“please advise” as a declarative statement instead of a question is almost always used passive-aggressively. If it’s someone who works for me, I don’t want to be notified of a problem without their thoughts/suggestions/proposed solutions. So we just print single-sided for them. That’s what I use when emailing a group. I usually can get improvement by coaching them on this. This cracks me up, just like TY. I hate please advise! because that’s how it is used. Me: I haven’t heard back about who should be the signatory on this document. “you made this easier,thanks” or something similar. The. I suspect it’d be relatively easy to write a “business email assist” function that would help people compose nicer, clearer, more consistent emails. And as an aside, I really wouldn’t mind hitting someone with my shoes. If you want something, just pick up the phone and call me. Please advise.” (if you wanted instant notification you could have sent it yourself!) Could you please advise if my loan can be written off, if I have taken out a PPI without full knowledge? It’s really good to conserve on E’s, so that future generations may have some. My current manager is really fond of the smiley faces in outlook, so I have a rule button that replies to messages with just a smiley face. LOL. “I’m too stupid to even attempt to determine what the next course of action might be, so I’m not even going to suggest anything.” Bold is better–I can understand it for dates, times, conference rooms, key info of that sort. A complete search of the internet has found these results: please advise on this matter is the most popular phrase on the web. In international travel forums British nationals often ask a question about hotels or restaurants or whatever with ‘I require a XYZ’ — to me ‘I require’ sounds demanding and entitled and always evokes mild hostility in me. In fact I just searched my emails for “please advise” and 99% of them (250 results since July/August-ish last year) were from this guy! Like, “Kindly reply to this message by Thursday.” Not something that’s going to ruin my day or anything, but you could just ask me to do the thing, and I’ll do the thing, because I’m a professional adult who works hard to meet my obligations. Because it makes perfect sense in Spanish ☺. Early in my job I would give people way, WAY more information than necessary in emails before I realized that this can be offensive and it’s almost always better to use the minimum information necessary for clarity (not that that is necessarily easy to determine, but as a goal). Personally, I tend to say something like “Let me know, thanks!” or “Can you please let me know?” when indicating I need a response and I’m not ending with an obvious question. BTW, this reminds me of a former peer who frequently signed off with “Thanks in advance,” or even used her own acronym, TIA! Do not leave your belongings at the front desk. I don’t think I would even know what that meant. Wow, that’s a strong reaction to a simple and standard email closing! This got me into trouble so many times. Is it possible that your reaction is based off your feelings in your role and the office dynamics? “Can I help the next person in line?” is much better. :). It just comes off as sort of short to me, especially when there are much nicer ways to say it. } Can’t think of any examples right off the bat but it definitely doesn’t fit for some emails! Just… no. This whole discussion is fascinating to me, because at my current job “please advise” is used a lot. Yikes, I learned to do this when I worked in a law firm and often end emails this way. The issue is that they want to find a delicate way, which implies “I don’t think you can handle a straightforward mention that I’m still waiting on this.” The desire to more delicate than that is what grates. If I have to remind you more than once you’re probably on my nerves more than I am on yours. Satisfaction guaranteed! I had a coworker that used to ignore my emails about half the time so one day I asked her why. In Taiwan, the one that was odd to me was addressing people as ‘dears’ whether in the email salutation or in person. If they say the second line instead, people look at each other and defer to the next person. I always wondered if one person at the third office really liked the phrase, and everyone just followed her lead. “I think you’re too stupid to realize that I’ve asked you a question and I want an answer.” Could you please advise what your situation is," the air traffic control operator asks. I hate the phrase. I’m literally just giving a reminder, no qualification needed. Some people might use this with no intent of being rude. If the e-mail is sent out to a distribution list (scenario I’m envisioning) it’s hard to think of any circumstance where it would be appropriate to reply all. That’s exactly how it strikes me. It’s actually pretty nice, IMO – I hate when someone calls me unexpectedly and wants me to look into some issue while I’m in the middle of something (and hence most of the time I don’t answer the phone if I’m not expecting a call). Often I see “please advise” on an “I just described a hilariously tangled or annoying situation” email and it generally translates to “I don’t even know. ", “I get right feedback from experts. For awhile, I used “Ten-four!” with another manager as kind of a joke to let her know I got a message, but it doesn’t really work with everyone. I often use it with my boss or MOR to get their advice i.e. I guess they could say, “Can I help the person who is next?” But that, while grammatical, still sounds odd. “This weekend I decided to reorder the teapot lid process from Z to A, rather than A to Z because (insert reasons). ?”…I suppose ‘please advise’ is better than that or whatever expletives I might be thinking. I sometimes wish I could use 10-4 in emails (to mean recieved and understood). Assuming this is really the only issue the OP has with her people – she’s their manager, she can tell them what to do. I also find that, when replying all, it helps to specifically address the people who need to take some sort of action or provide an answer. + Read the full interview, — Zubair Alam Chowdhury, Technical Support Specialist, TextRanch has helped me to improve my written skills as well as to communicate more naturally, like a local English speaker. +1. Prefacing the word reminder with “gentle” or “friendly” is a feeble attempt to soften the blow. You could just say it’s a reminder without qualifiers. +1. The sender writes anyway and says “I need to put in the order for either blue and green enamel for next month’s collector teapot and Jane told me she didn’t know. Makes my blood boil. Yeah, “thanks” is my new “sincerely” and it does seem pretty silly when you think about it. The original poster sounds like an arrogant primadonna. There was another word that was used differently than standard American English – was it something like “presently” instead of “soon”? The third is forward yet subdued–not a bad option, honestly. I never mind it. my pet peeve is when people say “please advice”. At my old job, someone forgot and send wrong email to an internal listserv with about 1000 people, she realized the mistake in about 5 mins and quickly sent and apology email and a note to disregard. Do NOT leave your belongings at the front desk. Now his bosses, they hated it. I heard “sleeps” used all the time in the US – I think it’s a weird phrase. It’s like saying, “I won’t be thanking you after you’ve done the work.”. Did you make a decision already? I guess I could take the time to type out “Would you like me to continue doing this in the future? It only happens rarely, but every once in a while I’m asked to email someone about something and I really have no idea what I’m doing/what the end goal is, so I put “please advise”. I always felt like my reaction was unreasonable, but it’s definitely a strong one! Running errands: “I have to get the needful done.” Except with the way you worded it, you’re implying that your boss *has* to go with one of the three options you came up with as opposed to coming up with their own idea. I have used the “kindly requesting” bit. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone actually say “Please advise” outside of radio dispatch conversations. The “call me” is a little short. She’d been told about that by other staff, so I reminded her of that event, and then said, this is one reason the parking procedure was put in place. I bet these are the same thrifty people who are saving their turn signals for some special occasion. I’m in grad school now and definitely retain the “as brief as possible” email ethos which some of my fellow students really do not, and I wonder if it comes off as abrupt (and I’ve always been on the more prolix side of email writing, too!). In his defense, he’s like 70-something, but whoo boy. It’s never even occurred to me that someone would take issue with it. If the sender shows signs of taking my work for granted in other ways, or is just generally annoying, sometimes the “grrr” is mentally capitalized, bolded, italicized, and/or underlined. It’s super formal feeling, but I’m told that literally everything else will be misinterpreted by someone. This service is really amazing! Want to hear the craziest email pet peeve? If you didn’t give a specific direction for how you want them to respond (“Please advise if I have authority to do X, and let me know if you have any questions.”) the only response you would get was, “Thanks!” That is less than helpful when you need authority to do something ASAP. I’ve now defaulted to “kind regards” for every single email regardless of content. time. It’s work. “No errors on these teapots. I really hate sending those “please submit your TPS report by noon, Friday” e-mails, but it’s a part of my job (my least favorite part of my job). :D I only had to explain it to him once. Please advise.” Which would be annoying. please assist on this matter or please assist in this matter? I tend to err on the side of not reading snideness into emails unless it’s either really egregious or I have reason to believe that the person is actually trying to be snide. Huh. As a general rule, I think e-mail should be read with Hanlon’s razor in mind – and should always be interpreted as though the writer meant well, unless proven otherwise. 1. Emails were coming in all day long. I always get back with the tardy person and ask them if they need something else/anything before they can reply. Yea see because you made a statement rather than ask a question. So now it causes a twitch when others use it, but I know it’s all on me. (I am a webmaster for many sites at my University, and a lot of times people from a department want me to do something to their site that is in conflict with ADA compliance/branding initiative/common sense, so if they don’t take “no” for an answer when I explain why we can’t do it that way, I bring in another person of influence, like my boss or someone in charge of university-level site compliance, or the person’s own department chair, etc., and then explain the request, the problem with the request, and explain that I’m trying to resolve the matter.
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