Questions tagged [email]
Questions about professional etiquette when communicating via email.
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What is the best (or at least appropriate) way to deal with "AI slop" messages, emails and requests?
For some reason, a culture has developed at my company where people are almost exclusively sending their requests, emails, instant messages and other communication using LLM-generated text.
We are a ...
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How do I write a letter to HR telling them I want to keep my job when I come back from Australia for 5 months [closed]
So, I am going to Australia to work for 5 months in 2026! My boss knows about this already but I need to write an email to my HR department and I have no idea how to start it off let alone how I ...
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What can I do about a boss who refuses to reply to E-mails? [closed]
I work as a high school teacher and was recently assigned a new principal. Though its policy for us to check E-mail several times a day, two months into the school year, people noticed the principal ...
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How should I email HR after an unpleasant / annoying interview?
I just had an unpleasant technical interview today. After presenting myself, the interviewer asked precisely nothing technical, no "test your knowledge", no coding questions, nothing about ...
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Is the shortened name in e-mail address still considered professional?
I am preparing job application materials (cover letter, CV) and my e-mail address [email protected] doesn't quite fit the design. It forces me to either break it up into two lines or to enlarge the ...
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When to use Reply All?
I've tried googling an answer for my situation, but I still couldn't tell what I'm supposed to do (not good at English), so sorry if the answer is obvious.
I landed an internship this month and today'...
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Can I give a potential employer the LinkedIn address of my previous employer instead of his email address?
The application form for the job I'm applying for requires the email address of my previous supervisor. My previous supervisor, however, has given me only his LinkedIn address instead of his new email ...
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How to politely tell to a colleague to be more specific?
I got an email from a colleague from another branch asking for help.
The email goes more or less like this:
Hi everybody,
I’m gonna loop the team who has a bit more experience with this XYZ thing.
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Potential employer promised to give an answer but has not yet responded [duplicate]
I found another group that I'm considering as a potential new place to work.
The head of the laboratory sent me the following message:
Name, greetings!
My name is Dr. Surname. I am the head of this ...
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How to effectively communicate that I want weekly meeting moved to MS Teams rather than in person? [closed]
A little over a week ago, my boss gave me an unwarranted verbal lashing. We are now supposed to meet in person on a once weekly basis for an hour to discuss my work activities. I am in the process of ...
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How to word an email about discrimination and ableism
How do I professionally say “(name) has repetitively told me not to use the ‘I’m autistic’ excuse” when she asked, why I do things a certain way, or yells at me.
I also told them upon being hired ...
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How can I say this in a professional email?
What I'm trying to say is "On multiple occasions (name) has tried to 'set me up (meaning a romantic relationship) with both the customers and some of the ups drivers" I am currently typing ...
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Manager not happy that I have discussions with executives at events and following up in emails [closed]
Situation:
At our monthly events I socialized with leadership (executives) and had an "elevator pitch" with the outcome of executives' support on a critical project for the organization and ...
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How to handle an employee that responds to an email he is copied in on, but is not his responsibility to take that action?
I work in an industry where external emails come in where the senders will typically just throw a bunch of recipients' emails into the TO: and hope they get a response from any one of the parties (so ...
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My co-worker accesses MY email ALL the time, what can i do [closed]
I found out that my co-worker was in my personal work email. She had emailed our HR department and was writing about personal information in my email! I work at a Doctors' office in New Mexico and ...