![]() And somehow I got it in my head that adding that little “just” in there made whatever request I had smaller, easier to handle, and less of an inconvenience to whoever I was emailing. “Just” is a word that minimizes whatever follows. They couldn’t even be bothered to click their mouse into another email field because they were so damn busy! I longed to be that important one day. For instance, the subject of the email would be “Is 2pm OK for tomorrow’s meeting?” and the body of the email would be left blank. And then there were those whose entire email would exist in the subject line. Others would sign their emails with only their first initial-or not at all! This, I thought, was very casual and cool. There were those who structured their messages like a letter-very formal and polite. In this kind of environment, you can’t really help but think of the way people send emails as a kind of personality litmus test. ![]() ![]() Face-to-face discussions were rare most of your day was spent constantly refreshing your inbox for movement on projects, and conversely, getting up from your desk to use the bathroom … only to return to a 600-email explosion. Shortly after beginning my first real, professional-lady job out of college, it became apparent that email is the main mode of communication in an office-the language of the workplace, if you will.
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