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?

Regards, if I'm grumpy.
Kind regards, if I need a favour.
Campervangirl, if you've pissed me off.
Thanks, if it's within my immediate team.

We have a nice one here in Scotland, “Yours aye” which means “ yours always”.

Not sure it gives the right vibe to clients though 😁

ha, i despair of dear in professional emails. They are not my dear, just my colleague. If I use Dear then it's because I feel like I have to resort to being very formal

Hi or hello or just "Tom," is so much better.

KR & other versions for sign off

Many Thanks

Kind regards - who really gives a fuck what’s being said?

My signature is set as

Best Regards
ThinWomansBrain

People know it's preset, but no one will think I'm being curt by not putting anything
Occasionally I'll overwrite it with Thanks/Have a great weekend etc.
If someone has pissed me off I'll remove the 'best regards'

Salutation - generally Hi, although if it's a name that "Hi" sounds odd with, most often something alliterative, I'll change it for 'hello' - I know that's alliterative too, bot sounds odd less often.

I have long maintained that both salutation & sign off are pointless & ridiculous.

Recipient knows who recipient is.
First thing recipient does is check who the message is from.

Was it to a vegan?😂

I always say “many thanks”. Or regards.

It may sound grumpy but I find the idea of expressing “kindness” to people in a business context a bit bullshit and fake so I can’t bring myself to say “kind regards”.

I think kindness is something that has to come from the heart. It’s not something you can really introduce into a transactional relationship.

Video editor, for mostly social media type vjdeos, so never get any paper stuff and rarely emails now.

Many thanks,
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"Kindest Regards" always. I don't know why or where I picked it up, but probably at my first job.

I always just write either "Yours" if it's someone I don't know/more formal situation or "Thanks" if it's someone I know/less formal.

I personally like “meow for now”

Did you have the same qualms over "Yours faithfully" and "yours sincerely" in business letters?

Its funny because although I know Dear is formal, I think of it as really overly familiar. I think this is from years of working with slighlt older European women who call me Dear first name facw to face, as a term of endearment I don't hear often in the UK.

I use Many thanks name to sign off all emails unless I am really pissed off. Then either Thanks on its own or just my name

I do 'many thanks' or sometimes just thanks.

One colleague just does KR which really bugs me

Another does 'Best'
Another does 'rest easy'

A former colleague used to use 'much thanks' which really wound me up

The IT team at my office are a pretty fun bunch, if they send out a company wide email that comes from the generic IT support mailbox they mix up the sign offs with things like 'live long and prosper' 'your friendly neighbourhood IT team' 'try turning it off and on again' etc

Many thanks for formal. Cheers, J for informal.

Kind regards for anyone external

Thanks for anyone internal

Yours faithfully / sincerely for anything very formal

I love this! I wish I had a job where this was acceptable!

Best is absolutely the worst.

Hope that helps.

Best

"Kind regards" unless the recipient has annoyed me in which case it's just "regards"

Cheers or thanks to someone familiar / more informal emails

I feel the same way. My lack of the use of the work 'kind' does not mean you've been downgraded, it feels so false.

Yes, 'kind' regards feels false to me too.

I suppose my reason for not liking 'best regards' is similar. It seems so unnecessary and false when 'regards' says it all.

Though I have to admit that most of the time, 'insincere regards' would be much closer to the mark! 😁

(I should point out that I am thinking here of email exchanges with total strangers, usually when dealing with utility providers and the like, which accounts for well over 90% of my emails.)