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Apr. 20th, 2010 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynDear co-worker:
You are a man in his late thirties or early forties. You are seated at a computer at a financial services firm. You know how to type. You are not using a cellular phone, and even if you were, it would be a BlackBerry from one of the lines with the full QWERTY keyboard. You know the English language as your native tongue and you have no nervous system disorders of which I am aware, nor do you have any physical disorders of which I am aware which might cause typing to be painful or a burden.
Why, therefore, do you think it is okay to email the IT department with a three-line request for help that ends in the line "Pls come by when u can. Thx."? You did not grow up a child of the Internet age. You grew up in a time when people were expected to use full words and sentences in their written communication. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.
*pant* *pant* *froth* *hiss* *spit*
You are a man in his late thirties or early forties. You are seated at a computer at a financial services firm. You know how to type. You are not using a cellular phone, and even if you were, it would be a BlackBerry from one of the lines with the full QWERTY keyboard. You know the English language as your native tongue and you have no nervous system disorders of which I am aware, nor do you have any physical disorders of which I am aware which might cause typing to be painful or a burden.
Why, therefore, do you think it is okay to email the IT department with a three-line request for help that ends in the line "Pls come by when u can. Thx."? You did not grow up a child of the Internet age. You grew up in a time when people were expected to use full words and sentences in their written communication. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.
*pant* *pant* *froth* *hiss* *spit*
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Date: 2010-04-21 02:14 am (UTC)And that? I don't care what age you grew up in, it's not professional. It's one thing to abbreviate in a forum that needs it (Twitter) or strongly encourages it (texting from phones without a full keyboard) and quite another to do so in a work email.
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