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Remember when email seemed like such a wonderful invention? "It'll make work communication so much easier," they said. Fast forward to today, and most of us break into a cold sweat just hearing the ping of a new message. From the dreaded "per my last email" passive-aggression to that moment of panic when you realize you hit "Reply All" on something decidedly personal, the work email experience unites us all in collective trauma.

Then there's the special joy of returning from vacation to find 287 unread messages, most of which are just people replying "Thanks!" to entire distribution lists. This collection of brilliantly funny posts captures everything we've thought but never said about our daily email battles, from cryptic one-word responses from the boss to the mysterious colleague who feels compelled to use seventeen different fonts in a single message.

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    #3

    Man in a field smiling with a cigar, embodying work-email-jokes by ignoring a work email.

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    Petra Peitsch
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    4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My boss just learnt over 1 year to come in the kitchen, and say to me personally, what did he want, because I'm surely not checking even weekly my e-mail dedicated just for some work-related BS.

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    Fashion show judge humorously deciding punctuation for work-email-jokes on a panel.

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    Blue Bunny of Happiness
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    3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup. I also seem to have forgotten how paragraphs work I start a new one for each sentence in the hope that my colleagues will actually read the information….

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    #9

    Twitter post about work email jokes, expressing frustration when a quick response comes back unexpectedly.

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    Petra Peitsch
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    4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was my exact strategy, when I was working office-job, back in time. Always through the ball back, if some b.tch entitled enough to think, they are right to send you an "emergency"-e-mail, right before your 10-15 minutes of a Friday office-job afternnoon ends.

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    Tweet joking about Microsoft Outlook in a work-email-jokes context.

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    Petra Peitsch
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    4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've never used it. And I was doing office-administrative jobs too. None of them were using outlook. Had their own systems, better than that s.hit.

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    #17

    Social media post about adding humor to work emails with the phrase "...If you even care."

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    Petra Peitsch
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    4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't ... even for open my work-related e.mail for weeks. If you wanna say something, you have 8 hours a day.

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    Tweet humorously highlighting work email jokes, noting that weekend emails are more memorable than job roles or workload.

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    Petra Peitsch
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    4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you have to harass your employers on their days off, you are understaffed.

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