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Practically every email I've received in maybe the past year has started with "I hope you are well". I even had an LLM draft a placeholder email for me and it started with the same thing. This has not always been the case and it's strange to me that everyone I interact with begins their emails with this line. Frankly, it's annoying AF.

What gives? Who started this? Why has it become so prevalent? More importantly, how do we stop it?

While I'm at it, if you work in tech / customer support, I urge you to speak with your supervisors to minimize the boiler plate copy paste trash you insert into your emails. People dealing with shit that's not working as intended or desired do not have the mental or emotional capacity to wade through your platitudinal nonsense. Get to the fucking point.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Those bastards and their pleasantries eh

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry! I'll try to be more mean.

Have ~~a great~~ an okay weekend!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

may you live in interesting times

[โ€“] saltesc 2 points 7 months ago

Hi Jim,

Plans for the weekend? That's great to hear.

The annual report is blah blah blah...