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What’s the worst email exchange you’ve ever had with a colleague or co-worker? Today, I think I might have hit an all-time low in that category. Essentially, I traded 6 emails with someone this morning who argued semantics with me about a statement I made in another email.
In the end, and what really made the whole thing ridiculous, is that the person didn’t actually read the entire email in question. They picked out one snippet (actually a grand-total of 3 ASCII characters; without the all-important words before and after it), and then tried to verbally beat me with it for the better part of the morning. Ugh.
After doing some polite maneuvering to get the person to realize what a bonehead they were being, I felt completely dead by 10am. Not only that, but I got no apology, retraction, etc. whatsoever after the fact.
I was so bewildered, I walked around the halls near my office like a ghost for like 5 minutes this morning contemplating how crazy the last hour had been. What a waste.