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It’s because the higher you are in the chain of corporate command, the less time you have to dedicate to each task. You end up with shorter answers to every not
by illusive4080 8mo ago
It’s because the higher you are in the chain of corporate command, the less time you have to dedicate to each task. You end up with shorter answers to every note because you wouldn’t have time to reply to all notes and do the strategic things you need to do, otherwise.
As an individual contributor on a team, you may have to interface at most with 30 people on a weekly basis. As a second line leader you may have 150 people under your purview, and another 50 outsiders you have to talk to. You can’t scale the amount of time you have, so you scale the amount of time you spend on replies.
- _whiteCaps_ 8mo agoShorter answers don't necessitate terrible grammar. Maybe it's because my mom was a teacher and I had good grammar drilled into me, but I feel like it shows respect for the people you're communicating with.
- makeset 8mo ago> respect for the people you're communicating with That is exactly why executive grammar is so bad.
- rbonvall 8mo agoThat doesn't explain the "punctuating with multiple cryface emojis".
- LambdaComplex 8mo agoUsing the example from the article: "K let circle back nxt week bout it . thnks" I'm not buying your argument. The amount of additional time that it would have taken to write that same message with proper grammar and spelling is minuscule.
- arduanika 8mo agoThe boss was following Strunk & White's advice to omit needless letters.
- LeonB 8mo agoYou must be referring to the abridged Strnk n Wyt
- cracki 8mo agotyped on a phone, so unlikely to have been at the office.
- exegete 8mo agoYou have to deliberately turn off autocorrection on most phones
- Hnrobert42 8mo agoI hare auto correct. It ducks me over all the time.
- maplethorpe 8mo agoThat depends on your typing ability. My mother only looks up at the end of the sentence to see if she hit all the right keys.
- marcellus23 8mo agoI'm not sure that's a literal quote from their boss. It seems to be an illustrative example, probably exaggerated.
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