Abrasive

[Exterous]

Apparently when you answer a yes or no question by email with just a yes or a no people may find that abrasive. It has been suggested that my email responses are too direct and to the point.

Interesting - I didn't know that was a thing. I'll be sure to be more proficient in my time wasting.

 

[wabbitslayer]

yes

 

[Atomic Playboy]

No.

 

[mrjminer]

Yea

 

[highland145]

word.

You must work with a bunch of Nancy's.

 

[vi edit]

We did a pretty cool personality evaluation with my employer. It's called "Real Colors".

Greens are the typical analytical IT introverts.
Golds are the detail oriented, punctual accounts.
Blues are are the emotional, dramatic type.
Oranges are the party animals/class clowns.

Guessing you are a green and they are a blue. About as incompatible as personality type as you can find.

Greens are one word, don't bother me, just the facts kind of people. Blues are overly wordy and sensitive to everything.

 

[highland145]

We did a pretty cool personality evaluation with my employer. It's called "Real Colors".

Greens are the typical analytical IT introverts.
Golds are the detail oriented, punctual accounts.
Blues are are the emotional, dramatic type.
Oranges are the party animals/class clowns.

Guessing you are a green and they are a blue. About as incompatible as personality type as you can find.

Greens are one word, don't bother me, just the facts kind of people. Blues are overly wordy and sensitive to everything.

Nancy

 

[Exterous]

We did a pretty cool personality evaluation with my employer. It's called "Real Colors".

Greens are the typical analytical IT introverts.
Golds are the detail oriented, punctual accounts.
Blues are are the emotional, dramatic type.
Oranges are the party animals/class clowns.

Guessing you are a green and they are a blue. About as incompatible as personality type as you can find.

Greens are one word, don't bother me, just the facts kind of people. Blues are overly wordy and sensitive to everything.

What is it with you people and only seeing someone's color?

I wouldn't say I'm a 'don't bother me' but otherwise I would agree with your Green and Blue category

Nancy

Stalker

 

[highland145]

Stalker

Well, that puts 1 in your fan club.

 

[OCGuy]

My career almost died an early death due to the way people perceive my tone in email.

Apparently using polysyllabic words can make your superiors nervous. Once I knew that superior was the one actually going out the door, and I was replacing him, I started using emoticons at the end of sentences so he would know that I was not trying to be a dick.

 

[surfsatwerk]

maybe

 

[Ruptga]

Most people don't like anything that's different from them. If every short note is two paragraphs long, they think concise messages are rude. If they're concise, they think wordy messages are a sign of incompetence. If they can't be bothered to use capitalization, they think proper prose is a sign of pretension and elitism. If they could club a seal with their thesaurus, they think quick or careless responses indicate sloppiness or a dull mind.

 

[OCGuy]

Not shitting you, I have had employees email me and use text-speek.

"Do u mind if I leave at 4 to take my son 2 tball practice lol?"

Yea we had a talk.

 

[Baasha]

The first three respones -->

haahahah..

email etiquette? People can't communicate in person properly anymore. email? bah...

 

[darkswordsman17]

OP just add the word fuck in front.

We did a pretty cool personality evaluation with my employer. It's called "Real Colors".

Greens are the typical analytical IT introverts.
Golds are the detail oriented, punctual accounts.
Blues are are the emotional, dramatic type.
Oranges are the party animals/class clowns.

Guessing you are a green and they are a blue. About as incompatible as personality type as you can find.

Greens are one word, don't bother me, just the facts kind of people. Blues are overly wordy and sensitive to everything.

WTF kind of color coding is that?

 

[Jeff7]

It also sucks to ask a complex question, and explain the situation in three detailed paragraphs, and get a response that contains no more than 7 words.


A simple question is looking for a simple answer.

We did a pretty cool personality evaluation with my employer. It's called "Real Colors".

Greens are the typical analytical IT introverts.
Golds are the detail oriented, punctual accounts.
Blues are are the emotional, dramatic type.
Oranges are the party animals/class clowns.

Guessing you are a green and they are a blue. About as incompatible as personality type as you can find.

Greens are one word, don't bother me, just the facts kind of people. Blues are overly wordy and sensitive to everything.

Green and gold mixed together would make for a lousy color. I guess that explains my lack of fashion sense.

OP just add the word fuck in front.
...

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Op, it's called communicating. You repeat what they asked in a DIFFERENT form and answer yes or, no. That is how you let them know you understood what they asked you. Given the number of. 'literal' ninnies inhabiting these forums, I am unsurprised people at work want to make sure you understood the intent.

 

[nageov3t]

when I'm replying to an annoying email and want to express my annoyance (while still answering their question)... yeah, I'll use a simple yes/no and provide no other details/context.

if I'm answering a quick yes/no question but want to seem friendly/helpful, I'll go the "yup" route or maybe "yes, that will work" or "no, please hold off until we have time to talk about this in more detail."

 

[Mixolydian]

Terse is the correct term.

 

[OCGuy]

OP just add the word fuck in front.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email

 

[Sluggo]

and get a response that contains no more than 7 words.

Is that how you got your username?

 

[IronWing]

word.

You must work with a bunch of Nancy's.

 

[DrPizza]

I sent about a 10 page response to a yes/no question recently. I got a "I just need a yes or a no." After I responded, then I got the expected follow-up questions. I referred to the original email: "I expected those follow-up questions and answered them in great detail in the original email."

 

[Jeff7]

Is that how you got your username?

.....huh. I didn't even do that intentionally.

 

[Jeff7]

.....huh. I didn't even do that intentionally.

Nor did I intentionally use 7 periods in that post.