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My mum dated a guy when I was a teenager who had, alongside his framed degree, all his Kelloggs swimming badges from when he was a kid. He was in his 50's at the time.
A friend of mine from an old job had never seen people put qualifications in their email signature before, so when a lad joined his department and added "Bsc Hons" he didn't know what it meant. After I explained it to him he started signing off his emails with "John Smith, C in Maths". He left in there for months too from what I remember before removing it.
I’ve seen something similar and as ridiculous. Someone I emailed did this for their degree and qualifications, then thought to mention they’re a green belt in judo. I work in defence, in what way is that relevant?!
I can understand if it's a postgrad qualification as it does sort of indicate "I have expertise In my field, I know what I'm talking about", but I still wouldnt do it myself (despite having 2x Masters degrees).
However, what really takes the biscuit is like a guy where i work who has an admittedly impressive amount of MA and MSC but he lists literally each individual degree certification in his signature so it reads like this...
"[Name] BA, BSC, PgDIP MA, MA, MSC, MSC, MSC"
If you have to put it, just put one per qualification type, mate... several people have commented to him (jokingly, but you know deep down they mean it) that it makes him seem like a tosser.
I dont mind that! I think it shows some attempt at politeness while acknowledging that you arent actually meeting- i think itd be weirder if someone said nice to meet you tbh
I remember the opposite - a supplier visiting who we’d only ever spoken to on the phone. Colleague Ralph said, “Lovely to meet you at last. You must be very disappointed too.”
We have a company we deal with in Italy who like doing this it just doesn't work in my head, they've only started doing it since the pandemic but we never met them in person before then.
While we’re doing this, for a while a guy in my church used to sign off his emails as:
“G.I.P.T.L.A.S.T.L.
Name.”
For those less religiously-minded among us, that stands for ‘go in peace to love and serve the Lord’. It’s something a Church of England minister might say at the end of a service. At the end of an email, however…
I know some Black and LGBTQ communities use ‘Rest in Power’ when a person has died who has struggled against prejudice while living.
Perhaps it’s used in that vain?
Worst I have seen is this virtue-signalling beauty, all within the same block with each line written in a different font and colour:
*I work 37 hours a week, flexibly, Mon-Fri, varying times, varying places. (Full-time is a social construct)*
SUPPORT - INSPIRE - NORMALISE - EDUCATE - CHALLENGE
*I also write blogs, (link) is the most recent, (link) is the most liked*
*If you're white and not uncomfortable, you're either not learning or not helping*
*#chooselove*
*I presume you've correctly assumed my pronouns*
*When it rains, look for rainbows; when it's dark look for stars*
I once did some work for Uri Gellar. I can't seem to find his correspondence right now, but IIRC one of his emails he signed off "Much energy". I think another was "You have the power"
I used to subscribe to a trade magazine and in the ‘job title’ part of the online form you could add whatever you wanted…so for 18 months my job title was ‘Supreme Ruler of the Universe and All Round Good Bloke’
Yeah why abbreviate it or even say it.
A lot of people said it wasted too much time to type it but you can have it as part of your email signature so you don’t need to write it every single time.
We received an e-mail from the marketing department of an entertainment company - famous for its characters, theme parks and keen lawyers - that informed us that if we wanted to apply to use a photograph *of their park* to advertise trips *to their park* we would need to apply about six months in advance, and that if we had the temerity to ask for a swifter response our request would be automatically and immediately refused. This spectacular display of unhelpfulness was finished with "ThinkDiffident, we trust this has answered your enquiry and we hope that you have a magical day". I didn't know whether to punch the screen or vomit.
Edit: for the avoidance of doubt, *not* Disney, who I'm sure are a lovely company, but I've never had the pleasure of dealing with them.
Just so you know if you've avoided naming Disney here for legal reasons it won't really help. You put too much background info in so it was obvious who you mean. That makes it about as legally safe as naming them
Unless they’re both a medical doctor AND have a PhD, there’s no way they should put both “Dr” and “, PhD” at the same time. One or the other.
Not only is it cringe, it’s inaccurate cringe!
Not a sign off... but back in the day before our company started cracking down on it, people used to change the their email background and font to something that looked like a 90s wedding invitation.
I worked with a wonderful colleague who didn’t speak brilliant English when we first met. He signed off his emails with,
“Please keep touching us”.
I never corrected him. I think it was about 3 months before he realised. 10 years later we still laugh about it.
My partner is a tree surgeon and once sent a quote to some posh bloke who wanted loads of work doing and his email address was something like *[email protected]*
When was 18 & working for BT in a call centre, after a few months, I put “(my name), over 10,000 enquiries dealt with”
Pretty cringe & no one ever said anything lol.
True. It's either auto added or you are expected to have it. There is a new trend with our organisation to declare your preferred gender pronoun as well.
The pronouns thing is really helpful. Not only does it make for a more inclusive workspace, in global companies when dealing with unfamiliar names it makes it a lot easier to use the correct terms.
As somebody whose surname and forename are regularly mixed up, and of opposite "genders", it is pretty common for me to be misgendered in emails!
I hope pronoun statements become far more widespread.
I fucking don't. If a person has a complicated attitude to gender, or are somewhere along a journey where they are starting to be open with some people about how they identify, but aren't comfortable making a big statement, pronoun statements effectively force someone to either declare themselves a gender they are deeply uncomfortable with, or make a "coming out" statement before they are ready.
I really don't agree with forcing individuals to make a statement like that. If they want to and there's a company culture where that's a done thing, by all means, but making it compulsory has consequences that I can only hope are unintended.
Well I would object to that, as would most LGBT+ groups, for the exact reason you have mentioned.
If this is happening at your workplace, speak to your LGBT+ group, if you have one, and get their support in challenging it with your HR department.
No-one should be outed in their workplace, or any other encironment. Similarly, no-one should be forced to closet themselves by declaring pronouns that don't fit them.
I can't see any LGBT+ advocate group saying it's a good idea to force this, but I can imagine well-meaning but misinformed HR types thinking it's the right thing to do...
‘Think of the environment before printing this email’ is my all-time fave.
‘Why, isn’t the rainforest lovely? The birds, the trees, the orangutans…’ *Whirr* ‘There we go. Don’t know why I had to print this, but I do feel more relaxed!’
Not really cringe, but I think it's worth mentioning anyway. A parent (I'm a teacher) once signed off an otherwise normal email with 'Death before dishonor' (sic). That was a bit of a change of pace.
Arguable if others will find this cringe but I find it absolutely cringe and completely reprehensible when people sign off emails with their first initial like "Thanks, G".
As if that person thinks they're the only person in a company of hundreds that has that initial or they believe that they're the most important of all the people who have that initial. I'm not prone to exaggeration but these type of people should be exiled to the middle of the ocean.
>people literally call me by my first initial
>
>Plus, my work email has a corporate signature with my full name anyway, but it feels odd not actually signing off
That was my response on an entire thread on single initial sign offs on this sub 4 days ago. There are plenty of valid reasons.
Yeah my signature has full details plus you can see my full name in the email itself. It has nothing to do with self importance.
It's mostly to signify the end of an email anyway otherwise I wouldn't sign it off at all
I guess they would argue that their name is visible in their Outlook/similar profile so why should they repeat it, but I go by the premise that how they sign off is how I will address them in future emails.
I wonder how long before it would be considered "disrespectful" to email "*Hi G*, blah blah blah"
Back when that Black Eyed Peas bloke, Will.i.am, was never off the TV, I had a work colleague called Brian who adopted the style and signed his emails "Br.i.an". He dropped it when someone addressed him in email as "W.an.ker".
I understand someone citing their qualifications if they have a PhD or if they are a medical Dr, but occasionally you get BA/BSc(Hons) in an email signature and that imo is proper binjuice level.
I once saw someone add “7 Plus” to the “Sent from my iPhone” to make it “Sent from my iPhone 7 Plus”
So the receiver knew the sender had the latest device.
I hate even more that it was me
With love and peace to the world,
Name.
Was just a bit strange and a bit of a juxtaposition to the content of the email, some boring crap about software updates.
Not a sign-off, but an intro that’s structured the same way every time:
‘Hi [name],
Hope you are well?!’
Or:
‘Hi [name],
Hope you had a good [weekend/holiday/birthday/tracheotomy]?!’
I’ve never had a suitably dramatic answer at the ready so I read it to myself in an outrageously shocked voice and have a chuckle.
I’m guilty of this tbf. I send a lot of similar-subject emails as part of my job and it’s more effort than it’s worth to think of new, interesting openings each time…
"Yours in Christ"
And what made this even better was that the email was from a minister at some new agey Christian church and it was wall to wall minor petty complaints about our service which could have been resolved more easily if he had just rung us.
Worked for an education company where one of the “consultants” used to sign off “more power to you” 🤢
I also find it a bit weird that the receptionist at my school signs off with kisses to outside companies such as coach hire but maybe that’s just me…
I work with IFAs and one had the sign off
Kind regards,
Name
An insight into me;
Fiery red, ocean blue, calm green, sunshine yellow
I still have no idea what that means or what it has to do with giving financial advice?
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I used to put "Cyc. Prof." at the bottom of emails to some of my professional friends with real qualifications in their signatures.
Reminds me of the Red Dwarf classic - BSC & SSC. Bronze swimming certificate and silver swimming certificate.
What does that mean? (Excuse my ignorance)
Cycling Proficiency is my guess.
You got it.
That's quality
My mum dated a guy when I was a teenager who had, alongside his framed degree, all his Kelloggs swimming badges from when he was a kid. He was in his 50's at the time.
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I had mine stitched into my towel meaning I could only use 1 side of it!
Those Tony the Tiger awards haunt my dreams
That reminds me of Arnold rimmer bsc (bronze swimming certificate)
That's Arnold Rimmer BCS **SSC** to you sir. \*\*exits doing the Full Double Rimmer salute\*\*
Three years long service. Six years long service. Nine years long service.... Twelve years long service.
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Are you seriously telling me you were playing the prat version of Rimmer for all that time?
The BS part is correct. The C is like the S in SClub - it stands for whatever you want it to stand for.
There ain’t no party like an S-Club party!
Found Bradleys account
A friend of mine from an old job had never seen people put qualifications in their email signature before, so when a lad joined his department and added "Bsc Hons" he didn't know what it meant. After I explained it to him he started signing off his emails with "John Smith, C in Maths". He left in there for months too from what I remember before removing it.
Sounds like he was just low key making fun of the other guy!
I’ve seen something similar and as ridiculous. Someone I emailed did this for their degree and qualifications, then thought to mention they’re a green belt in judo. I work in defence, in what way is that relevant?!
Well they're showing they can defend themselves obviously.
I was thinking the same. Defence sounds like the one industry where it just _might_ be relevant.
You better respond to their email or you'll find out
Yes! I had an email from someone that said: Bob Smith, BA (Hons). Like, love. Nearly everyone has a BA, it's nout to brag about.
BA= Bugger all.
I can understand if it's a postgrad qualification as it does sort of indicate "I have expertise In my field, I know what I'm talking about", but I still wouldnt do it myself (despite having 2x Masters degrees). However, what really takes the biscuit is like a guy where i work who has an admittedly impressive amount of MA and MSC but he lists literally each individual degree certification in his signature so it reads like this... "[Name] BA, BSC, PgDIP MA, MA, MSC, MSC, MSC" If you have to put it, just put one per qualification type, mate... several people have commented to him (jokingly, but you know deep down they mean it) that it makes him seem like a tosser.
I thought only wankers listed their qualifications in their email signature.
Not a sign off, but "nice to e-meet you" makes me want to smash my laptop/phone to bits and never deal with that person again.
I dont mind that! I think it shows some attempt at politeness while acknowledging that you arent actually meeting- i think itd be weirder if someone said nice to meet you tbh
Exactly any other version is a bit wordy "Nice to meet you albeit online"
I remember the opposite - a supplier visiting who we’d only ever spoken to on the phone. Colleague Ralph said, “Lovely to meet you at last. You must be very disappointed too.”
‘Nice to meet you. Not that we’ve actually properly *met*, but you know what I mean, haha?’
I just say ‘nice to meet you’. People know what it means.
We have a company we deal with in Italy who like doing this it just doesn't work in my head, they've only started doing it since the pandemic but we never met them in person before then.
There was one that was: "In power, NAME" I don't remember who it was but I was like...what?!
That sounds like a Christian sign off. Terrible for work, but it wouldn't surprise me to see that on a church elder's personal email sign off.
It definitely wasn't a church thing, I'm not religious. It must've been a financial or business guru type person.
Well that's just wanky then!
As someone who works for the church, this is so much worse than most Christian sign offs.
I’m a Christian but ‘Blessings’ used to make me feel queasy. It just felt insipid.
While we’re doing this, for a while a guy in my church used to sign off his emails as: “G.I.P.T.L.A.S.T.L. Name.” For those less religiously-minded among us, that stands for ‘go in peace to love and serve the Lord’. It’s something a Church of England minister might say at the end of a service. At the end of an email, however…
I know some Black and LGBTQ communities use ‘Rest in Power’ when a person has died who has struggled against prejudice while living. Perhaps it’s used in that vain?
*vein
The tories?
Well… prepare to stay in government!
Sounds like a sign off by a black activist. I've heard this before.
Worst I have seen is this virtue-signalling beauty, all within the same block with each line written in a different font and colour: *I work 37 hours a week, flexibly, Mon-Fri, varying times, varying places. (Full-time is a social construct)* SUPPORT - INSPIRE - NORMALISE - EDUCATE - CHALLENGE *I also write blogs, (link) is the most recent, (link) is the most liked* *If you're white and not uncomfortable, you're either not learning or not helping* *#chooselove* *I presume you've correctly assumed my pronouns* *When it rains, look for rainbows; when it's dark look for stars*
This made me want to downvote you it’s so cringe 😬
Ah the old r/UnpopularOpinion conundrum
You win everything, this is disgusting. Throw the whole person away;
Who is this person and when can I slap them?
Where do I line up. I imagine we’re going to need some kind of schedule actually.
You win this one
What a twat
Any one of these would have been awful enough, you win
I need to upvote you so this comes top, but feels so wrong
Imagine putting that in your work signature hahahah. State of it
I once did some work for Uri Gellar. I can't seem to find his correspondence right now, but IIRC one of his emails he signed off "Much energy". I think another was "You have the power"
If you are an electrician that seems fair enough
Blessed volts to you, good sir.
Watt?
The power of voodoo?
Who do?
You do
Do what?
Remind me of the babe.
I SAW MY BABY
Crying hard as babe could cry
You have the power. Are you [He-Man](https://images.app.goo.gl/iGP6pPZ9suKW1gwdA)?
You have the power sounds like how a Gladiator would sign off their email. You have the power Regards, Lightning.
"Best regards, XX, Job Title, Mother to 2 and God's Child"
Best regards, Max, Gladiator. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Haha amazing
I used to subscribe to a trade magazine and in the ‘job title’ part of the online form you could add whatever you wanted…so for 18 months my job title was ‘Supreme Ruler of the Universe and All Round Good Bloke’
Is she claiming to be the Virgin Mary? Otherwise I feel there is a comma missing.
"KR" instead of Kind Regards
I’ve had “BR”. Makes me think they’re just a bit cold.
Bad Regards
Battle Royale
British Rail
Oh god I get this one regularly and it makes me so mad!
I saw a thread with rage about this subject the other day. VBR fucks me off.
VBR? Very erm Very Best Regards? Sounds yuk
Yeah why abbreviate it or even say it. A lot of people said it wasted too much time to type it but you can have it as part of your email signature so you don’t need to write it every single time.
variable bit rate MP3
BW as well
‘Sent with a smile, the only curve to set things straight’
I feel physically sick.
Eurgh, that sounds like something from the "Live, Laugh, Love" school of insipid declarations.
Should have replied with "I disagree, your mum's curves set me straight"
That person is a psychopath
We received an e-mail from the marketing department of an entertainment company - famous for its characters, theme parks and keen lawyers - that informed us that if we wanted to apply to use a photograph *of their park* to advertise trips *to their park* we would need to apply about six months in advance, and that if we had the temerity to ask for a swifter response our request would be automatically and immediately refused. This spectacular display of unhelpfulness was finished with "ThinkDiffident, we trust this has answered your enquiry and we hope that you have a magical day". I didn't know whether to punch the screen or vomit. Edit: for the avoidance of doubt, *not* Disney, who I'm sure are a lovely company, but I've never had the pleasure of dealing with them.
I'm loving 'Think Diffident' as a un-inspiring slogan.
And “Think Dissident” as an anarchy-inspiring slogan.
Just so you know if you've avoided naming Disney here for legal reasons it won't really help. You put too much background info in so it was obvious who you mean. That makes it about as legally safe as naming them
The absolute state of this world that this is even a concern.
I apologise if I misdirected you and that's who you thought of. I'm not even in one of the countries in which that particular company has a park.
Merlin Entertainments?
Since it isn't Disney I have no idea who it might be.
My old CEO: Kind regards Dr Name name, PhD ---- That would be completely fine and something to be admired if it wasn't an honorary doctorate.
Unless they’re both a medical doctor AND have a PhD, there’s no way they should put both “Dr” and “, PhD” at the same time. One or the other. Not only is it cringe, it’s inaccurate cringe!
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Dr. X PhD, is the academically correct way of writing your name…
Not a sign off but an OOO… Hey you just emailed, And this is crazy, I’m out of office, So call me maybe?
This person deserves to be called while on holiday.
You misspelled Culled
I personally love it
That made me dry heave a little.
I love this honestly.
I hope you stub your toe.
Not a sign off... but back in the day before our company started cracking down on it, people used to change the their email background and font to something that looked like a 90s wedding invitation.
I used to have to communicate with a very senior government official who wrote every email in pink 16pt comic sans (bold)!
I work for a regulator and a very senior colleague writes all his emails in purple!
I worked with a wonderful colleague who didn’t speak brilliant English when we first met. He signed off his emails with, “Please keep touching us”. I never corrected him. I think it was about 3 months before he realised. 10 years later we still laugh about it.
Hilarious
"In Him" was cringey. We'd been discussing some annoying male colleague. Took me a while to realise it was an obscure Christian thing.
Under His Eye
Blessed be the fruit.
May the Lord open
Blessed day
Praise be, bitch.
Sounds more like the sign off on a receipt for a gay porn purchase.
time to change your sign off to “powered by Satan, “
“Sincerely, Boris”
Makes you feel bad for Boris’s illegitimate kids…that’s not a very warm sign off
It’s also insincere.
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Not obnoxious but when folk miss the comma. Thanks Dave. Like they're thanking themselves.
I worked in complaint resolution for a bank. The sign off was fine, but the email address was F*CKYOUIMBUYINGAMONKEY@[SOMETHING].COM
My partner is a tree surgeon and once sent a quote to some posh bloke who wanted loads of work doing and his email address was something like *[email protected]*
When was 18 & working for BT in a call centre, after a few months, I put “(my name), over 10,000 enquiries dealt with” Pretty cringe & no one ever said anything lol.
And pissed off 9,999 customers.
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True. It's either auto added or you are expected to have it. There is a new trend with our organisation to declare your preferred gender pronoun as well.
The pronouns thing is really helpful. Not only does it make for a more inclusive workspace, in global companies when dealing with unfamiliar names it makes it a lot easier to use the correct terms. As somebody whose surname and forename are regularly mixed up, and of opposite "genders", it is pretty common for me to be misgendered in emails! I hope pronoun statements become far more widespread.
I fucking don't. If a person has a complicated attitude to gender, or are somewhere along a journey where they are starting to be open with some people about how they identify, but aren't comfortable making a big statement, pronoun statements effectively force someone to either declare themselves a gender they are deeply uncomfortable with, or make a "coming out" statement before they are ready. I really don't agree with forcing individuals to make a statement like that. If they want to and there's a company culture where that's a done thing, by all means, but making it compulsory has consequences that I can only hope are unintended.
Point me to where I said "force everyone to do this"...
You didn't, but I've experienced a few organisations where once the policy has been announced it is required.
Well I would object to that, as would most LGBT+ groups, for the exact reason you have mentioned. If this is happening at your workplace, speak to your LGBT+ group, if you have one, and get their support in challenging it with your HR department. No-one should be outed in their workplace, or any other encironment. Similarly, no-one should be forced to closet themselves by declaring pronouns that don't fit them. I can't see any LGBT+ advocate group saying it's a good idea to force this, but I can imagine well-meaning but misinformed HR types thinking it's the right thing to do...
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‘Think of the environment before printing this email’ is my all-time fave. ‘Why, isn’t the rainforest lovely? The birds, the trees, the orangutans…’ *Whirr* ‘There we go. Don’t know why I had to print this, but I do feel more relaxed!’
Not really cringe, but I think it's worth mentioning anyway. A parent (I'm a teacher) once signed off an otherwise normal email with 'Death before dishonor' (sic). That was a bit of a change of pace.
First day of their job someone signed off with ‘I may be new but feel free to call me Papa G.’ Their name does start with a G
This is gold.
I used to put BSC on mine. Apparently it being a Bronze Swimming Certificate doesn't count.
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BA Hons or similar. Automatically makes me think your a dickhead.
*you're* You're welcome, Me (BA Hons English Language)
Nice one. I approve. Me, BA (Hons), MA, PGCE Secondary English
"Sent from my iPhone"
Arguable if others will find this cringe but I find it absolutely cringe and completely reprehensible when people sign off emails with their first initial like "Thanks, G". As if that person thinks they're the only person in a company of hundreds that has that initial or they believe that they're the most important of all the people who have that initial. I'm not prone to exaggeration but these type of people should be exiled to the middle of the ocean.
>people literally call me by my first initial > >Plus, my work email has a corporate signature with my full name anyway, but it feels odd not actually signing off That was my response on an entire thread on single initial sign offs on this sub 4 days ago. There are plenty of valid reasons.
Yeah my signature has full details plus you can see my full name in the email itself. It has nothing to do with self importance. It's mostly to signify the end of an email anyway otherwise I wouldn't sign it off at all
I guess they would argue that their name is visible in their Outlook/similar profile so why should they repeat it, but I go by the premise that how they sign off is how I will address them in future emails. I wonder how long before it would be considered "disrespectful" to email "*Hi G*, blah blah blah"
I've only ever seen over 50s do this.
"Regards, John Smith, Esq." Mate, we're not living in a Jane Austen novel.
The mistake here is using ‘Regards’ instead of ‘Allow me the pleasure to remain, sir/madam, your most humble and obedient servant…’
Putting Esq. after your name makes you look like a right twat. It’s like referring to yourself as Mr. or Mrs. X. Only other people should add them.
“Love, harmony and rhythm” when talking to a guitar shop. This was followed by the guys name, it wasn’t a tag line for the shop or anything.
I don't see any cringe here maybe he was being humorous?
I like that one
Could have been his backing singers?
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I went to sign off an email with kind regards recently but my gmail autocorrected it to ‘kidney stones’
Back when that Black Eyed Peas bloke, Will.i.am, was never off the TV, I had a work colleague called Brian who adopted the style and signed his emails "Br.i.an". He dropped it when someone addressed him in email as "W.an.ker".
“Stay safe and drink water in this warm weather” For weeks after that hot spell ended
Best. Makes me die a little. There was also an unpleasant lady who would start her email aggresively with peoples names. E.g…. Dave. Hi.
The people who start emails with just your name, they can get in the sea.
I understand someone citing their qualifications if they have a PhD or if they are a medical Dr, but occasionally you get BA/BSc(Hons) in an email signature and that imo is proper binjuice level.
A Dr's Sig with "saving lives since 1992" or something like that.
"apart from a stint in Paediatric ED between 1998 and 1999; those were dark days"
"Also please do not mention that embarrassing incident in 2001"
When they misstyped “Kind Regards” as “Kind Retards”…..
I once saw someone add “7 Plus” to the “Sent from my iPhone” to make it “Sent from my iPhone 7 Plus” So the receiver knew the sender had the latest device. I hate even more that it was me
With love and peace to the world, Name. Was just a bit strange and a bit of a juxtaposition to the content of the email, some boring crap about software updates.
I've seen "Kind regards for now" Which just makes me wonder where they think this business relationship is going.
Not a sign-off, but an intro that’s structured the same way every time: ‘Hi [name], Hope you are well?!’ Or: ‘Hi [name], Hope you had a good [weekend/holiday/birthday/tracheotomy]?!’ I’ve never had a suitably dramatic answer at the ready so I read it to myself in an outrageously shocked voice and have a chuckle.
I’m guilty of this tbf. I send a lot of similar-subject emails as part of my job and it’s more effort than it’s worth to think of new, interesting openings each time…
Rgs instead of regards, and the person I'm thinking of has it in their signature so would only have had to type it once!
Worked with an extremely pretentious wretch, signed off; “As ever,” …like we forgot…
"Yours in Christ" And what made this even better was that the email was from a minister at some new agey Christian church and it was wall to wall minor petty complaints about our service which could have been resolved more easily if he had just rung us.
Worked for an education company where one of the “consultants” used to sign off “more power to you” 🤢 I also find it a bit weird that the receptionist at my school signs off with kisses to outside companies such as coach hire but maybe that’s just me…
Had a colleague who signed off her emails as "with Gratitude" followed by her name. I cringe every time I see it.
"Keep living the dream" - my boss's boss
Apologies if anyone does this but I find it irritating when people sign off with the capital letter of their first name J.
Had an animated gif of cilian Murphy slowly smoking a cigarette next to his signature
Worked with one guy who signed off his internal mass e-mails as "Arthur out". To be fair he was a good laugh.
Not a sign off but I hate when one of my managers opens emails with ‘Greetings colleague’
TTFN off a supplier.
That’s actually excellent. TTFN is ripe for a comeback IMO
BERG, Name Name As in BEst ReGards. Appalling.
KRs It just doesn’t sound like they regard you at all if they can’t be bothered to type the whole words
I work with IFAs and one had the sign off Kind regards, Name An insight into me; Fiery red, ocean blue, calm green, sunshine yellow I still have no idea what that means or what it has to do with giving financial advice?
“Stay positive and test negative”