I've always been told to check my emails before sending them but I've never really taken much notice. I just think that I’m professional and intelligent enough in my communications and quite frankly I'm not into people reading my shit (how contrary.)
But on two separate occasions of late, I’ve wanted to bury myself alive after receiving replies to my emails, which I should have checked and I’m now reconsidering my email sending protocols.
On my first unfortunate occasion, I had the delight of having a high profile executive reply to me, asking me not to be so rude, even though he appreciated the Freudian slip in my subject line.
Instead of abbreviating the project name to TWAW, as we all usually do, I had delicately switched it to read TWAT and then proceeded to ask for a purchase order number.
Luckily for me he had a sense of humour and went on to tell me about a key number they once raised that would use the first 2 letters of the brand and the 1st letters of the title words. His ad was for Currys, called 'No Turkey.'
OK so that one turned out alright and kind of makes me laugh when I think about it now, however, the next story is not so funny and still makes me cringe.
So the Monday after I had babysat the 8 year old child of an old work colleague (let’s call him Bob) I wrote Bob an email to find out about the show that he had gone to see on the night of the babysitting.
Of course I made polite small talk and made genuine comments about how cute his son is and how it's nice to see him growing up, finding his interests and hobbies.
His son had shown me all his latest projects, like some neat lego structures, some posters and strangely enough for an 8 year old boy, some craft pieces he had sewn!
I received the reply to my email the next day at about 7 in the morning. I was still in bed and can’t reply from my iPhone. Bob responded about the show and talked about how his son had enjoyed having me babysit too, closing the email with the curious comment of “What do you mean by sexing?"
I was a little confused and thought he had made a spelling mistake of some sort, much to my horror, this was not the case.
I read back through my email and here is a direct quote of what I had written.
"I think he liked having me and my friend there, he was very into show and tell with all his cool stuff. I love how he likes sexing and being craftsy. So cute!"
pokes head in sand
