Got in trouble about a year ago for supposedly being “Passive aggressive” in emails
How? Well i simply sign off the end of the email “Kind Regards” and my name most of the time as is professional
Well this changed during one long boring email thread with a supervisor were it started as Kind Regards, Ended up as “Regards” to being nothing, Not even my name by the end of it (My outlook didnt have this automated at the time)
I got pulled up on email etiquette by my manager over this and they got HR involved as they deemed I had an attitude over it. The solution? They put my outlook to automatically attach Kind Regards, My name + company signature at bottom of all my emails and policy locked me out of it so i cannot change it.
The best bit, We recently got new iPhones and the outlook on there has no enforced signature attachment so im back to it! Waiting to see how long before a manager pulls another power trip on me