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I always let at least 1 other person proofread my text messages to any kind of professional contact

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Remember to check that you didn't sign off with "Kind retards".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Once I started an email to a client with, "Hell Janice,".

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

... And then click send, and check what you just sent.

[–] nifty 4 points 11 months ago

And it’s still wrong or unclear somehow.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Im in this Picture and I dont like it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Sending attachments puckers my butthole. So many times there has been horny right next to what I need. I freeze and don't touch anything, make the next move very slow and sure. It's important not to fall into target fixation though.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Sales-Report.pdf
Salivating-Sluts-7.mp4

It could happen to anyone.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It would help if I just named everything that well. Everything on my pc is just a random mishmash of numbers and letters, or some naming scheme I came up with and can't remember how to decipher. CBT247domFFM is actually the finalized financial marks document for counter balance transactions from the 24th of july.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You name your files with hungarian notation?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Where in SharePoint can I find either of those files? 😈

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My dude you need to learn about folders

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Downloads is technically a folder

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Gotcha, Downloads and Downloads(1)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Separate Folders!!!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

this hits deep as someone who is a compulsive checker

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yup. But on the upside I also never messed up a dd command. So there is that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

And yet you still forget the attachment because you spent too long proofreading the email.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I actually sent the opposite of a motivation letter and got into pretty hot water because I didn't proof read the sent document.

Boy did I get into hot waters that week

[–] oyfrog 9 points 11 months ago

One problem I used to have was using the wrong email address to send work-related stuff. Now, work stuff lives in outlook and my personal stuff lives in whatever non-outlook email client doesn't suck.

This is not to say outlook is great—i fucking hate it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I do this too because every other word in my head is vulgar.