The co-worker who never responds to an email. The coworker who never reads his emails carefully. The coworker who can never find an email... Need we go on?
Suffice it to say, working moms deal with a lot of infantile behavior—and we're not talking about our toddlers. Sure, most of our colleagues are wonderful, but there are plenty of times we want to bang our head against the nearest wall. So we couldn't help cracking up when Twitter user Danielle Rene asked her followers about their favorite passive-aggressive phrases to use in a professional email clap-back. The results were passive aggressive indeed, albeit downright hilarious. While we wouldn't usually condone this type of work behavior, all working moms know that there's nothing worse than leaving your children at home only to deal with child-like co-workers at the office. So the next time your cubicle neighbor asks you for meeting notes only minutes after they were sent out in an office-wide email, try one of these perfectly-petty responses.
Yep, this sounds familiar.
Just a friendly suggestion for future reference, of course.
Gotta keep things crystal clear!
Warm regards may not be so warm after all.
There's a reason they exist, you know that right?
I'm not wrong, you are.
Aka, please give me one.
Really, Jan, really?
Let's stick to what we each know best, okay?
No more days between replies, please!
Basically, you're wrong.
Do I look like a search engine to you?
Yeah, there's evidence ...
Here's what NOT to do.
Finally, what we wish we could all say.
