25 hilarious times when people proved work email culture to be ridiculous and useless
Email exchanges might be an important part of work culture, but they can spawn some hilarious moments as well.
Office employees might understand the plight of staying stuck in their cubicles six days a week, doing nothing but typing countless emails and reading through them. Moreover, emails not only allow for quick responses but ensure that we maintain track of all incoming and outgoing communications. Now, exchanging skilled emails has become a crucial part of every working professional's life. There is no denying or dodging that. Coming face-to-face with Microsoft Outlook each morning at work has become the norm for every corporate worker. Since the work environment requires people to be more professional with their text conversations and approaches, there is no room for emojis or memes to describe the exact feeling of an employee who has to send a well-crafted email.
So, for all the working professionals who are pulling their hairs out in frustration while typing away the umpteenth email of their day, we have combed through X (previously Twitter) to find equally exhausted employees who are simply done curating all the work emails that they are required to send for official purposes. Here is to hoping that these relatable tweets from strangers will help you realize that you are not the only one who feels dead inside while sending and receiving emails, which is a crucial part of your job. So scroll through and feel free to laugh at all the email errors and thoughts every employee gets while sending these business emails that unfortunately can't be simplified with humor.
1. Forgetting the spelling of your name
most embarrassing email exchange I ever had:
— Mo Weeks (@mo87mo87) January 28, 2020
- Sent an email
- They replied & called me "Mautice"
- I reply with a stink about how my name is properly spelled and that it's actually really important to me
- They told me to check my 1st email
- I had misspelled my own name
2. The tragedy of using MS Outlook
outlook: I'm the most powerful office tool ever made. I can search every email you've ever received and keep track of the meetings you have six months from now
— Janel Comeau (@VeryBadLlama) October 24, 2022
me: I would like to still view an attachment after someone replies to the email
outlook: [confused hissing]
3. Best way to transfer the burden of an email
When I sign an email “Yours” it’s not a term of endearment— it means this email is now yours I’m done with it get it away from me.
— Kate McKean (@kate_mckean) March 8, 2021
4. The dilemma of opening an email
I’m sorry I haven’t replied to your email but I glanced at it, vowed to deal with it later, and now the very thought of even opening it fills me with crippling dread.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) December 12, 2019
5. The email found us unwell
“I hope this email finds you well”
— Lux Lisbon (@dustinr3ed) May 9, 2023
How the email found me pic.twitter.com/cMohXxreB8
6. Hoping the email not to find you
I hope this email doesn't find you. I hope you've escaped, that you're free.
— c🐞 (@shesatornado) June 10, 2021
7. Honesty has no place in emails
My company does this icebreaker thing where every week a different person sends an email to the whole company talking about their average day, and today's coworker started his "I wake up each day furious to be laboring under capitalism" and it has caused quite a stir.
— Mr. Rate Limited (@pseudo310) September 3, 2021
8. To use it or to not use it?
There really needs to be a semi exclamation point for when a period conveys too little enthusiasm in a work-related email but using the full exclamation point makes you seem like a psychopath.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 19, 2018
9. Crafting an email is an art
Do you ever send a work email and re-read it and congratulate yourself on the masterpiece it was?
— Rutuja (@rutujax) January 18, 2023
10. A change might cost everything
Someone told me signing my emails with "Best" is passive aggressive so I'm changing it to "See you in hell" to eliminate any confusion
— Angela (@angelamarie85) May 18, 2021
11. Time to become a bee
I meant to sign off a work email like this:
— A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) (@JuliusGoat) March 30, 2019
“Best,”
but I typed
“Bees,”
and I panicked and doubled down on the mistake,
“I SAID bees, and I MEANT bees”
so I think now I have to spend the rest of my career pretending to be a mass of swarming bees wearing human clothes.
12. Changing the tone of the email
“Sorry for the reply delay!”
— ruby 🐊 (@roobeekeane) July 24, 2019
- predictable
- disorganised
- admits fault on your part
“in response to your premature email,”
- brazen
- establishes dominance
- might get fired, giving you more time to work on your series of crime novellas
13. Let the potato rest
Me when I get ten emails in a minute at work pic.twitter.com/aMNjqawvzp
— Christopher (@youngbuckeen) September 7, 2020
14. They don't understand vacations
anyone who sends a work email between Dec 25 and Jan 1 has got to be kidding me with this
— Aparna Nancherla 🇵🇸 (@aparnapkin) December 28, 2018
15. You can't be too confident in emails
“I’ve CC’d in my boss”
— ruby 🐊 (@roobeekeane) January 29, 2020
- professional
- corporate
- mildly threatening
“You wanna say that in front of Greg?”
- confident
- threat level 9000
- who is Greg and what is he capable of
16. Is it the same thing?
nooooo i just sent an email that said “as you mentioned in your precious email” instead of “previous email”. sick at myself
— Beth McColl (@imbethmccoll) March 2, 2021
17. More hatred for MS Outlook
Microsoft outlook is awesome because it’s like. what if we made the worst email platform in the world and then forced everyone to use it for work and school
— Gabrielle Drolet (@gabrielledrolet) August 31, 2022
18. America works differently
Europeans' out of offices are like "I will not be working until 18 September. All emails will be automatically deleted."
— Leanna Orr (@LeannaO) July 10, 2020
Americans: "I am in the hospital. Email responses may be delayed by up to 30 mins. Sorry for the inconvenience! If urgent, please reach me in the ER at..."
19. A picture speaks a thousand words
Somedays I just want to reply emails with “ok” and this picture: pic.twitter.com/j0TXrVtkOw
— Mirelle Ortega (@moxvi_) April 1, 2020
20. Both are equally terrible
me in a meeting: “this could’ve been an email”
— hailee (@haileehenson) June 30, 2021
me receiving an email: “i’m going to hurl myself into the sun”
21. That's what our degrees are worth
my brother asked my dad what I do for work and he said “send and receive emails”
— Shakira (@jodecicry) January 29, 2021
22. That might be a risk
Replying “that sounds like a you problem” to every work related email as a social experiment
— jon drake (@DrakeGatsby) August 30, 2021
23. We hope this person bagged the job
Applied for a job and got this email back pic.twitter.com/6zI3cBnTLD
— hev (@Heathernab) February 6, 2015
24. Absolutely!
Wait how did jobs work before email… like did you just get home from work and… work was over ?
— michaela okland (@MichaelaOkla) March 5, 2023
25. Let the email sink in
The best email signature I've ever seen:
— Lucy Hunt (@lucy_hunt) December 10, 2020
"It is normal for me to take 2 days to read my emails and 2 more days to reflect on the matter and respond calmly. The culture of immediacy and the constant fragmentation of time are not very compatible with the kind of life I lead."
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