“For better or worse, digital communication, whether it’s through email or direct messages on platforms like Slack, doesn’t let us see each other’s immediate reactions — which is why we look for ways to ‘politely’ express irritation,” WordFinder representative Joe Mercurio tells CNBC Make It. “As a result, employee frustration and miscommunication are at an all-time high, with tone alone being misinterpreted quite a bit in email communication.”
According to the findings here are the top 10 most passive-aggressive phrases in the workplace:
>Please advise >Noted >Friendly Reminder >Will do >Thanks in advance >Per our last conversation >Circling back >As per my last email >As promised >As discussed
'Friendly reminder' to all wage slaves, don't forget to use 'non-triggering' words in your internal communications.
>1 common action that makes you look aggressive in the workplace >mass shooting
Dominic Lewis
Okay, so be aggressive aggressive >Fucking tell me! >Shut up I KnOW! >If I have to tell you one more fucking time >Get off my back! >Do it or you're fired >I'm getting real sick of repeating myself. >Here bitch! >It's what you wanted
Frankly, I think if we went back to such language we would be the world's working boss again
James Bennett
>Will do That's the only I don't get. There's nothing fucking wrong with that unless the entire conversation/relationship is already in a negative context.
Jack Morgan
Friendly reminder to stay clear of all people and organizations who use the phrase "passive-aggressive".
Wyatt Campbell
It's useful to be aware of it though. Some retards don't even notice when it's being done to them.
I think I’ve only sent my boss maybe 3 emails. In one email I called him a “blind fuck” and his response called me a “cunt liver”.
Jose Morgan
Please advise
Aaron Jackson
lmao. I wish I could treat my coworkers like this.
They should have fucking fights on office floors to settle the passive aggressive shit that goes on in those places
Jackson Bennett
say aye-aye then. or 10-4, or roger
Aiden Cooper
You can't have it both ways you know. We aren't allowed to say these things, so we use the shit from the OP , but now we can't use that either since it hurts their feelings? There is no miscommunication here, I said "per my last email" because youre a cunt that tries to pull a fast one on me and copy your boss on too.
Kayden Lewis
I work for a German. We are both always professional and well-mannered in our conversations. It helps that we are both grown men and not some whiny bitches.
Aiden Kelly
It makes the last,y shits look bad. 20-50% of people aren't doing shit these days. They think they're immune to lay offs given worker shortage. They don't realize there's no demand of product for the last year and back orders have been filled.
Jaxon Davis
Lazy shits.
Brandon Thomas
Dream boss
Xavier Green
I use most of them and I don't care. Fuck them.
Jacob Wilson
what if want to be actively aggressive?
David Ward
I always start my sentences with "With all due respect" which everyone tacitly know means "You fucking retards".
Alexander Wilson
I’d say “will do” but I don’t want to be on a watchlist
Just memeing sirs
Tyler Stewart
I start with "Hope you find this mail in good health." It means I hope you all fucking die.
Daniel Ramirez
I will use them all from now on, thanks.
John Martinez
women in the workplace was a mistake
Ryan Richardson
I will do the needful sir.
Isaiah Mitchell
>some retard is too much of a coward to say what he thinks to my face >oh no its it's your job to decipher whatever *passive aggressive* babbling this retard shits No.
They are all phrases that are used to soften emails asking people for a second time to do their jobs. Everyone who uses these phrases is upset that you haven't done anything yet. People think these phrases are passive aggressive because they know they fucked up. This is pure projection, and I feel bad for the people who have to rely on these fuck-ups.
Dominic Barnes
You forgot my personal favourite: "Thank you for your anticipated co-operation in this matter.
OP is a faggot.
Luke King
Noted.
Jackson Bell
business communication in Japan works wonderfully because you fake extreme politeness even if you’re mad as hell and if the other guy fucks up you apologize to him for failing to remind him to not fuck up, usually this causes the other party to recognize their own guilt and immediately stop fucking up unless you are dealing with an American because he dindu nuffin or a German because ZIS IZ NOT ZE VEY ZAY OUR MANUAL SEZ IT ZHOULD BE DONE VHY DOES YOUR VAY OF DOINK IT DIFFER FROM ZE KORREKT VAY VITCH IZ ZE GERMAN VAY UND FURZHERMORE VHAT IZ EARZHQUAKE UND TYPHOON VE DONT KARE ABLUT ZUCH ZHINGS IN GERMANY, VHY IS YOUR FAZILITY SO HUMID IN ZE SUMMER IN GERMANY VE KEEP HUMIDITY VITHIN +/-0.3% ALL YEAR VHAT DO YOU MEAN MONZOON ZEASON VE DON’T KARE
Jaxon James
Lol I work from home for a big accounting firm and just steal their money by fucking about during the work day
Aiden Wilson
I refuse to be passive aggressive in the workplace.
I'm openly hostile and combative about everything.
I'm not being paid to make pleasantries with retarded children who can't tell the difference between a coat hanger and a picture hanger. You only get affirmation in the lowest amount of effort I am willing to spend on placating customers.
>Did you order this? >It's been seven days and one hour, we have a strict seven day holding policy, you product has been refunded and you have been charged a 15% restocking fee. >"So because I didn't pick up my order on time I'm being charge?" >Correct, you signed a contract when you placed the order. >"I want to speak to your manager." >I am the manager, what is the issue?
And then the buttmad starts. The majority of revenue I get is from fucking morons who are too retarded or lazy to read an agreement and just come get their bullshit. I do not run a storage unit, get your shit and fuck off.
The majority of my vocabulary is >Correct >No >Is this valid? >According to our records sir, you are not a woman and I will not address you as such. >I don't remember asking your opinion. >I am the manager.
No, I will not tell you where I work and yes, I really do speak to customers this way.
Ian Jones
Honorary aryan status revoked. yoroshiku onegaishimasu.
Ryan Gutierrez
>nigger women work
Henry Cruz
You got a lot of pent up frustration, user. I can feel it. It's palpable, like the humidity of a hot summer day. I'm a floridafag and am a little disappointed since we haven't had any 'canes at all this year so far.
Charles Lewis
Lol tell us how you really feel nip bro
Blake Baker
Kek this is reality.
Brandon Ramirez
>As per our last email, I will need your manager's sign off to unfuck your mistake this time. >CC:
I used to be like this when I was a manager at McDonald's. They wouldn't fire or even reprimand me because I was the only white guy there.
Ryder Bennett
>Japanese man trying to say sorry to me Ah! Sorry but you can't do that.
Easton Roberts
>proceeds to rage about the floor grade specification for the equipment installation not being within 0.002 degrees of perfect horizontal on a subtropical mountainside subject to category 5 typhoons and magnitude 9 earthquakes
Justin Lee
I use almost all of these except Friendly Reminder. My reminder is not friendly, it is objective. I have to speak this way because if I don't soften my language you'll screech to HR and try to get me fired. So I say >Please advise Instead of >The 17 paragraphs of nonsense you sent to my inbox at 5am is fucking incomprehensible. The most I was able to drive from your stream of consciousness drivel is that this needs to be done ASAP, which is identical to the last 34 emails you've sent me in the last 2 months. Being that we are all still employed and the lights are on, I can surmise this too has been lost in the translation from retard to English