AIBU to ask what email sign offs you use

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Just that really.

I think regards sounds grumpy.

Best wishes slightly flimsy.

Yours sincerely is more for hard copy letters.

Saw yours truly the other day but that sounds odd and somehow ancient.

I’m in a senior professional role in quite a conventional field. Currently use kind regards but feel like an update.

What are people using just now?

“Kind regards” is my go to.
But, honestly, I once went through a period of signing off with “fuck you” as an experiment to see if anyone noticed. Most didn’t. So I conclude very few people read or pay attention to email signatures.

I must point out that I work in a very banter-centric workplace and customers/vendors were excluded from my “experiment”

Email body dependant but usually

Regards (if passed off, want action as of yesterday)
Kind regards (the one I use most)
Thanks ( close colleague/informal)
Thanks again (action completed)
Many thanks (begging)
Best wishes (birthday, leaver, new baby etc)

Or if I'm really fucked off quadruple spaced and then just my full name

Regards or thanks/thank you are what I use when I send an email (rare these days, everything is on chat instead so no sign off really)

I always use 'regards' . I use 'kind regards' when being passive aggressive 🤣

Hi / Thanks (in reply) / Good morning / Dear -

All the best / Best wishes / With thanks

All switched up according to context.

Generally I like All the best as I’m partly saying it about myself and my work.

In a back and forth communication the salutations are usually dropped and I might close with just my first initial.

All the best
Regards
Kind regards
Thanks
Many thanks
Best wishes
See you soon

These are mine in order of how annoying the recipient has been 🙂

Kind regards
Best wishes
Regards
Many thanks
Thanks
My name

I like to use Yours Faithfully if it's someone I haven't met in person, incredibly formal and freaks them out a bit I imagine. Older and posher clients love it though.

Big fan of writing regrads instead of regards and seeing if anyone picks up on it.

With colleagues I know well it's usually along the lines of "Yours, screaming endlessly into the void etc"

Charity/community support worker, I use “Cheers” have done for years.

Oh interesting that you don’t use emails. I still don’t use 100 % email, still about 5 % hard copy letters 😆 for older clients who don’t use email.

Can you say which field/ industry you are in?

External - kind regards
Internal - thanks!

It’s an email, just an auto signature. It doesn’t require a sign-off

I use “best wishes” but I work in hospitality where all emails are fairly informal

100%

Laters, baby. I feel it strikes the right note.

Best sausages 😂

Ive also had an autocorrect to best retards and caught it before I hit send, thank god.

My most common sign-off is just “Thanks”

Thanks

Kind regards

Cheers for people I like

Stay slaying

cheers

Yours faithfully should only be used if the salutation is dear sir / dear madam.

Kind regards or just regards if they have pissed me off

Kind regards usually or thank you if I'm asking them to do something.

I use Best regards but it is utterly meaningless, I don't do or look for hidden meanings in things.

Sometimes I just write what I want to say and put my signature box with all the work crap in at the bottom.

Quite a few of my work clients use the German one above, they're often UK divisions of German manufacturing companies.

Best and most puzzling one I had was from the service director of the UK agent for a Japanese equipment supplier who had a cartoon fish in his signature.

I do like an excuse to dust off Debrett's (last time it was for addressing a Bishop I believe).

Please find attached below their section on digital electronic communications. Although this is the 2014 edition and they may have updated since.

Yours, screaming endlessly into the void etc😄