If You Use These 5 Phrases in an Email, You Sound Passive Aggressive
These common email phrases make you sound petty
For better or worse, we live in our email inboxes. We get tons of emails every day.
Email is where business gets done. Relationships are formed. Information is communicated.
As a result, frustration and miscommunication can occur over email. Context and tone can be lost over email. This increases anxiety. Email is where hours are wasted, and emotions boil up.
Email is a place where people come across as passive aggressive.
Digital communication such as email is where people try to express their irritations and displeasures with situations.
There are five common phrases that people use in emails that come across as passive aggressive. Let's dive into what they are.
1. Per my last email
This phrase basically means that the recipient didn’t read the email, and you must pay attention. It can also mean, go back, and read my email and stop asking dumb questions. This phrase is for people who don’t communicate clearly in their emails.
In other words:
It’s not me; it’s you.
