Email sign off etiquette poll

[CrawleyJ]

BW or KR instead of Best Wishes/Kind Regards

YES - it’s the modern era, we don’t have time for full words, the sentiment is there

NO - rude as fuck, how important do you think you are that you can’t even type out best wishes

Is yes - YABU
No- Yanbu ??

It’s a No from me !

No

Need a better guide for voting op!

No. Rude as fuck.

I don’t think it’s rude as such, just very, very wanky. See also “Thx”.

No, you look like a twat.

Fuck sakes

I was looking at the yes/no to enable voting

YANBU - it’s all cool
YABU - rude bastard

I'd never use it. It would take me a while to work out what BW before someone's name meant.

YABU

It is rude and I wouldn't know what it meant

Nooooooo!!

I wouldn't automatically realise what the abbreviations meant.

No, for all the time it takes to write it in full, I woudn't resort to BW and KR.

We have someone at work who signs off

Thx

BW

JD (made up initials)

It’s fucking rude isn’t it?!

BW Big Wanker
KR Kinky Rimjob

No. It's incredibly rude. It gives the impression you can't be bothered, or that your time is more valuable than theirs, when you're too lazy to even type a few more letters.

NO

Rude as fuck and wanky to go with it!

Why is voting 50/50 when everyone has said no?

I find it really irritating, and I’m in a work culture that’s just thanks, initial, x most of the time (which I’m fine with!)

I would find it rude and / or pretentious

And person is senior leader, so has now spread through organisation and more and more people are doing it

I’m going to go with a new trend

Yours, forever faithfully, in kindest regards

JD

I had no idea this was rude, I’ve always used BW. Ooops.....time to change!

Rude - If you’re emailing someone who you know well enough to use abbreviations with then you’re not saying ‘kind regards’ or ‘best wishes’. Either it’s my boss saying ‘can you do this, ta’ and it’s not needed, or I’m emailing a client in which case I should be typing in full.

Dear @Worriedwellworrier,

I hope this post finds you well? Please desist from using BW in future communications.

Yours, in anticipation,

JD

YANBU
I have a colleague who signs off with

Best

Find that a bit pretentious, too.