As I am becoming a grumpy old man, I find myself getting more annoyed than is necessary with the various ways people end work emails

Examples today include

Kind Regards (I saw you by the water cooler 3 minutes ago, no need to give me your regards)
Kindest Regards (like kind regards, but betterer)
KR (lazy)
Best Regards (what does this actually mean)
BR (Lazy)
Regards (?)
Rgds (lazy)

I tend to just write my name, perhaps with ‘Thanks’ if I am feeling appreciative.

What is the collective opinion here?

I end mine with;

L8RZ

Whatever you like.

Most people don’t care.

Cheers or Best Wishes

Oh and why is it whenever anyone comes on to have a grump about the way other people write they always make some karmic error?

Regards, Best or Cheers for me, depending on who the email is to.

Regards, Best or Cheers for me, depending on who the email is to.

Best what? does the recipient have to fill in the blank?

Cazart

TTFN

This week i am using ‘from the Tomb of The Emperor of Mankind and Holy Terra’.

Next week i will pick another.

What do you write, Frank?

your name? I’ve just opened the email from you. I already know who you are.

Yesterday’s

may you burn in hell.

3rd Earl of Windthorp

Good heavens man…one must use one’s title.

Where would one be without standards

Well, I’m not holding a glass aloft at the end of my other emails, but in general I mean that I wish them well and hope they’re getting on OK.

Don’t let pedantry get in the way of semantics.

Cheers or Regards usually, Mvh sometimes.

Depends on the recipient.

Missing you already!

Jamie.

Sent from a device you aspire to owning.

Toodle pip

boomshanka

NOW ‘KOF

Mvh sometimes

WTF?

SWALK

Mvh sometimes

WTF?

My Veritable Hospitables

Someone on Twitter observed that when it changes from “Best Regards” to “Regards”, you know they’re just about to lose it.

WTF?

Med vennlig hilsen (With friendly regards) 😀

For work stuff I use “love and kisses”, if it’s personal I just use “BR”.

boomshanka

May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman.

Bazinga

boomshanka

May the seed of your loins grow fruitful in the belly of your woman

Neil?

Ftumch

kthxbye

Also what do you start emails with? Hi, Hello, Dear?

Get a lot of emails from our continental cousins written in perfect English with a cheery wiedersehen or salut or ciao on the end so I do the same it makes me seem more cosmopolitan

Also what do you start emails with?

Darling Facist Bully Boy,

Give me some more money, you bastard.

May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman.

Neil

May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman…

LOL great minds etc

“You haven’t heard the last from me.”

FG – Member

WTF?

Med vennlig hilsen (With friendly regards)

Cool, Swedish?

Close this email at your peril

–or–

N’goto Mombazi
Harvester Of Finest Bank And Credit Card Details
Thanks For Yours

Don’t like e-mails.

Usually finish correspondence with ‘Please don’t eat this pigeon’.

may the seed of your loin be ever fruitful in the belly of your woman, you bastard

“Regards, Grunkalunka”.

It leaves you with the option for the best sign-off ever – “Retards,” which you can then claim was an innocent typo.