To have demonstrated my absolute disdain and fury...

[MangosteenSoda]

... by signing off an email with just ‘Regards, Mango’.

Is it too much

I'm not British, we are fucked aren't we .

This thread is making me laugh.

I have a few colleagues that always sign off with 'Regards, Name'.
But if someone who usually says 'Kind regards' suddenly dropped the 'Kind' for one message then I'd know they were secretly seething over something.

I used to alternate between 'Kind regards' and 'Thanks' but now always go with Kind regards (cos in my head saying thanks instead makes me a push over )

I think "Best" can be not the nuclear option in some situations - I have a couple of old and dear academic friends who sign Best, to me. Unless they secretly hate me and I've not worked it out in a quarter of a century always possible, I spend a lot of time with a bag on my head in social terms.

I went absolutely bananas at someone unhelpful once with
Regards,
IWWTG Willow.

That'll teach them.

However, DS1 often tells me I hate him because I use actual punctuation in text messages as "am here to collect you." means "get in the fucking car before I rip your head off, you toad" when all I meant was "I am waiting outside as agreed".

I used to work for the Civil Service.
Two words would strike fear in everyone.
In anticipation

HQ always signs with "Kind regards" when they are sending us a shitty email as if that lessens the blow somehow. Wankers! I really hate "Kind regards".

I'm afraid I wouldn't even notice!

Oh balls. I sign off regards not because I’m angry but because all the others are lies. I don’t want to send someone warm regards (that sounds like hugs or sexy eyes) or best wishes (is that ‘I will pray for you’ or ‘if there’s a finite supply of good luck, I’d allocate the most to you’). Regards to me is just ‘a nod goodbye’ or ‘smile and wave’. Maybe I should add this terrible explanation to the end of my emails.

I have heard that 'happy to discuss' translates as 'I will fight you in the car park'

I laughed out loud at this, so accurate!

I also hate "Thanks for your understanding". I haven't actually given my understanding yet and am actually not pleased but they seem to think that presenting me with a "Thanks for your understanding" means I will just blindly accept things and not make a fuss.

I thought 'regards' was the correct way to sign off an email. Does everyone I've ever emailed think I'm pissed off with them? Oops!

I don't see how that is showing disdain. It seems quite normal to me. Mangoes are nice, reminds me I have two in the kitchen that need to be eaten. Thanks.

I think "Best" can be not the nuclear option in some situations - I have a couple of old and dear academic friends who sign Best

Are they Scottish? Seems to be more common there. (Either that, or all my Scottish colleagues despise me)

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow

Attach this next time, OP, so they feel the burn...

I love that so much

I'm worried. I have spent 30 years telling colleagues and customers 'Rgds'
I'm now hoping this is somehow better due to some obscure point of etiquette.

@BuggerBognor

I find it less passive aggressive to just write "twat" in massive letters under the email and then change the text to white.

I've used the odd "with all due respect" in anger too.

I'd love to do that, but it's way too risky these days!

I usually just write regards. I think has a fairly casual, we are getting on fine type of vibe to someone I know or work with a lot. If I put kind in front or best it means I don't know them. Or it means I have said something harsh or controversial in the email but they can be offended as I have been so polite in the sign off. We are all sending hidden messages and dont know what will be taken from it!

I have a sliding scale. I start off with ending with kind regards, my name, and then if they are being ridiculous it'll end up being just regards and my name. Not got to the regards and no name yet, that's proper furious!

Happy to discuss - I’m not happy to discuss it and if you question me again I’m going to go nuclear on your ass!! 😂

I came out of local government when nobody really signed emails off at all into a minefield environment where everyone signs everything off. So I went from maybe:
"Could you give me an update on xyz project please?" To:
"Hi Jane, could you give me an update on xyz project please? Kind regards Whit."
In my LG job we used emails as we'd speak - you know who you are speaking to so why do you need to put names on anything? I am sure I horrified a few new co-workers in my early days, until I realised they treated emails like letters.

Oh gawd I don’t use Regards if I’m feeling Paddington Hard Stare-y, I sign off with a terse
D. EntonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat
Sometimes preceded by ‘I look forward to your swift response’ depending on the circumstances.
(on a barely related note, I once worked for a man whose initials were
D S. He always used to sign off simply ‘regarDS’, excellent )

It's only ever effective if you're normally a 'kind regards' or 'best regards' person!

I used to live in a steading where we all had enormous issues with one neighbour. My nice neighbour used to sign off e mails to her with 'warmest regards'. We all knew it meant 'die in hell you vindictive old bat'.

@Meripenopause I interpret Rgds to mean:

I hate this job, I hate you, I hate myself, I just don’t give a fuck about anything and I don’t give a shit about your response.

So actually apt for most people during 9-5

Love your username btw!

@PlanDeRaccordement

Interesting. So can I ask you, my British friends to tell me whether closing by saying:

“With respect,

Name”

Is that good or not good?

“With respect” means

”I have no confidence in your ability to find your own arse with both hands in a well lit room, your opinions have less relevance to me than a dead leaf falling in a forest in the Amazon Basin, and I believe your mother was no better than she ought to have been.”