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I have to say this is mostly referring to business / work emails...

Recently I find more people sending an email to my department (Facilities) with nothing listed in the body of the email, and all the information in just the SUBJECT line.

Does anyone else experience this, and does it drive you crazy?

Yes, and yes

I've noticed this.
Sometimes I'll send it back with the note that something must've happened to their message because it didn't come through.

SMLCHNG wrote:I have to say this is mostly referring to business / work emails...

Recently I find more people sending an email to my department (Facilities) with nothing listed in the body of the email, and all the information in just the SUBJECT line.

Does anyone else experience this, and does it drive you crazy?

yep.. and I have company email now..

Dezdmona wrote:I've noticed this.
Sometimes I'll send it back with the note that something must've happened to their message because it didn't come through.

If it was sent to me? I'd sure has heck do that, but it goes to my whole department, so I can't.

ragtopW wrote: yep.. and I have company email now..

You do?? Kewl. Are you on the Global Address Book?

Yes, and yes as HOG said.

I can't stand it. I also can't stand that people are writing business communcations and not bothering to use spell check. I also find it deplorable that people send business communications with a picture of Winnie the Pooh in their signature line. There's nothing wrong with Pooh Bear (it works great as a screen name, for instance! ) but his picture does NOT belong in the signature of a professional communication. And with this we have not even begun to clip the tip of the iceburg of what Auntie thinks is the beginning of the downfall of society.

phjrsaunt wrote:Yes, and yes as HOG said.

I can't stand it. I also can't stand that people are writing business communcations and not bothering to use spell check. I also find it deplorable that people send business communications with a picture of Winnie the Pooh in their signature line. There's nothing wrong with Pooh Bear (it works great as a screen name, for instance! ) but his picture does NOT belong in the signature of a professional communication. And with this we have not even begun to clip the tip of the iceburg of what Auntie thinks is the beginning of the downfall of society.

depends. If you work for Suebee Honey.. Pooh might be an acceptable sig line addition

I don't use e-mail, the internet, or a computer so I can't respond to this posting.

C-Dawg wrote:yes, it p1sses me off and I tend to ignore them and when asked if I got it, tell them "yes, I got an email, but it was empty so I deleted it". tends to p1ss them off as much as their initial email did to me

I do that, too.

Uh oh ... I sometimes do this in personal chatty emails to friends ...

We can't IM at work so we sometimes use the subject line of email instead.

I've never done it in a professional email though.

MY personal pet peeve is when you get those email jokes and they are not cleaned up at all. Paragraphs and paragraphs and paragraphs of email addresses with notes and messages interspersed and the joke is WAY down at the bottom, or embedded in 10 pages you have to open before finding it.

That's bad, but doesn't bug me as much as a lack of subject line in the email does.

The accountant in charge of HR at the last company I worked for ALWAYS did that- you could never tell if the lunch truck was outside or if it was something that genuinely needed attention.

I've gotten that one time earlier this month from a friend, and it struck me as odd. Maybe it's some new trend. It was like:

"When is our next book club meeting and what book did we decide to read?"

I replied, changing the subject line to Book Club.

I don't think it would bother me if it was something short and to the point like the above. I couldn't imagine if it was a longer message!

What irks me more is NOTHING in the subject line, which almost everyone is guilty of one time or another.

Coconuts wrote:That's bad, but doesn't bug me as much as a lack of subject line in the email does.
The accountant in charge of HR at the last company I worked for ALWAYS did that- you could never tell if the lunch truck was outside or if it was something that genuinely needed attention.

GPHMTA!

No and if so, we usually send it back saying if they could update it if we cannot do anything with that email.

No subject line at all bugs me. I usually add one in the reply also.

Our "subject line messages" are usually very short. For instance if several of us are planning to eat lunch together, someone may email everyone at once and say ... "ready to go?"

....and then there's the person who sends us a lot of email inquiries (she's the Admin person for her office). EVERY email she sends has the "urgent" exclamation point flag on it. Doesn't matter if it's a question that truly is urgent or something not so important. Grrr...

PHarmGirl wrote:No subject line at all bugs me. I usually add one in the reply also.

Our "subject line messages" are usually very short. For instance if several of us are planning to eat lunch together, someone may email everyone at once and say ... "ready to go?"

For me, it's more for those who send business related emails without a subject line.