like, let’s say i’m talking to my boss or a coworker through email!! and i type those emojis, like “u” or “:3” (those text emojis), would that be considered a bad idea?? i would use them because i would want people to know how i’m feeling through text and also because i think not using text emojis feels a bit empty, it maybe even makes the message sound rude or angry!! but i could not use emojis if it’s not a good thing
Animated stickers are the new meta, don’t be a boomer
:)
Yeah, that’d be pretty unprofessional.
It has been my experience that the best persona to use at work is one of no humanity. Be a corporate robot. When you walk in those doors, kill any sense of emotion. Look at everything logically. Make no friends. Focus on the tasks that your performance is measured. Leave no room for misinterpretation.
Most people are cool, but some are hunting for opportunities. Don’t give those people any opportunities.
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Only :) or :( are considered acceptable. And only in an informal context with work colleagues, never with anyone more than 1 step removed from you (meaning it might be ok with your supervisor if that’s the kind of relationship you have, but never with your boss’ boss). I don’t make the social rules, don’t @ me.
I only ever use :) myself. Can’t think of a work email where :( seems appropriate.
Another HR meeting at 9 :(
I have a tendency to give off a very unprofessional :| during these meetings, but that’s reserved for IRL only.
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Was the email subject of my last resignation.
Aaaaaaagh I quit my job two weeks ago, what a wasted opportunity
On Email? Never. Through messaging like microsoft teams with a coworker you already know? Sure. With your boss? Maybe not, but that depends on your boss. It’s pretty normal for work messages to be more bland, though.
I’m a boss I message my boss and my subordinates emojis and gifs all the time
But it still depends on the industry, the company culture, and the individual people. At my job, I can use emojis with basically anyone under the VP level, even my boss’s boss.
Emoji = picture Emoticon= text
In my experience the only ones that don’t look weird in a work email are:
:) :( ;)
Anything else is going to be seen as weird and superfluous. u :3 would be a hard no for myself, and I know it would get me weird attention that I wouldn’t want.
This very much depends on your industry, workplace, and coworkers.
Please don’t wink in a work context
Nah GTFO of here with that. I’ll follow my bosses lead, and wink. Context is everything of course, but if your workplace is so toxic that a winking emoticon sets off drama then I really feel sorry for you.
Quite the opposite, my workplace is pretty fun and we definitely don’t need to couch jokes in emoticons for safety. Maybe this is the same thing that requires people these days to use sarcasm tags.
Probably only your office could answer that and we don’t know them.
Never on external emails though.
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No, only stupid reaction GIFs are allowed at my company. If an emotion doesn’t involve sending multiple megabytes of data to every member in the conversation, it’s not worth expressing.
Note: Standards are higher for secretarial and HR staff. At least 20% of the gifs must have Minions in them.
It’s generally considered unprofessional, although depending on the environment.
Emails are permanent records. Your focus seems to be on how they sound to the initial recipient.
My concern is how they sound to the person reading them six months or two years later. What I have found is that the longer the delay between having written the email and it being read, the more pissed off the reader is when they are reading it. If the problem is big enough that they need to come back to me two years later, the reader is probably not going to appreciate the lighthearted jests I originally included.
My work emails with colleagues are brusque and formulaic. I don’t include enough content to even begin to guess at mood or emotional state.
I’m not saying you should use email this way. I’m saying that I have little use for adjectives, articles, and my recipients rarely have need for a scroll wheel. I can’t imagine ever using either an emoticon or an emoji in a work email.
I am not above the occasional :) with most of my coworkers, however anything more exotic than that would require a comfort level that I have with… none of them, really.
I’ve no idea what those emojis represent…
That said, if you wish to be understood, then you might consider expressing yourself with language that’s clearly understood.
Emojis in professional emails are very uncommon. Consider explaining how you feel with words instead. If chatting, then consider image emojis or only the most commonly understood simple text emojis. Uncommon or more recently developed emojis are more likely to be misunderstood and/or considered immature.
