Along the lines of "Per my last email..."

How often has this happened to y'all? A co-worker sends you an email asking two simple questions. You answer these two questions with two single-sentence bullets. The co-worker responds with something like, "Thank you for answering my first question. Do you have an answer for my second question?"

This has happened to me several dozen times since email was invented.

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My personal favorite:

Quote:

Thanks for your feedback. I'll be sure to keep it in mind.

I used it frequently, but lately I'm just ignoring those kind of feedback e-mails... not a good thing to do, as they tend to come back with more boldness.

@fel3: I usually suffer from the opposite case, I've learned the hard way that when asking a two part question you always get answered only one part. Now I always numerate every question and try to write them as simple as possible, better if you can make them a Yes/No answer.

I write two short emails. One for each question, or response.
I like to phone them, or make a personal appearance, verbally respond and leave their email thread hanging in the wind.

noted

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Along the lines of "Per my last email..."

How often has this happened to y'all? A co-worker sends you an email asking two simple questions. You answer these two questions with two single-sentence bullets. The co-worker responds with something like, "Thank you for answering my first question. Do you have an answer for my second question?"

This has happened to me several dozen times since email was invented.

At a previous employer, where my job frequently required layman-level explanations of detailed technical problems, I experienced this A LOT. Multiple times a day.

I quickly became famous for my method of response. If a question was clearly answered in a previous email, I would take a screencap of the previous email, add a big red arrow with a drop shadow pointing to the answer, and then send that as a response to the second asking of the same question.

Petty, perhaps, but after a few weeks of this, people started actually reading my emails, which was nice.

SwinnyGG,

I started using electronics bulletin board systems back in the eighties. I was using email in the mid-nineties. I am used to bottom posting on emails. A few years ago, I was told I was confusing people with this. Nowadays, people expect the message to be at the top of the email, and the quoted text at the bottom.

A lot of people do not search down through the quoted text these days.

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JHG

Recently I asked the sales reps of three manufacturers two perfectly clear questions. Two of them answered the first one and ignored the second. One of them asked me to tell them exactly what I had told them in the second question.

The third rep ignored both questions and asked me what I wanted. I complained about it as nicely as I could. The sales manager must have seen it. He wrote back answering my request for a quote. It was about twice as high as it should have been.

Obviously, he either thought you were an obvious troublemaker or he didn't want the work.

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noted

This! I saw this a lot when reviewing drawing/calculation comments. I use it a lot instead of cussing or complaining, mostly sarcastically.

Ha,

I use that when responding to comments sometimes as it is very ambiguous.

Really means "I don't agree with you, but I don't want to have a fight about it, but neither am I going to change anything.... And all in one word!

Remember - More details = better answers
Also: If you get a response it's polite to respond to it.

First one on the list was a home run for me...

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I’m a little confused
absolute rage masked as professional pleasantry

" We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know." -- W. H. Auden

stick around here for awhile, you'll get it all ...
1) honest to goodness help,
2) well intentioned sarcasm,
3) all manner of spleen and bile and vitriol.

You'll get this posting questions and responding to (often inappropriate) questions.

another day in paradise, or is paradise one day closer ?

Not really and email phrase, but related...

Once sent an email with about 10 questions about a project I was designing.

Salesman replied "Yes to all"

Build the machine to that information, and it's wrong...
Turns out he was reading his email on his phone, and didn't scroll down and see the other questions.

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one of my favourites, "...by copy of this to ???, I'm asking them to..."

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I wish you luck on your journey... that's quite an inspiration; you're doing great. BPS (Big Purple Stars) to you.

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