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

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NewlyMintedPeasant · 22/08/2012 20:27

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.

OP posts:
perplexedpirate · 22/08/2012 22:25

Dear OP,

I could NEVER do this. It's yet another way that modern technology is eroding basic manners (but I am a facetious sod).

Kind regards,
Perplexed.

NewlyMintedPeasant · 22/08/2012 22:38

Dear perplexedpirate,

I am very glad to have met you as you are clearly a kindred spirit (but I am a thick-skinned sod and surely nothing written in parenthesis is vital information).

Warm regards,
Newly

OP posts:
perfectstorm · 22/08/2012 23:59

Think it depends.

If you have been sent 10 emails in one go from someone, the first personalised and the next nine just fw and literally fyi, then no, not rude, as personalising more than one is overkill.

As an initial contact after a month of none, then yes, rude.

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