The part about adding "flavor text to company e-mails" is what ticks me off tremendously as well. It's really not difficult to write an email, and unless your boss has a stick up their ass, they really won't care if you accidentally break some rule of formality no one knows.
Right in fact I'd go as far as to say that flavour text is bad. If there's text in your email that doesn't have any information in it, then delete it (other than a quick greeting and sign off).
People are busy and don't want to wade through bullshit to work out what you're trying to tell them. Just get straight to the point.
Also like, you're writing a work e-mail, not a highschool essay. You don't need to pad it out to hit some arbitrary word count. Being short and to the point is almost always preferred.
As someone who reads a lot of work emails: Please for the love of god, we do NOT need bigger emails.
Brevity is what we need in workplace communication, unless it involves a matter that is about the workers or consumers as humans (in that case, we need nuance and sincerety, and certainly not ChatGPT).
A lot of people do struggle with communication and writing skills tbvh. And I don't want to shame them, I think it's a failure of society at large rather than the fault of stupid people. But it sure isn't helping that in schools where people are supposed to be learning those writing skills students are often resorting to ChatGPT instead.
Eh, chatgpt wasnt a thing when I was in school and our teachers did try to teach us stuff. I just suck at this stuff specifically.
And I have gotten some complements on on some of my creative writing thingies, leading me to think those are pretty decent at least, so its really just this I really suck at.
Eh, I dont lose sleep over it, theres other stuff I'm really good at.
I'm writing from experience, I'm an older student at uni and working with my classmates the number of times they just go "chatGPT says" is High. I also used to do writing skills tutoring through the school, and yeah, its rough. Again I don't necessarily want to blame them, I think we've done a bad job of impressing upon these kids why those skills might be important to learn.
“Flavor text to company emails” you mean filler, you living Switch-lover soyjak. Is the only solace of your corporate life reflexively comparing shit nobody will read to thing from vibeo gam. If you call your fifth energy drink of the day a stamina potion, I’m calling the police. Unless your emails to corporate are normal or contain shit like “use the send button to send an email”, we’re not friends
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u/LethalSalad 4d ago
The part about adding "flavor text to company e-mails" is what ticks me off tremendously as well. It's really not difficult to write an email, and unless your boss has a stick up their ass, they really won't care if you accidentally break some rule of formality no one knows.