12 Common Email Mistakes Solved
- Don’t email when you are angry. You should always wait a little while and calm down before sending an email. Often your feels can be misconstrued when you are upset and come across in the wrong way.
- Don’t ever send sarcastic emails that can be taken out of context. It is very hard to be funny or sarcastic in an email. It is very easy to offend someone in an email when you do not mean to do it.
- Don’t gossip in email. Talking about others and writing about others may come back to haunt you. You never know who the email can be forwarded too.
- Don’t ever break up with your significant other via email. Don’t leave a paper trail when you break hearts.
- Don’t ever send emails from work that you don’t want your boss to see because eventually your boss probably will see it.
- Don’t put anything in writing that may come back to haunt you.
- Don’t ever hit ‘reply all’ when you just want to send an email to one person
- Don’t ever email pictures of yourself to others. Don’t forget to attach your attachments before hitting send
- Don’t ever make any promises or commitments via email that you may not be able to keep.
- When sending an attachment, make sure that you have attached the correct attachment.
- According to Elliot Spitzer, the Governor of NYS and former Attorney General of NYS, “Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email.”
- Make sure you use your BigString recallable email. If you make any of the mistakes listed above, BigString’s recallable, erasable and non-forwardable features will allow you to correct any of the above errors.
