Dear undergraduates (email etiquette)

[PiratePanda]

I understand that you are keen to start this new episode in your life. But please try to refrain from sending me a peremptory email about your timetable and an aggressive follow-up two hours later to ask why I haven't answered 1) on a Sunday morning 2) 3 weeks before the start of the year 3) when I know you've been told timetables will be provided in induction week and 4) I'm not in charge of them anyway (and I don't know why you thought a random lecturer would be the right person to email).

Also, my name is not "Hi".

What is wrong with people these days? Does no one teach email etiquette?

Ah, thank you.

Rockpink most academics don't know our timetables till we're told them. And we have little control over them. Although a friend at another institution can request limits on when she teaches, but she has to take a ay cut to do so.

I'm not teaching this year, but I get the Departmental emails and timetables are just being sorted out now. Your Departmental admin staff are the best people to ask: they're the people who do the timetable.

And the same guidelines apply: but it sounds as though you are a sensible normal polite person not a spoilt PFB who knows how to communicate effectively!

Love the charming little note. I occasionally send an old fashioned honest-to-god card instead of an email when I think the occasion warrants it. I'm not even that old honest! but good manners go a very, very long way, especially these days.