Corporate Emails!

Fred tells us the most common corporate slang!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You guys know how I feel about corporate buzz terms.
I can't stand the corporate buzz term. It drive me
absolutely nuts. And then which and it's like, I swear
that like our our CEO and our CFO, they make
them up. I think they make them up on calls
just to watch everybody else beneath them repeat what they heard.

(00:21):
You know, the guys at the top say, because everything
that just like everybody does what those two guys do,
They dress, how those two guys dress, they act, how those.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Two they use the same words.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Those two Like if one of those two guys says,
you know, they can totally make it up.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
They could be like, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
It sounds like we're chasing around the dragon again today,
and then all day long it'll be, hey, we gotta
stop chasing around the dragon. Fred, We're chasing around the dragon,
you know, and it's it's it's eating its tail. That's
not a real thing, but they said it just to
see if everybody else will say it. Well, now we
have these are corporate email lines that are most used,

(01:02):
and I'm guilty of at least one of them, I
have to say, so I'm part of the problem. But
these these are things that you see in emails that
are most likely to show up, and most of them
annoy me. And I'm guilty of at least one reaching out.
Oh I'm reaching out.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh yeah, well.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
That's implied, I think in the fact that you wrote
me an email, So I think that I think we did.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's cool, we.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Got that, you know, like when an email that I'm
reaching out, right, but when the email arrived, you reached out, Like,
so the reaching is out in the reaching has taking place.
Following up Now, following up is a passive aggressive way
of saying you didn't respond to me. Now, I don't
really mind that one, because I don't know how you.

(01:45):
I don't know what you really say to get someone
to like read your email that you wrote that you
actually need a response to because you have to do
your job. So I don't know what you're supposed to
say there. But follow up, check in, check in. That's
number three. Isn't that kind of like is that like
reaching out?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's kind of like a mixture of following up and
reaching out.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, I'm shuking in on this.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Aligned aligned to number four. The most used phrases and
emails business emails, please advise. The one that I'm guilty
of is hope you're doing well or hope all is well?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Like that.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I'm guilty of that, but I mean it when I
write that. I mean it too, like I mean when
I you.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Know, like exactly like Shelby from Accounting, I really do
hope you're well. Sometimes I don't hope you're well. I'm sorry,
but like.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
You knowing to say, but I'm so guilty of that one.
I hope you're doing well, hope this email finds you well,
hope all is well? E meet like to meet you,
like evirtually meet you?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Do say that yeah, oh, because I don't want to say,
like if someone brings you in with a new person,
you're not gonna be like nice to meet you because
I haven't really met you yet. It's nice to me.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
I feel like eighty percent of the people I deal
with I've never actually met these. I mean I think
or I've met like very briefly casually, like think about
I mean, all of you guys in the room, I
deal with you, but I see you, I know you.
But I'm trying to think the other people I email with,
many of whom I don't even they don't live in
this city. I don't know, I don't. I don't see
them very often, so I don't need to meet you.
I'm I already met, we've met.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's fine.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
And circle back number ten, circle back, no, no, circle back, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
You don't want you don't want to get circled back. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
To understand why these lines persist and learn why so
many of them great on people's nerves, they ask business
leaders which corporate faces phrases they'd most like to eliminate
from the inbox.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Quick question, let's circle.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Back per my last email and bandwidth are the top
things there? Per My last email is another way of
and that's a little bit more aggressive.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
It's les passive aggressive.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's another way of saying you didn't read the last one,
or like, did you read the last one because I'm
going to tell you what I said one more time?
Or why didn't you write me back because in the
last one I told you is what I need you
to do.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, I've stopped, are coming back, and I think I've
just like I don't know, maybe got a little bit
more savage in my old age. But I'll respond to
my initial email that you didn't answer and just copy
the same thing, repaste it and sunned.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh wow, that's an assault me again.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Wow, answer my email. So I'm going to send the
exact same thing again and maybe this time you will.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think I've done that too, though, where it's like
this one here you mean because oh you know what else.
That's my favorite thing to do when someone claims it
like either you didn't write the email, or there's no
way they could have gotten it, or like maybe you
had the wrong email. Like the ultimate flex is then
to be like, well, actually, and I suppose it's possible
they didn't get it, but like if everything I did

(04:45):
was correct, ninety nine percent of the time, it was
there and you just pretended like you didn't see it.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Right.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is my mom's new favorite thing. When she gets frustrated,
it just doesn't care. You'll be like, well I didn't
get that. Oh oh you didn't get the text message.
You just didn't just didn't go. It just didn't come.
It just it just it just it. I love my
mom so much, but that is that is your thing now,

(05:13):
is with with anything technological email text, Like if she
doesn't feel like dealing with it, she just didn't get it.
And it's like, but but you what, one hundred percent
got it? Like it's the internet, Okay, It's like the
most basic form of technology is email and text and
you received it, like I didn't send you a major
motion picture like I said, like, you know what I mean,

(05:35):
you got it.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Protect your piece, queen, thank you. You're I'm the queen
right protect my piece.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
I'm talking to her.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know, I love a Look, I'm not dealing with that.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
I didn't see it. Parking tickets, tex stuff like they
just send out a new text to bill to my
house girl. I'm not dealing with that right now. Like
I got too much going on, literally, you know what.
Protect your piece?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
No, but you're you're unpre protecting. I'm I'm unprotected. Okay,
I'm unprotected. When you are protecting your piece by ignoring
something that is important, you will be okay.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Whatever it is, you will be okay. You will probably
figure it out if I give you a little time.
That's why I had to stop doing it, because in
the pandemic, I had gotten so afraid of everything that
I would respond like before you even press sing, like
I'm like Oh my god, I gotta respond to this
right away. I gotta be on what is this thing
Jason that we the teams teens all day?

Speaker 2 (06:27):
My must be green this new me and bro.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Look, hey, I'll get back to you when I get
when I get the mental capacity to deal with.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
You, I will get there.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'm not finding right away.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
You can wait. I barely know how to work teams.
I don't. I don't love that for you. It's an
emergency situation. It's I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
It is traumatizing, triggering, like if I hear it now,
I'm layers of communication.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
We've got email, we've got teams, and we have messaging
within teams.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
And then why about that?

Speaker 1 (06:55):
And then we have now we can like and unlike
and thumbs up with an emails and it's just too
many layers.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's just too many layers. How do you at our names?

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Because every time I write at one of your names
on my phone, it.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Doesn't do it.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Oh, it a lyrics on a computer for me, I've
been trying.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
To do that little trick.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
You do, like like this is your question, this is.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, No, I like that. I love that. I look
for my part. I'm like I'm talking to you an email.
I hope, I hope today finds you well.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
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