Exit
eWISE
My supervisor recently
sent a company-wide email
praising a project that I worked
on and cc’d me. I appreciated the
recognition, but he used my personal email address rather than
my work one. I have no doubt that
the mix-up was was an accident,
but I don’t want my personal
email address to pop up in another widely distributed thread.
Is there a nice way to tell him to
save my work address only in his
contacts? — Keeping things
separate, New York
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Q
Just respond to him from
your work address and thank
him for his kind words. He ma y
realize his error and he may not.
If you start critiquing people’s
compliments, you may find you
start receiving fewer of them.
You should be glad if any of your
coworkers read the email before
deleting it, not worried that they
will start using your personal address for work or anything else
unwelcome. It’s better not to email
your supervisor from a personal
address in the first place, unless
it’s something urgent when you
can’t access work email. You never
know when auto-fill will lead you
to send him something that should
have never crossed the
work-life boundary.
A
Have a question about electronic etiquette?
Email [email protected].
ENOUGH
ALREADY
totally over.
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09.09.12