AKA: Daily random thread: Baku doing the posting cuz nobody has invented automoderator for Lemmy yet

Edit: words

  • @MeanElevator@aussie.zone
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    231 year ago

    Got a message from my manager regarding a minor complaint made against me. Apparently I use big words in emails and some people find it intimidating.

    We had a good chuckle about it. I was hoping he’d tell me who it was so I could send that person a link to a dictionary/thesaurus page.

    • @dumblederp@aussie.zone
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      71 year ago

      Offer to meet the complainant in the thunderdome; or tell your manager that scary is a better word than intimidating.

      • @MeanElevator@aussie.zone
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        91 year ago

        I like this idea. In reality I’ll just use bigger and more obscure words (definitely throwing cromulent in there soon).

        Give them something to really complain about.

        • @T156@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Consider writing like an aggrieved Victorian aristocrat, or a protagonist in a Jane Austen novel.

          My dearest Human resources department,
                                               I am writing forthwith, to complain about the insinuation that I am to be considered intimidating with my extensive use of longer vocabulary. To wit, I should also like to raise a complaint of mine, such as is within my allowance, that there is an intimidating lack of long words used in workplace communications.
          
          Good day,
          Mean Elevator