To ask your favourite passive aggressive email sayings

[amazeandastonish]

I have irritating colleagues, as I'm sure we all do, and whilst I'd love nothing more than to say something like "fuck off", I obviously have to be more polite and professional.

So what are your favourite passive aggressive email sayings? Are there any I don't already know?

My favourite is "as per my last email"

Also someone in a previous job once signed off with "take care". Neither of us liked each other and I knew she really didn't mean

Apparently 'kind regards' means anything but, yet I'm not sure everyone realises that so I don't think that's really a PA saying!

Our medical director used to have an auto reply like that. It was basically a huge 'fuck you minions who are beneath my notice'
I was very annoyed when I got it but then I thought 'well at least she's honest' and I can feel confident that I was right to fill in the NHS staff survey to state that management are 'not at all' interested in hearing clinicians concerns.

She also got her PA to phone me to book a timeslot for her to phone me as I guess she was too busy to risk wasting her precious time picking up the phone to just call me herself. When it was my time slot I had to phone the PA and wait to be put through so plenty of my lowly time wasted hanging about on hold but none of hers.
I had already decided before the phone call not to volunteer for whatever thing she was trying to get me to do as I just could never see myself ascending to the echelons where I am too important to phone a colleague directly or answer my emails.

[quote amazeandastonish]@coodawoodashooda this is a thread about things people say at work, not how our exes spoke to us. I believe the PP was referring to how her lawyer husband talks in a work context not to her. So take your relationship history to another thread and don't derail mine.[/quote]
Nothing PA about you I see - just the A bit

I came across a really ridiculous email from a person who is very ignorant, telling someone off, who is highly intelligent and in a nationally important department. The reply was: "Thanks."

Having a good chuckle at some of these, but only got halfway, off to bed now. Anyway... you will receive a response in due course.

BR

That's funny. That's exactly what i thought. The irony!

BW for 'best wishes'

The ones I love are where, after multiple Reply Alls from people desperate to throw their weight around, be seen saying thank you repeatedly, contradict one another, and at least one where I'm being ordered about in a tone you'd expect to be used for a particularly obtuse six year old by somebody who isn't even my boss and has no knowledge of my role, the big boss then uses my sent-direct-to-her response for a 'Thanks for your incredibly useful response regarding the potential legal implications of this situation, Mooncup, which I think explains the matter perfectly even for those in this group who clearly haven't a scooby - A, I trust you will act upon this?' sent to all.

It's the clearest way of letting me know that they recognise it's all going a bit Game of Thrones over Outlook and I'm having nothing to do with it.

My work doesn't involve email as I'm a dispatcher in the emergency services so we work on CAD.
"Please populate CAD with informant's details" = "how many times do you need to be told TO DO THE BASICS"

"Noted" "can't believe you've just wasted my time making me read this"

Someone in another department signs off their emails
"All the best"
Their emails go to the Directorate....I find it teeth itching. Is it a Mrs Hinch thing?