You guys may be able to help me with this annoyance.
One of the seniors keeps making comments re the emails I send via our main email address.
I usually just put the name of receiptient in email and then details etc. Rarely put a Dear or a Hi before name (unless itâs a GP)
Dear is for letters and Hi is for mates. I feel Iâm being fairly neutral. No doubt Iâm wrong and there is some email etiquette I missed out on in the 25 years of having an email address.
She even mentioned it to the manager who sits next to her and later I commented I could actually hear her. She was surprised. I sit opposite them in an open plan office.
Is it me, or is it her?
You are right she is wrong
End of
She is also a snidey grass,
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CB is spot on with his appraisal, which is more than can be said for the manager, if they didnât reply to her comments with âandâ or âsoâ.
Is her work load so light she has to find irrelevant things to moan about?
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Dear intiniki, thank you for your post enquiring about email etiquette. I think people that make email message overly formal are twats. Posts on Sotonians however should always be respectful and formal in nature.
Yours sincerely
saintbletch Esq.
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Thanks @CB-Saint, @Saint-or-sinner and @saintbletch for you feedback.
My manager didnât seem that fussed. Yes maybe a it too much time to be worrying about that. Considering I have to do things super quick at times (like today taking back to back referrals) then maybe give me a bit of slack!
@Intiniki cant fault your way of addressing e-mails it is even more confusing dealing with Asians as they dont appear to be able to tell sexâs apart he becomes she and vice versa in the same mails.
Typing the whole mail in capitals also gets frowned upon for some reason I dont understand why.?
A lot of people respond to that with dont shout at me
Well I was shouting at you deal with it is my response.
Yes caps is shouting. But if you are shouting then itâs fine*
Caps is hard to read if you have wonky eyes like mine.
Also red type or some weird colour on black etc.
*possibly not.
Corrected it for youâŚTwat.
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After the pleasure of the really nice Hen Party crew yesterday, got some right bloody riff raff today
BBC News - Holocaust: Angela Merkel visits Auschwitz for first time
But srsly what a bloody palaver. 1st time Iâve had ny van sniffed thatâs fâsure
Thatâs a rather coarse euphemism. 
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Bleach is your friend.
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I felt most at ease in my Van with these neighbours this morning.
Expect Goatie may have needed the bleach for his car seat if hed been in this position
Donât mind if theyâre sat in their vans. Itâs when they start lifting slabs I get worried.
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Online banking and pin sentry.
Had to transfer some money from the UK to Philippines went online logged in as per normal no issue.
International transfer message you must use pin sentry for this.
OK get card reader insert card pin code get 8 digit code enter.
error that code is incorrect please enter new code. so again insert card enter pin new 8 digit code enter that
and the next message. for security you have been logged out please contact number 664536537
call number in Uk from middle of the South China Sea and after voice activate telephone get transferred to a call centre in Mumbai.
Nahjiv is very helpful after the security questions where he now nows more about me than my mother. he knows her maiden name by the way.
ok sir you have to log in again ok that done membership number or card number ok enter card number no dice still locked out.
OK I will reset it and try again
Ok reset info put in bingo we are into the accounts .
Lets try and complete the transfer then .
International transfers Please ente sentrypin number.
Error you have been logged out.
Log in with your membership number ok same thing enter pinsentry number Error code you are locked out.
OK i will generate a new membership number for you try that
enter new number error code you are locked out.
Sir your card was issued in August we have had a problem with those we are issung new cards.we will send you a new card.
I am in the middle of the South China Sea and need to transfer money from my UK account to Philippines. Oh International transfers can do that but they only work Monday to Friday 08:00 til 18:00 its now just gone six they have left already from the UK.
And as I am now locked out of the account I cannot even check the balance.
Question If you knew the cards issued in August were defective why have you not contacted me and issued a new working card?
We are getting around to it .
What is you address registered for your card ? I am in the South China sea. We can only send a new card to the registered address. ok Give address.
That card you have will now be blocked when the new card is issued in 4 to 5 working days.
and can I still use it in ATMâs No Sir It will be blocked.
Long and the short of it when I get off the rig I will have no cash no card to get cash and its 4 days before Christmas. fucking bollox
I hate banks.
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Or I may have just been scammed and my UK account is now Empty
and I cant log into check.
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Somebody has to pay for the mods Christmas get togetherâŚ
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Flights booked. See you in Labuan. Cheers!
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Iâve just committed WhamicideâŚ
Setting Mrs Btripz up for her singing gig and I put a Christmas CD on to sound check, first song Last Christmas, boom Whamageddonâ:man_facepalming:
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Our long weekend in Cherbourg cut a day short, tomorrowâs ferry sailing cancelled due to expected storms so had to return today or wait until midweek at best. I wouldnât have minded a couple of extra days there tbh, but have a job booked on Tuesday that I really couldnât get out of. Still, I suppose itâs better than a wet Sunday in Normandy in the pissing rain and gale force windsâŚ
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So someone tapes an overripe banana to a wall and calls it art, which then sells for $120,000, then a performance artist takes it down and eats it. Art? What a load of pretentious bollocks.
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