Via Audacious Fox:
Let’s call this “boss email.” It’s defined by nearly immediate — but short and terse — replies. The classic two-word email. For underlings, it can be inscrutable. Is that an angry “thanks” or a grateful “thanks”? Does “please update me” imply impatience with you? Boss email can be the workplace equivalent of getting a “k” text reply from a Tinder date.
I do this quite a bit, but it depends upon the circumstance: Do I have comfortable supervisory relationship with this person? Is this a peer who won’t read into perfunctory replies? Then yes. And sometimes, I realize that really busy people don’t want to read a paragraph, and appreciate an abridged version. In that case? Also yes.