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Tova:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 09 Apr 2019, 11:44 ---"To whom it may concern" doesn't register as rude for me, but it does kinda sound like you're crashed on a desert island and are putting a letter in a bottle.
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It's pretty outmoded now. It's better now to address the letter as specifically as possible. If you can't find out who to address your letter to, go with "Dear hiring manager" or something.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Case on 09 Apr 2019, 06:24 ---Formal settings - and written conversation count as highly formal, as they cannot transport gesture & mimics - require more adherence to proper protocol, not less. As I said above, I vividly remember the first exchange that omitted the greetings & goodbyes years after the fact, and wondering what I'd done to offend the offender.
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A complication I have encountered when using French on the internet, is offending some French people by being too formal. Learning French purely in a formal, classroom situation (and often only getting speaking practice addressing the teacher), I am much more at home in the formal "vous" form of French than the intimate "tu". Also, I was taught that prematurely attempting to tutoyer was just asking for a snub*, but some French internet people insist on it, even on first encounter. With my French being as bad and rusty as it is, half the time I can't remember the tu form of the verb. Culture is complicated...
*Par exemple:
"Peut-on se tutoyer?"
"Si vous voulez..."
LTK:
As Recursive Oscar Wilde once said: "Everything in moderation, including moderation, including moderation in moderation, including moderation in moderation in moderation, including..."
Grognard:
The department which encompasses my IT team has been contracted out.
the quintuple x5 layers of useless government civilians will be replaced by General Dynamics IT.
So my company will become a subcontractor on a contract to which we are the Prime.
*makes my head hurt*
but in an effort to save money, you'd think the DoD would thin out all the Gov Civ overhead.
Nope. My team, who are in the trenches, doing ALL the work... is getting cut by HALF.
fuck these people.
I'm so outta here.
I spent the last two years to get here.
I'm NOT starting from scratch again.
Cornelius:
Welcome to government services, where your management has absolutely no idea what you're doing, and only looks at the numbers they like to decide on savings.
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