Boss scolds 29-year-old employee for being too direct in emails: 'The emails were literally things like: “Hi, can you send the updated file when you get a chance?”'

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• If you've ever been referred to as a “wet blanket” in the office, you know that it can negatively impact your career. If you never say yes to getting drinks with your coworkers after work, you might just get passed up for your next promotion, even if your work is better than everyone else's. You would think that if you worked a remote position, office politics wouldn't affect you, but it still can! The employee in this story has worked in his remote position for the past year, and his boss recently scolded him for not being “nice enough” in his emails. What a joke!

• My boss scheduled a meeting to discuss my “tone” in emails

  

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• Either his coworkers are just overly sensitive, or they've never been in an environment where a colleague has communicated with them directly and professionally. Those are the only possible explanations for this misunderstanding.

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• A coworker sending a message with too many emojis would come off to me as more passive-aggressive than the messages he was sending. If you're so happy, why do you need emojis to communicate that? And if they already perceive him as passive-aggressive, I don't think adding emojis will help his case.

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