To hate receiving emails starting with just my name

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When people at work email me with just my name, and not Hi it makes my blood boil and I can’t help feeling that way 😂it feels abrupt and rude to me.

How hard is it to put Hi or Hello? Or am I being over sensitive? (I probably am)

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Weird. I find all of these fine - name, hi, hello. Dear Herr Dr Professor.

It's our new policy in a secondary school that emails between teachers and pupils are like this, along with full sentences, timings during which they're allowed and cc'ing in line managers.

Previously, I'd get emails just to me at 3am, 'Yo what's the hwk for 2mo?' or 'Heyyyy Miss. Here's my practice essay. Thanks xxxx'

Now it must be title and surname (no hi or dear), and first name to address the pupil, it's much more appropriate.

Does the title bit not open a minefield ?

I have a colleague who does not use any title at all. Not sure how they would address her...

Personally, I would hate it if I got an email from a student that began

Mrs Waspushed

I don't get the homework you set...

They are going to send the email with the same content!

I'm fine with hey miss! Usually they write Hello mrs which I find odd!

I don't like corporate rules in schools, though, personally.

If it's a work email I rarely read the waffley bits anyway - just skip to the actual point of the email i.e. What they want from me!

Don't have the time or energy to get annoyed about salutations or lack thereof.

This is how I feel about it. 'Dear' is old-fashioned, 'Hi/Hello" can be a bit pally and is unnecessary.

I've only had it done to me once by an annoyed estate agent. It felt like I was being reprimanded . I told him off! It's very rude.

lol I don’t like this either

I love

’Hello Mrs!’

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I don't like it when people say my name a lot in conversation: "the thing is, diddy...." And it often includes a touch on the arm. .

It just reeks of 'ive been on an NLP course and I'm directing this conversation'

Depends entirely on the industry (it seems).

‘Hi <first name>’

is totally standard among people who don’t really know each other in my line of work, and I’m surprised to see that some people would find this rude or unprofessional.

Depending on context, I might go for ‘dear’ if it was the first time I was making contact with someone, however once contact is established ‘Hi’ is perfectly normal (in fact THE norm).

Gosh I don't think it's all rude. I do it all the time. I can't stand emails written like letters though. Dear ...

And signing off 'Best', shudder.

I often don't put my name on an internal email. They know who I am. There's a footer.

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I'd rather have no address at all than just 'Jane'

Oh yes, definitely this.

Another one is someone who will read someone’s name badge in a shop, or take note when an advisor answers the phone, them keep referring to them by their first name. It’s like some weird power play thing.

(Although think this is slightly different from your example where it’s more likely they’re trying to subconsciously get you to warm to them or something.)

Love this. Hail is the clear winner so far for me

I work in a fast-paced, male dominated industry and we address each other like that in emails all the time. I'm so used to it now I actually hate when I get the complete opposite style of email scattered with smiley faces and niceties...in my head I'm screaming "just get to the point".

I don’t see the issues. All our in-house emails pretty much just have what needs doing in them. Not a hello or a dear or a Jane or Tom.

“Can this be sorted out please

Ohmygoddont “

Get back

“see following. Actioned.

BossLady”

sometimes emails I get just say FYI with someone else’s email attached. Cut the waffle.

First name only is pretty standard in my industry if emailing clients or other professional advisors. If I'm sending internal emails I'll add 'Hi [name]' unless I know or suspect they'll find it over-familiar (if they've emailed me first I'll generally follow their lead).

I have a manager who will send me emails with other emails attached or forwarded on and simply write 'Pls dl' (because apparently 'Please deal' takes too long to type) - that really winds me up.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently having been helping someone send out marketing emails but to existing customers in a relatively creative industry - so not banking or something. I decided Hi Jane was probably the best. Some younger folk in the company thought it was okay to put ‘Hey Jane’ but to me that felt like a step too far. Also ‘Hey’ written down also sounds a bit like ‘Oi’ rather than a greeting even though verbally it can work as a greeting. One email went out with ‘Heya’. I almost screamed. In defence of the writer they are 21 and not English but seeing ‘heya’ would make me respond very badly. On the opposite end of the spectrum I have recently reprimanded a company emailing me as ‘Dear Sirs’!

I get really annoyed with just 'Hi' like it's too much effort to add my name in.

Agghhh.

I quite like this, might adopt it myself. More old-school than 'Ahoy!', which is how one of my old bosses occasionally liked to start emails.

I tend to see more interesting choices at the end of emails than the start. I had a few clients who used the (apparently military?) sign-off 'Yours aye', which I always enjoyed. I also had a colleague at an old job who would sign-off all of his emails with 'Yours in Christ', which I found a little presumptuous (no religious component to the job)...

When I started using emails at work it worked the same way as texts work. It's casual.

I can't stand if someone sends an email "Dear 25sheets" but then I don't like receiving letters like that. So old fashioned and insincere. Same level of insincerity as the people that say "Have a lovely weekend" when they absolutely don't know you or "Take care"

This is how email should be used. Fast, casual, to the point. Cut the waffling and "take care" bollox

You can wish someone you don’t know well a nice weekend and mean it!