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 .

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

Quite difficult, if the manager is sending the same e-mail to several people that she needs replies from.

Overreacting. Massively.
Not rude at all.

How do you manage in the modern workplace? Are you really going to refuse to reply because someone just said hi and didn’t add your name? Incredible.

And what’s even more irritating is when people do that on Teams & press return after every line so it comes up as multiple messages.

Hi Empress

How are you?

Hope you’re doing well

Please can you….

How difficult is it to send ‘Hi Empress, how are you? Please can you…’ & then I’m not already irritated by the time they get round to the request.

Could be best regards OR best wishes - covering all bases.

I know someone who put 'cold regards' whilst in the midst of grievance proceedings (as the complainant) - I think they thought they were immune from any criticism for being arsey (they weren't)

In case it's useful for anyone, in Teams setting for "Chats and Channels" you can change this so that Enter takes you to a new line rather than sends message.

I put "Hi" if I know the person well, so mainly a direct colleague or someone I work together a lot.

Anyone less familiar gets a "Hi Name".

If I get an email with "Hi" and I am just cc'ed then obviously the "Hi"is the person/group who get the email directly, cc means it's for information only.

Hi.

You’re overreacting.

At my last company, where I was generally at least 20 years older than other members of staff, it took me a while to get over the fact that most stuff was addressed 'hey'

'Hey!' was usually something that we would have said to be a sharp 'stop that' sort of address. So 'Hi', by comparison, is pretty mild. Although obviously ageing.

I remember when emails were first "invented" and am pretty sure that was correct, to not use a greeting. Or maybe I'm misremembering and that was memos!

I don't beat around the bush. I'm so busy to fuck around. Hi, Hi All etc is fine. My colleagues put bloody emojis in their emails I find that totally unprofessional...

YABVVU

Honestly if you have time to notice this sort of stuff never mind be bothered about it you’re not busy enough at work 🤣

Very normal and standard texting etiquette.

I'd probably bridle at "yo" or "hey" but "hi" is fine. Crazy huh?

Hi is perfectly acceptable.

You know your name and who you are so it's unneccessary to restate it.

If you don't know your name, you shouldn't be at work.

Email styles are distinctive to both the individual and organisation.

We've just got Copilot as an add-in to MS365, so it now offers to write my emails or improve my draft emails. It apparently thinks I am incredibly rude and it re-writes my emails with obsequious fluff around the message and offering my help in every request I make. I've asked it to learn my style from previous emails, but it can't bring itself to write like I do.

I'd say my email styles isn't a complete outlier in my organisation.

Couldn’t care less to be honest. But I sometimes appreciate people just getting to the point!

You’re being a bit ridiculous. It’s not rude.

I address my emails, Hello Everyone, I'm old school and can't yet say Hi.

I always like to start my emails with dearest gentle reader...

Totally fine internally and saves lots of time

Probably best you don't tell anyone you feel this way, OP, or you're gonna start getting emails starting, "Hi, you absolute giant baby".

I don’t think it’s rude or unprofessional and I appreciate how busy people are. If we use Teams or Slack sometimes “hi” is dispensed with.

So normal

So you won't reply because you don't like the way they started their email? What's going to be your reason when they ask why? Very odd.