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Which honestly feels kind of ridiculous.

I get that tone is harder to read through text when everyone's remote, but now I'm weirdly self-conscious about every message I send.

Like, I'll type something normal and then sit there thinking, does this sound rude somehow?

Remote work is strange sometimes.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I didn't realize punctuation was such a big deal.

This is surprising to me because I haven't heard that many stories in my real life where people were told to tone up their emails and their messages.

If anything, I've actually heard stories of people being told to tone down their messages, to tone down the emojis and tone down the exclamation marks.

I'm actually in the opposite position because I'm quite self-conscious about how many emojis and exclamation marks I use.

I feel like I use too many, if anything.

I haven't really been told by my manager to stop doing this.

I haven't received any direct feedback, but

I feel like sometimes when you do too many exclamation marks, it just comes across too enthusiastic and potentially a little bit childish or someone who's trying really hard to impress, which is definitely something I could potentially struggle with.

So this is surprising to me that someone's been told to add more emojis, especially because the original messages don't sound very rude to me.

Are you working with Gen Z?

Are they getting their poor feelings hurt?

Oh wait, let me not forget the emojis.

Boo hoo.

Okay, yeah, I feel like it depends.

I also think that if you're working mostly with older people, people who are in their 30s, 40s, 50s, they don't want to see emojis in your messages.

They probably don't care if you have emojis in your messages, but it's very unlikely that they'll ask for emojis in your messages.