The communication skills new employees lack

[Svartalf]

I've noticed a lack of writing skills.

I find that especially with email communications, people are horrible at written communications. I don't know how many times I've gotten single word replies to emails that posed multiple questions. I have often gotten vague and poorly written emails that do not even qualify complete sentences.

I think there needs to be some sort of etiquette created for emails -- a format that would govern business emails so that there is mention of the name of the person one is emailing, return contact information, and a reasonable format that separates sentences and groups them into paragraphs.

You mean people don't respond to your emails by chopping them up line by line and responding to each individual sentence? For shame!

By the time they'd finished your email it was probably 4:55 and they were ready to go home.

You're can be very hurtful, Huxley.

Had he not been, I would have, most of your posts end up tl:dr with me, even though you're not the kind of poster I actively want to put on my ignore list.

[Coito ergo sum]

Yeah, but you're French, which is far worse.

[Clinton Huxley]

Yeah, but you're French, which is far worse.

Haha, the "oldest allies" are fighting......

[Coito ergo sum]

Yeah, but you're French, which is far worse.

Haha, the "oldest allies" are fighting......

Do I detect some jealousy? Now now, children. Brits, you have a "special relationship" with the US, and the French can be the "oldest ally." We love you both equally. Now run along, and play pretend foreign relations for a while before dinner....

But, technically, the treaty of alliance with the French was in like 1776, so that was pre-United States. If we are including pre-US treaties than I believe our oldest allies would be the Iroquois, Shawnee and Lenape-Delaware nations, who loyally sided with the American colonies in the French and Indian Wars of the 1750s. It's not surprising, though, that Kerry would forget the first peoples when announcing who our oldest ally was....

[Svartalf]

I hear Achilles had a "special relation" with Patroclos too.

[Coito ergo sum]

We gave the Brits a "special relationship" because we heard that's what they're used to from boarding school....