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Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:43 pm
by Q.
I always end my emails with

Regards
REB








I've been here too long...

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:00 pm
by RustyCage
To me "Yours faithfully" and "Yours sincerely" sound forced and contrived at the best of times.

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:13 pm
by Failed Creation
I think it all depends on the context of the email, as well as your audience.

For example, I wouldn't use a formal sign-off when emailing friends, whereas I would if I was corresponding with prospective employers.

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:19 pm
by Brodlach
I always have Kind Regards but I do add Cheers to some more informal clients

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:48 pm
by HH3
I think "Yours Sincerely" and "Yours Faithfully" sound ridiculous.

At my first job in a financial planning firm, they told me I had to use "Kind Regards". I never got why. Our clients were from the better off parts of town though. That may have had something to do with it.

It all sounds fake and a little bit condescending. 99% of people would never use those phrases in any other part of their lives.

I say "cheers" all the time, so I use it in my emails.

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:51 pm
by dedja
Hey HH3,

Go and get faarked.

Kind Regards,
Dedj


Yeah, spot on, doesn't sound right ...

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:57 pm
by HH3
Hi Dedja

Thank you for your prompt response.

Cheers
HH3

See! Sounds friendlier.

BUT!!! I draw the line at people putting smiley faces in work emails. I tend to get them from younger females. Grow up :)

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:55 pm
by RustyCage
Is Johnny Haysman still around the place?

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 8:16 am
by Booney
Typically I start emails with "Hi" or if more formal (or I'm sticking it up* someone) I use "Good morning/afternoon...."

My electronic signature has "Regards,....." embedded in it prior to my details, but at times I will end with "Cheers" prior to that so the person can see I've been a little more personal and addressed them direct.

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I also had a previous workmate to answered the phone with "Welcome to...", man that shit me.

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:23 pm
by Psyber
pafc1870 wrote:To me "Yours faithfully" and "Yours sincerely" sound forced and contrived at the best of times.

They are - but they are also the correct formal endings for formal and business letters.
I don't use them in any other context.

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 8:46 pm
by dedja
what is the origin of the term 'numbnuts'?

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 9:02 pm
by Dissident
I'm not sure, though I remember it from Full Metal Jacket.

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:19 pm
by dedja
why is it funny when someone gets kicked in the nuts?

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 7:53 am
by Johno6
because we know how much it would hurt
and we are glad its not us

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 7:58 am
by woodublieve12
Is Lucas Neil the biggest sook in Australia sport at the moment?

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 8:48 am
by Booney
woodublieve12 wrote:Is Lucas Neil the biggest sook in Australia sport at the moment?


He is, but's let us not forget just how precious professional athletes are.

Poor souls, all that money to stay super fit and do what they love, travel the world, barely put their hand in their pocket for anything, ever and then on top of that they have to tolerate being "booed" from time to time. Not because the public want to "boo" them as such, but there's no chance of scaling the ivory tour to actually speak to them so "booing" from the terraces is the only way the public can voice displeasure at comments they have made during those ever so tiresome 15 minute pressers.

Oh how my heart ******* bleeds.

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 5:57 pm
by Q.
who the **** is RustyCage?

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:10 pm
by Dogwatcher
...why I thought it would be a good idea to drink scotch, cider, Pale Ale, 50 Lashes ale, skittle bombs, a gas chamber and some other blue shit with absinthe and pineapple juice in it late on a Sunday arvo.

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:43 pm
by RustyCage
Q. wrote:who the **** is RustyCage?


pafc1870

Re: I need to know....

PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:59 pm
by Brodlach
Q. wrote:who the **** is RustyCage?

Even he doesn't want to be associated with One Club anymore ;)