To feel like being rude back when I get an 'FYI' email

[NewlyMintedPeasant]

I loathe forwarded emails with just 'FYI' from the sender, no greeting, regards or manners. I'm not talking about adding FYI to a subject bar so the recipient knows now to reply, but people who forward emails to you and write nothing but 'FYI'.

It seems the equivalent of walking into a colleague's office and dumping a file on their desk without comment. It takes me seconds to write something like 'Hi xxxx, here's the minutes of the meeting last week. Regards Newly'. I find the tone of it condescending too and it seems to me on the same level AS text speak, I feel like replying 'Ok wil file l8r m8'. A kind of subtle way of Saying you're not worth the extra 20 secs manner would take.

Am I alone on this one. It feels like suddenly every other document sent on to me through work is an 'FYI' one, e.g. just FYI and next term's meeting dates attached.

didn't mean to drip... the highest total I probably reach on day to day emails is 2 or 3.

It's not lazy. It's a quick and efficient way of disseminating information to an individual.

You want a gossip and pleasantries head to the water cooler.

At work, it doesn't bother me at all, though a german colleague sent an absolutely hilarious email about the importance of starting and ending emails politely. This had the immediate effect of everyone mentally starting and ending emails to him very rudely
I really think you are overthinking this - its just passing on something you might find useful, not asking you to do anything

I don't think it's rude or impolite, even if you only get a few emails a day.

I do this.
I also sign my name with just my initial sometimes too.
Plus i do the read receipt thing that everyone was frothing about recently.
Shit, I'm that annoying woman in admin aren't I?

YABU. I am grateful for a FYI as it kind if means to me that it's not really for me so I don't have to read it that closely or action it. I bloody love FYI's.

YABU. Much better to be informed than not... and if you have nothing specific to add to the email chain I think 'FYI' is sufficient.

In my old job we used it as a subject line to disguise emails containing daft pictures or links.

FYIs are the best. It means You Don't Actually Have To Do Anything About This Communication. Lovely.

I used to work in Financial Services, FYI was used all the time. People were busy and it was a quick way to do it. Wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

It diesn't bother me at all, either from colleagues or DH. With colleagues it is either advance warning or gossip; DH it is evidence that he has done something We talked about needing to arrange such as lunch with Pils or car servicing.

FYIs are great. They aren't adding to your workload. They are not the same as dumping a whole load of files on your desk in the slightest.

I don't mind FYI. It's a quick acronym to alert you to something you need to be aware of.

I used to have a client (admittedly English not his first language, although he was a fluent English speaker) who would write things in his emails like 'Kindly send over a response ASAP' or 'Gentle reminder this needs finishing today'.

He probably thought he was being polite, but the tone of these emails was so cold & patronising. The nuance of the English language lost on him...

I don't mind FYI at work on two conditions:

1. I don't have to scroll through reams and reams of forwarding with 'can you pass this down to Mary, who then passes it on to all the managers, you then pass it on to admin, who then mass email it out to the team with FYI'

1. The FYI is actually for my information, rather than something I do not need to know or do not give a flying professional fuck about. Particularly if it is at the bottom of an email as described in condition 1.

I can go particularly purple if I come back to several emails of 'so and so has lost their keys' , next email copying everyone in 'could they be in the kitchen', another email 'what about the meeting room', followed with 'so and so found their keys, in their pocket haha'. Oh. Fuck. Off.

On the read receipt, I have the option of it asking me whether to tell someone I have read the email or whether to keep them in suspense.

YABU

It's a quick and efficient way of distributing information to people who need to see it, but you don't need them to act on it/send you a further response. It's especially handy when you have to process 100+ emails a day

I actually find people who insist on including small talk/courtesies with an FYI-type email to be deeply irritating and time-wasting. My colleague who sits less than 1 metre away from me does this:

Hi Zara1984,

Just sending you this for your information!

Thanks Zara!

Regards,
FeckingEejit

WHY? Such a waste of time to write and read.

My husband always does this ? I think I need to leave the bastard

They don't bother me at all within the corportate environment. I send them and I receive them. I would find it strange if they came from a friend.

corporate, I mean

Oh, I do that all the time. Mainly to people who sit very close to me though, and work on the same sort of stuff. I wouldn't think to be offended by it?

I do sign with an initial too though, so perhaps I'm just a bit of a tit?

YABU. I get about 60 emails every day and about half of these need forwarding to a range of other people just 'for information'. I really can't be arsed don't have time to compose a message around every one of them.

Whats rude about FYI? Its not really text speak either, that would be 4YI
Its a bit better than a forward with no text, and takes about 2s to type, so quite efficient.

FYI is totally normal in the workplace IME

FYI is fine at work, regardless of how many e-mais/how small the team.
E-mail in a small team isn't used as a "g'mornin', how are you, good weekend?" chatty type communication, so don't see why it's rude to be brief.