English 420Y - Business Writing Online

After reading the article “Boss's Angry Email Sends Shares Plunging,” I think it made good point about human behavior and emails. I don’t think that Mr. Patterson’s did the right thing by pressing the send button after writing that email. His language in the email was very rough towards his employees. I understand his point of view when he said that, his employees will only listen if he adds a little pinch of salt to the emails. But on the other hand it’s the co-operate world, if anything gets leaked out. It wont be good for the company because there are a lot of people out there who like to add a little pinch of salt themselves to the story and change it around. The difference between text messaging and writing emails is that Text messages are short and they have to be written in proper English, for example “you” is written as “u” in a text message. People try and squeeze as much as they can in one message so that they don’t get charged twice buy sending to messages. On the other hand emails are a lot more formal, you can write as mush as you want to and there is no charge. Emails are used for everything these days. In the business world, the employees of a company use email to communicate with each other. That’s how they share information so that they don’t have to keep moving up and down the office every 5 minutes to share information with their co-workers.