'What we have here...is a failure to communicate.'
This is something that I'm seeing more often lately. This is a problem that I'm not seeing how I can get around without some sort of confrontation. It's clear to me now that I am a significantly different with communication than my boss.
An example of our differences:
"Please provide an update on this situation. -Thanks!" - Me
"Why cant you get your act togeter" - Her
See the differences? Here, I am at least remaining civil and focused on respectfully requesting assistance. And here's bosswoman properly alienating our vendors while also demonstrating poor communication skills. These are the times in which I question my reality on whether this is acceptable or not. My gut tells me, 'No'. The little voice in my head that corrects my own grammar/spelling is screaming, so I suppose it would be accurate to say that if I see this kind of behavior in formalized communications (emails, internally or externally), I tend to judge them negatively.
I suppose this is my own maddening idiosyncracy working here, but I can't help but judge the company and all those associated with it when I read a poorly worded email. I naturally assume others do this when they see her emails and maybe this why it bothers me so much?
Okay, rant's over now. Back to work for me!
This is something that I'm seeing more often lately. This is a problem that I'm not seeing how I can get around without some sort of confrontation. It's clear to me now that I am a significantly different with communication than my boss.
An example of our differences:
"Please provide an update on this situation. -Thanks!" - Me
"Why cant you get your act togeter" - Her
See the differences? Here, I am at least remaining civil and focused on respectfully requesting assistance. And here's bosswoman properly alienating our vendors while also demonstrating poor communication skills. These are the times in which I question my reality on whether this is acceptable or not. My gut tells me, 'No'. The little voice in my head that corrects my own grammar/spelling is screaming, so I suppose it would be accurate to say that if I see this kind of behavior in formalized communications (emails, internally or externally), I tend to judge them negatively.
I suppose this is my own maddening idiosyncracy working here, but I can't help but judge the company and all those associated with it when I read a poorly worded email. I naturally assume others do this when they see her emails and maybe this why it bothers me so much?
Okay, rant's over now. Back to work for me!
posted by Tobiwan | 11:48 AM
3 Comments:
She sent it like that? with the misspelled word? And the contraction without an apostrophe? I thinkyou are supposed to avoid contractions completely in formal messages. If that is her norm for messages, it is very unprofessional.
Correct, misspelled word and no punctuation. Welcome to my world.
Wow. That's horrific. And I work in a smallish trucking company with country (and sometimes redneck) people. Even they know to write better than that!
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