‘What email habits and phrases make you cringe?’ – 23 greetings and sign-offs that will find you fuming
13.
‘“I hope this email finds you well.” No actually. I was doing well until your email found me.’
–Crimbly_B
14.
‘When people put BR obvs meaning best regards, but I always imaging they’re saying BRRR it’s cold.’
–embarrassed_Ad7378
15.
‘Similarly, someone saying they’re ‘OOO’ for out of office. I always imagine this.’
–heartpassenger
16.
‘I email a lot of yanks who often sign off with VR (very respectfully), which without fail I initially read as “very regards”.’
–llamafarmadrama
17.
‘My manager ends ALL of his sentences with ellipses like this…
It means it’s very hard to read the tone and I often think he’s annoyed at me when he isn’t. I don’t know why on earth he does it, he’s been told it’s odd loads of times by different people, but he keeps on doing it.’
–theartofrolling
18.
‘I’ve had people chasing me for stuff that they wanted by ‘end of play’ where I have pointed out that I am still here and working and therefore it isn’t end of play.’
–mostly_kittens
19.
‘Tks and pls instead of thanks and please – like I’m so busy and important that I simply can’t afford the time to write out the full word.’
–SequinSquirrel
20.
‘”Please consider the environment before printing this email.” My dude, it’s 2026.’
–silly_font
21.
‘Some people mark every email as urgent and it drives me mad. If everything is marked urgent, nothing will take priority and I’ll just deal with each in order as if you’d marked nothing as urgent. The result is, people who actually do have an urgent request just get thrown in with the rest as they have no way to differentiate from the not-actually-urgent requests.’
–dersulbob
22.
‘”Nice to e-meet you.”
A plague, a plague on both your houses! I will however accept this as relevant if the initial intro was via Teams/Zoom etc.’
–Former_Bandicoot_769
23.
‘Kindly.
“Please can you kindly do XYZ.”
No. I will do it begrudgingly and you will tolerate it.’
–mimeycat
Source r/CasualUK Image Reddit