Originally Posted by
Mantra
Yeah, this is why it takes me like 25 minutes to compose minor work emails these days. I sit there fretting over all this subtle tonal stuff.
What's your preferred signing-off phrase? Personally, I just can't get into "sincerely." Seems overly formal and old fashioned somehow. I tend to go with a simple "Thanks," but sometimes I feel like that sounds weird when there's nothing in the email that I should be thanking them for, as in: "No, so far the Gen Ed department hasn't reached out to me about that...Thanks." What am I thanking this person for, especially since he was the one who first emailed me? Makes no damn sense.
A woman in the IT department once used "With tender regard" as her sign off, which I found hilarious given that the email was mundane as shit, something about the site being down for a few hours over the weekend for server stuff.