What your Email Signature Says About you
Your communication style is unique to you, and the little details give signals to the world about who you are. So what does your email sign-off tell others about your personality? Here's the 100% accurate, scientifically-proven* Stage Light Guide to What Your Email Sign-Off Says About You:
Sincerely: You stayed after class in seventh grade to help the teacher clean the chalkboards.
Best: You spend 10 minutes optimizing the number of exclamation points in each and every email, for peak friendliness and minimal crazy person vibes.
Warmly: You bake excellent cookies. Everyone in your life cherishes you and would die for you.
Thanks: You’re a go-with-the-flow kind of person. After-work drinks? Sure. McDonald’s at the staff meeting? Sounds good. Sky diving? Yeah, why not?
Thanks…: Your co-workers can’t tell if you’re mad at them, or just distracted.You show up at parties, eat some cheese, and leave. When someone asks about your weekend, you just say “It was good.” People who sign their emails with “best” are terrified of you.
Yours Truly: You are a character created by one of the Brontë sisters. You don’t actually send emails; you write letters in passionate, tortured long-hand while sitting alone in an old house on a moor.
Just your first name: You’re the kind of person who never apologizes about their house being messy. You have an incredible life story that nobody knows about, not because it’s a secret but just because it “hasn’t come up.”
No salutation; just your first, middle and last initials, in lowercase letters: You are my grandfather. I miss you so much, you beautiful weirdo.
An inspirational quote: You have family photos all over your office. You have a cat named Maya Angelou. Phone calls with you take at least 45 minutes because you need to give all the details of your family trip to Florida.
We hope this guide has been both helpful and illuminating. If you disagree with how others interpret your email sign- off…well, we don't make the rules.
*This guide may not be accurate or scientifically-proven
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