping and responding like this at some point

I was taught it during Office Studies in the 80s!!!

it's a very common form of polite conversation.

Am genuinely bemused that some people feel so strongly about something so inoffensive. It's just a normal greeting! I couldn't muster up the energy to "loathe" something like this.

Rude, but a little bit funny. I'm sure the recipient will survive.