email etiquitte

[JimKiler]

How many other people get emails all day long at work where the subject line has no communication about what the message intends? My personal email has descriptive subject lines except for SPAM. Why does no one bother to do the same in the workplace where it is more critical to sort through the unimportant emails and focus on the important ones. Yet when no one correctly uses the subject line as intended stuff gets missed.

So far my only solution is to change the subject line when I reply.

 

[lxskllr]

Don't reply at all. If they come to ask you why you haven't replied, tell them you assumed it was junk since it didn't have a subject line.

 

[Lotheron]

Don't reply at all. If they come to ask you why you haven't replied, tell them you assumed it was junk since it didn't have a subject line.

Sometimes our president of the company sends out email without a subject line so those are ones you don't want to ignore. It's an honest mistake and we've all done it from time to time. Kinda like forgetting to attach the file you said you were attaching...

 

[Lotheron]

DP!

 

[JimKiler]

Sometimes our president of the company sends out email without a subject line so those are ones you don't want to ignore. It's an honest mistake and we've all done it from time to time. Kinda like forgetting to attach the file you said you were attaching...

Agreed but over 50% of man made emails have subject lines that are meaningless to the recipients. All the auto generated emails have good subject lines. I think my company should send us into email training. What do you think, 15 minutes of training should it?

DP!

what is DP?

 

[GarlicBreath]

Our IT department did something so that you can't send emails with a blank subject line.

 

[SamQuint]

I sometimes have the opposite experience. They type the whole message in the subject line and leave the message blank.