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'What The F**k Does It Mean?': 8 Email Phrases Your Co-Workers Secretly Hate

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Though a Harris Poll survey suggests workers burn out after about 50 emails a day, most of us receive far, far more than that.

So, it’s no wonder workers have a lot of thoughts on how the messages hurled into their inboxes daily are worded.

In a post shared to , for instance, Redditor wrote: “For some reason, ‘warm regards’ really pisses me off and I have no idea why.”

They then asked members of the forum for more “email phrases” that they find themselves “irrationally triggered by”. Here are some of the most upvoted responses...

1) ”‘Urgent’ pasted on every single email from the same person every day.”

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″‘Urgent’ is so overused at my job that I miss actually time-sensitive emails because I’ve become desensitised to it,” agreed.

“It’s just shameless self-promotion by the sender and floods my inbox with nonsense.”

2) “‘…’ being used in........

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