like, let’s say i’m talking to my boss or a coworker through email!! and i type those emojis, like “u” or “:3” (those text emojis), would that be considered a bad idea?? i would use them because i would want people to know how i’m feeling through text and also because i think not using text emojis feels a bit empty, it maybe even makes the message sound rude or angry!! but i could not use emojis if it’s not a good thing
It depends, as a general rule I would say that if you have to ask it’s better not. I send emojis to my colleagues, although usually just :) or :O but that’s about the same I send my wife so it’s mostly because I just don’t use too many emojis. I wouldn’t consider it unprofessional, but also I’m very open minded and also wouldn’t mind people using curse words which I know for sure others mind.
Animated stickers are the new meta, don’t be a boomer
It has been my experience that the best persona to use at work is one of no humanity. Be a corporate robot. When you walk in those doors, kill any sense of emotion. Look at everything logically. Make no friends. Focus on the tasks that your performance is measured. Leave no room for misinterpretation.
Most people are cool, but some are hunting for opportunities. Don’t give those people any opportunities.
Yeah, that’d be pretty unprofessional.
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Was the email subject of my last resignation.
Aaaaaaagh I quit my job two weeks ago, what a wasted opportunity
Only :)
or :(areis considered acceptable. And only in an informal context with work colleagues, never with anyone more than 1 step removed from you (meaning it might be ok with your supervisor if that’s the kind of relationship you have, but never with your boss’ boss). I don’t make the social rules, don’t @ me.I only ever use :) myself. Can’t think of a work email where :( seems appropriate.
Good point. I don’t think I’ve used :( myself either. I stand corrected.
Another HR meeting at 9 :(
I have a tendency to give off a very unprofessional :| during these meetings, but that’s reserved for IRL only.
On Email? Never. Through messaging like microsoft teams with a coworker you already know? Sure. With your boss? Maybe not, but that depends on your boss. It’s pretty normal for work messages to be more bland, though.
I’m a boss I message my boss and my subordinates emojis and gifs all the time
But it still depends on the industry, the company culture, and the individual people. At my job, I can use emojis with basically anyone under the VP level, even my boss’s boss.
Emoji = picture Emoticon= text
In my experience the only ones that don’t look weird in a work email are:
:) :( ;)
Anything else is going to be seen as weird and superfluous. u :3 would be a hard no for myself, and I know it would get me weird attention that I wouldn’t want.
This very much depends on your industry, workplace, and coworkers.
Please don’t wink in a work context
Nah GTFO of here with that. I’ll follow my bosses lead, and wink. Context is everything of course, but if your workplace is so toxic that a winking emoticon sets off drama then I really feel sorry for you.
Quite the opposite, my workplace is pretty fun and we definitely don’t need to couch jokes in emoticons for safety. Maybe this is the same thing that requires people these days to use sarcasm tags.
Probably only your office could answer that and we don’t know them.
Never on external emails though.
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No, only stupid reaction GIFs are allowed at my company. If an emotion doesn’t involve sending multiple megabytes of data to every member in the conversation, it’s not worth expressing.
Note: Standards are higher for secretarial and HR staff. At least 20% of the gifs must have Minions in them.
It’s generally considered unprofessional, although depending on the environment.
always follow your boss’s example.
generally speaking, I’d leave the emojis out. for one thing, there’s people who don’t know what they mean, or they maybe will just read into it wrong because they hate you. I remember sending an email to a coworker when I came back from a vacation and the general gist of it was “thanks for helping [this annoying client],” literally just a quick email to thank them and let them know that I was back. Yeah. with the way they went screaming to the boss, you’d have thought I told them to go fuck themselves with a rusty holedigger.
it’s bad enough when everything is in plain language. putting it in emoticons…? yeah. you’re asking for trouble.
And… What did the boss say?
Dunno.
Boss doesn’t criticize or give “corrections” in the open.
Knowing her probably told the other guy to stop being a drama queen.
I am not above the occasional :) with most of my coworkers, however anything more exotic than that would require a comfort level that I have with… none of them, really.
