you know how people put x at the end of everything these days... do colleagues?

[ImpossiblyGlossy]

was reading another rels thread about an H mirroring an x from another colleague.

Do people really put an x on a text to a colleague - say er.. you were saying"Please bring in that document tomorrow" would you really x it?

Some do idiots

Yes, I've had work colleagues put a couple of x's on the end of fb posts, I wouldn't read anything into it tbh unless there's other issues?

oh no my colleagues know not to attempt any cutesiness with me :)

was just a slightly stunned question.

id presume they wanted to copulate tbh

The bloke DP trains with in the gym puts a X on his messages sometimes! I think it can just be an automatic thing if they are people who usually end with a X. If that is the only issue then I wouldn't be too worried.

HE LOVES HIM

i always put an X at the end of messages and unfortunately thay have gone onto messages that were meant for bosses etc

One of my colleagues does this.

I am hoping that the very deliberate gap at the end of my reply is noticed. I am not x'ing the fucker back.

And one of the PAs at work puts smiley faces on the end of her emails.

The silly cow. I really, really don't take her seriously.

I've a colleague who puts x. Now what's the etiquette about my response- do I x back? I feel I should or I'm being rude.

Anyone else had this dilemma?

Its me
i would not put an x i would put something rude like oIo and hope that looks like a cock and a pair of balls

I 'x' back if the other person has, and don't if they haven't.

Unless I'm talking to DP, who always gets 'x's, or someone else at the same time as DP, because I get confused and they are likely to get 'x's too.

I'm a simple soul!

I hate putting kisses on things. What do you do in the awkward situation where somebody texts you and puts on kisses? Is leaving them off a snub?

I'm on an online dating site and refuse to reply if a man sends a message with a kiss after it. It is far too familiar for me.

i only x in cases of bereavement or divorce, or I suppose if was faced with a text about arson, treason or something

I read something just the other day saying some staggering percentage office affairs begin when one party puts an x at the end of an email.

But so many people do it. Just recently, I got one on the end of a text from a taxi company to say my taxi was waiting outside.

Yes lots of people do it. But in my very honest opinion. It's totally unprofessional and I hate it.

No 'x's for colleagues - if someone 'x's me it had better be someone I know doing it ironically!
I'm more confused by the other Mums putting 'x's on emails/texts - I really don't know how to respond to that. I usually do it back though as I don't want to look rude.

If a work colleague has my private number, then it stands to reason we are also friends so yes.
If I had a work phone, I'd prefer they didn't but wouldn't think anything of it if they did.

There is a pretty senior manager where I work who does this. They also omit basic sentence syntax and use ellipses and exclamation marks like they are going out of fashion. They are generally viewed as ineffective, with poor people skills and little management ability.

I recall an email I received some time ago along the lines of:

geek... attchd powerpoint presentation..... i need u to remove the bold from word x on slide y and email this back to me.......... tx...... x

My ex started putting 3 x's on the end of his texts to me when he was away. Most weird and I continued to put only one back. When I finally got evidence of his affair discovered he was sending the same texts to me and to OW .

Yeah quite a few people did at the last place I worked - vast majority women. I don't think it's very professional but quite a lot of even quite senior people did

I ration my Xs carefully, and also tend to sign off texts the same way the other person does (feels rude to send no Xs when they've sent 3). I don't to colleagues though.

I only know one person who x's work emails, he is a lovely guy but basically on another planet. There can being x'ing in the work place, that's just wrong.

Other than him, I wouldn't x anyone back in a work context. I'd just assume they were trigger-happy x'ers who couldn't control themselves, rather than actually wanting to kiss me, or indeed wanting an x back from me in return.

My boss's boss started doing this a few months ago. She even does it in announcements that she posts on the work Sharepoint site.

It makes me feel really bitey, and I think makes her look really unprofessional.

I must admit to being v suspicious of an assistant at stbxh's work putting an x at the end of messages and using cutesy abbreviations of managers' names.

It was only once i had a male friend that I put it in perspective. He'd put an x (or 3) on his texts to me and I got all excited about it, until he mentioned that it used to annoy him when his XW got messages with xs on, but now he knows that it doesn't mean anything :-(

Its a tricky balance. I've stopped using them randomly when online dating as it may give the impression I'm keener than I am, but if someone is genuinely a friend, male or female then I use one as a friendly gesture and will sign off to DCs' friends' mums with an x, even if I don't know them that well.

Stbxh started x-ing messages and in person :-o til I pulled him up on it and said it was inappropriate. Twat.