Overused / irritating words,phrases
#76
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Re: Overused / irritating words,phrases
I'm a 'Regards' kinda chap unless you've done something well / beyond the call of duty then its 'Best regards'....
I do like writing a decent passive aggressive email though. Something that doesn't explicitly say that you're a twat, it just strongly alludes to it..... repeatedly.
I do like writing a decent passive aggressive email though. Something that doesn't explicitly say that you're a twat, it just strongly alludes to it..... repeatedly.
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Re: Overused / irritating words,phrases
It was suggested late last week that me refusing to accept the Sri Lankan guy's negotiation tactics of saying no to our offer to stay on less money because he needs more money for school fees wasn't a 'culturally different' way of negotiating, it was '****ing moronic and stupid'.
When I spoke to the chap and asked him what his plan was if he rejected our offer of an increase, he laughed. So I laughed. So then we were both laughing, at the fact he was going to say No to an offer of more money because it covered only 3,000 of the 3,166 needed for the school fees increasing. Calling him a liar and asking what he wasn't telling me and if he was stupid went down so well with the people sat around me that I had an audience for the rest of the call.
#80
Re: Overused / irritating words,phrases
I don't have patience at the moment and can't tolerate stupidity at all. 'Straight talker' might be a good label to be allowed to carry on speaking without worrying....
It was suggested late last week that me refusing to accept the Sri Lankan guy's negotiation tactics of saying no to our offer to stay on less money because he needs more money for school fees wasn't a 'culturally different' way of negotiating, it was '****ing moronic and stupid'.
When I spoke to the chap and asked him what his plan was if he rejected our offer of an increase, he laughed. So I laughed. So then we were both laughing, at the fact he was going to say No to an offer of more money because it covered only 3,000 of the 3,166 needed for the school fees increasing. Calling him a liar and asking what he wasn't telling me and if he was stupid went down so well with the people sat around me that I had an audience for the rest of the call.
It was suggested late last week that me refusing to accept the Sri Lankan guy's negotiation tactics of saying no to our offer to stay on less money because he needs more money for school fees wasn't a 'culturally different' way of negotiating, it was '****ing moronic and stupid'.
When I spoke to the chap and asked him what his plan was if he rejected our offer of an increase, he laughed. So I laughed. So then we were both laughing, at the fact he was going to say No to an offer of more money because it covered only 3,000 of the 3,166 needed for the school fees increasing. Calling him a liar and asking what he wasn't telling me and if he was stupid went down so well with the people sat around me that I had an audience for the rest of the call.
Meanwhile, apropos "kind" regards: in my very firm view, kindness is an attribute that can/should only be observed by somebody else. One should never seek to ascribe kindness to one's own actions or intentions in my view. Hence, never ever offer "kind regards" as I may find them decidedly unkind and you, at best, blunderingly ignorant or, worse, pompously malevolent for describing them thus....
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Re: Overused / irritating words,phrases
Um, perhaps he had, or was expecting, a better offer from elsewhere?
Meanwhile, apropos "kind" regards: in my very firm view, kindness is an attribute that can/should only be observed by somebody else. One should never seek to ascribe kindness to one's own actions or intentions in my view. Hence, never ever offer "kind regards" as I may find them decidedly unkind and you, at best, blunderingly ignorant or, worse, pompously malevolent for describing them thus....
Meanwhile, apropos "kind" regards: in my very firm view, kindness is an attribute that can/should only be observed by somebody else. One should never seek to ascribe kindness to one's own actions or intentions in my view. Hence, never ever offer "kind regards" as I may find them decidedly unkind and you, at best, blunderingly ignorant or, worse, pompously malevolent for describing them thus....
I disagree on 'kind'. I wish you Kind Regards. If 'you' (recipient) choose, deliberately or otherwise to take that the wrong way then the problem is entirely 'yours'.
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#82
Re: Overused / irritating words,phrases
It's worse when people put it into their auto-signature, so it becomes just a default platitude. Even worse is people for whom "Kind Regards" or "Best Regards" is too much of an effort to type so they put "KR" or "BR".
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Re: Overused / irritating words,phrases
Meanwhile, apropos "kind" regards: in my very firm view, kindness is an attribute that can/should only be observed by somebody else. One should never seek to ascribe kindness to one's own actions or intentions in my view. Hence, never ever offer "kind regards" as I may find them decidedly unkind and you, at best, blunderingly ignorant or, worse, pompously malevolent for describing them thus....
#85
Re: Overused / irritating words,phrases
Um, perhaps he had, or was expecting, a better offer from elsewhere?
Meanwhile, apropos "kind" regards: in my very firm view, kindness is an attribute that can/should only be observed by somebody else. One should never seek to ascribe kindness to one's own actions or intentions in my view. Hence, never ever offer "kind regards" as I may find them decidedly unkind and you, at best, blunderingly ignorant or, worse, pompously malevolent for describing them thus....
Meanwhile, apropos "kind" regards: in my very firm view, kindness is an attribute that can/should only be observed by somebody else. One should never seek to ascribe kindness to one's own actions or intentions in my view. Hence, never ever offer "kind regards" as I may find them decidedly unkind and you, at best, blunderingly ignorant or, worse, pompously malevolent for describing them thus....
If I don't like you I'll usually write just 'regards' or if being friendly, or I know you, or am in a good mood, 'best wishes'.
#87
Re: Overused / irritating words,phrases
I used to work with a woman who would end all her letters (pre-email days) with:
Assuring you of our best intentions at all times.
Now that is pompous.
Assuring you of our best intentions at all times.
Now that is pompous.