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”

Just my opinion and being nice costs little and brings big rewards.

Mine too. Depends on who you work for but one of my work strands is for a charity. A lot of my communications are with either volunteers, giving loads of their time and skill, or members/ donors, who are giving their trust, their cash etc. - sometimes no more than an annual fee, sometimes much more. Thanking people for their support goes a long way, even if there are so many ways of writing it that it seems more and more generic. By contrast, when they write to object to something, I often get "No need to reply", "I hope you're not being misogynistic since I'm still getting the newsletter but you've dropped my wife's email" and plenty of other pseudo-amusing but ultimately snarky things that want to show me that they're the top dog in the relationship, too busy/rich/important/elite to be bothered with things that a lowly pen-pusher has to smile and shoulder.

That reply was exactly that - "Unless you know something I don't.." It's the sort of thing you laugh at if you identify yourself as wearing the superior shoes. To those too important for politeness either from or to someone paid less, I really hope that if you piss off the people who help you and who support you in such roles, that one day, they'll pull a blinder, or simply not lift a finger to dig you out where they have before, because believe me, that will be on the horizon somewhere.

Two colleagues have emailed me this morning and hoped I was well

I don't mind thank you emails so much but I do mind people saying thank you at the end of Teams meetings (say if it's a presentation about something). You get a million pings and it's so annoying.

Can we please take the thank you as read.

I’m so triggered by that unnecessary hyphen, I think they need reprimanding for that alone!

Personally, I tend not to precede my emails with any social niceties (unless I'm begging a favour), but am certainly not offended when I receive such an email, that reply is just a little curt and unnecessary. Perhaps he/she just had a bad day, or their hemerroids are playing up...

Why ????

Why are people replying on this thread ? 2 days & 19 pages & the OP hadn't been back at all. Not replied once. We have no idea who sent the fecking email or if the person then replied back.

Time for MN to block threads where the OP doesn't reply .

I really hope the person who wrote it is well

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