There are people out there that infer negativity from an email if you don’t do the exact thing they expect. The exclamation marks was something that two of those people told me was necessary because being clear and direct instead of overly cheery was ‘hostile’. Yes, ‘We did a thing and it is time for the next thing’ was said to be hostile by these two and the meme gave me flashbacks.
One of them was fired and the other retired and I longer have to play the exclamation mark game! See, that was genuine excitement and not playing it up for petty jerks.
There are people out there that infer negativity from an email if you don’t do the exact thing they expect. The exclamation marks was something that two of those people told me was necessary because being clear and direct instead of overly cheery was ‘hostile’. Yes, ‘We did a thing and it is time for the next thing’ was said to be hostile by these two and the meme gave me flashbacks.
One of them was fired and the other retired and I longer have to play the exclamation mark game! See, that was genuine excitement and not playing it up for petty jerks.