emoticons in the work place - when is enough enough?

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I've noticed lately an overload of emoticons in business-related e-mails. When has this become acceptable? Not only that, but lotus notes turns the simple ":)" into a full-out smiley guy. This is distracting me.

― mandee, Monday, 26 April 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hey, why are there sparkly teddy bear stickers all over this parole application?"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I do hate the full-out smiley guys, but I do find myself writing in smiley faces on office memos and appointment cards and things, but I think it's just an insecure last-ditch attempt at not looking bitchy.

It's always like "What retard made an appointment for a freaking Tuesday morning? :) "

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I could say something, but you know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess because most of my clients and I communicate via e-mail it's just a way of making sure we're not being complete assholes to one another?

― mandee, Monday, 26 April 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Why can't we just dispense with the niceties and be asses when asses are what we need to be? It's work, after all, not real life.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Memo To: All Employees

Pls fuck off at yr earliest convenience.
Thanks,
Mgt.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I totally do things like that.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

the emoticon :/ appeared in an work e-mail recently. I emailed back to say that I was pretty sure my mouth didn't do that.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

It's nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in.

― jaymc, Friday, 25 April 2008 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

ಠ_ಠ

^ this is printed out in large font and displayed prominently on my cubicle wall

― AJ Styles, Friday, 25 April 2008 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

I was all like, Can I has r00t on yuor servar? and they were all What? No. \(O_o)/

― StanM, Friday, 25 April 2008 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

I do tend to use "My failed backup jobs, let me show them to you" type things, but only to the kind of people who have no life either so they know what I'm talking about.

― StanM, Friday, 25 April 2008 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, we don't subscribe to that journal :(

― jel --, Friday, 25 April 2008 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

To be clear, the article said that it was only 38% who had used internet acronyms like LOL, and a quarter who had used emoticons.

The teachers should share some blame, too. I feel like the first time a student of mine threw a ROFL or a ;-P into a paper, I would tell them to rewrite it and if they did it again, they'd get an automatic zero.

― Z S, Friday, 25 April 2008 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

TOUGH LOVE KID, LIFE IS HARD

― Z S, Friday, 25 April 2008 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'd drop them a letter grade

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 25 April 2008 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

A professor of mine has written bot LOL and 'srsly' on graded papers she returned to me.

― Abbott, Friday, 25 April 2008 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

It was actually l-o-l, with hyphens, which looks kind of like a TIE fighter when written out.

― Abbott, Friday, 25 April 2008 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

O HAI WE HAS LADE YOU OFF :((

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 26 April 2008 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

actually i think emoticons would be good addition to the copyediting lexicon. there are lots of stories i'd like to decorate with o_0.

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 26 April 2008 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

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