More whining from me – sorry!
I just had my yearly performance review. Apparently I need to work on my tone in emails.
The issues noted were me saying phrases like:
“As explained before”
“Please see email below”
Stuff like that.
I, for the life of me, do not understand how someone can complain about this. (I mean, I guess I do? Because everything online is just read with the worst possible intentions it seems. I just think it’s stupid.)
It’s a fact. I have explained it before, the information is in the previous email. Why in the everloving shit do people have to take that as some sort of personal judgement and get pissy about it? It’s a neutral statement.
In our damn trainings they tell us not to assume ill intent behind an email, but what? Because I’m at the bottom of the pecking order I have to spend HALF AN HOUR on an email to make sure I stepped softly enough? To make sure it’s littered with enough apologies and caveats as if I haven’t been training myself for YEARS to stop doing that in my personal life because it’s a waste of energy and only makes my anxiety worse?
This is so ridiculous.