Work emails with no greeting / name just hi,

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I the emailed from one senior manager that is sent to either one with people cc’d or a
few people and they start “Hi,”

I actually find this really disrespectful and should at least have a persons name in the greeting if you are initiating contact. I mean its not so bad if it’s a reply in a chain with lots of back and forth

But
”Hi,
Can you provide evidence for the following KPIs for the new audit in broomsticks. This is urgent as it up for review. Please anonymise the information.

I find it so rude I am inclined not to reply

is it just me? Am I over reacting. I’ve always found it rude just this one has come to the surface .

This reminds me of that other recent thread where the op was trying to justify her egregious misuse of "reply all", creating hundreds of emails an hour to be sent.

Some co-workers are just awful.

Thankfully my current workplace is generally really good at this sort of thing.

Not rude at all, they probably BCC’d others into it for the same information.

YABU

'Hi' is perfectly fine and normal and polite.

Wait till you have to start emailing some American in a work context. They don't fanny about with 'hi' or 'hope this email finds you well'. They just say 'NO. That will not work'

If it’s someone you know then you are being precious.

Could be worse and "oi'

I’d rather just hi instead of hi followed with my name spelled incorrectly which happens daily.

If you have time to get annoyed about this, you need more work to do.

Over reacting.

What’s wrong with Hi? I don’t get your issue

I dislike it too and think it’s rude and lazy, but it’s common place at the company I work for.

My director will pull people up on this if they do it. She really hates it. I've seen her reply to emails from one of my team correcting her on it. But I also saw her get an email from an external supplier which opened with 'hi' and she replied to the sender with an answer to the email and a 'by the way...' which told them it was rude to send emails without people's name in the greeting no was pretty surprised she'd raise it with an external who she had no prior relationship with!

Hi,
How do you get through life getting worked up over nothing?
Best,
Ipse.

I replied 'hi' to an email last week (in a reply not the initial email) to big boss cc'ing line manager and felt bad afterwards... reassuring to know i had nothing to worry about.

I usually say hi (name) or hi both or hi all depending on whether 1, 2 or more recipients.

Hi,

You are being ridiculous.

Kind regards

Wow. I start my emails with just hi all the time. It had never even occurred to me that someone would be bothered about this. I don't care at all receiving just a hi. Prefer it to Hi Name, to be honest. Feel like it sounds friendlier, like they don't need to use my name cos we're mates already.

I find it jarring when emails start with just my name (no dear or hello or hi or anything. Just the name). Is that considered better or worse than hi but no name?! I mean, I don't find it jarring enough to actually get annoyed or think differently about the sender. But it just gives me whatever the professional equivalent of the ick is.

And at the end of emails... Mine always end with 'Thanks,
My Name'

I find 'kind regards' fine, and 'regards' alone as secretly signifying pure cold rage. There is a secret section of hell reserved for people who write 'BW' because they apparently give me their best wishes but can't even be arsed typing the bloody words. And 'Best' people can fuck off too. Best what?

Your being precious and ridiculous they’ve sent it to your email address of course it for you

I've had e-mails to my address that weren't meant for me. I've also been cc'd in messages that were addressed to the wrong person - two people in the organisation with similar names.

How hard is it to say Hi Sue, could you.....?

Thinking back - internal emails are the equivalent of memos. Very many people would only complete the from and to info at the top of the memo and go straight to the bones of the request in the body.

That said, the convention is to put Hi All or Hi X or even Hi X and team. I wouldn't get excited about it.

Agree with this. My manager used to say “hiya” on an email .. Never thought it sounded right.

A complete non issue. I don't give a shit how somebody starts or ends an email as long as they get to the point.

My organisation is the opposite and every email is all ‘Hi Weirdy, hope you’re keeping well and that you’ve had a great weekend etc’ or the cringe that is ‘have a great weekend when you get there’. Give me straight to the point any day.

Wooh, you would not like my emails. I quite often just reply Yes or No

Hi,
How do you get through life getting worked up over nothing?
Best,
Ipse.

So you can put your own name, but can't be bothered to type the name of the person you're addressing? Why include your name, if names are so unimportant?

I do it sometimes I think. I go with Hello! which might be worse sorry.

OP- Please provide what you would consider suitable wording???

You might what to actually read your own first line and let us know what you meant to say, before pointing fingers at others:

I the emailed from one senior manager that is sent to either one with people cc’d or a
few people and they start “Hi,”

Emails aren't Charles Dickens novels.

Forsooth Madam xx,

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