"you are a funny/sarcastic individual..."

... someone wrote that to me over email.

Someone who is way higher than me in the corporate food chain. Someone who is new to the organization, doesn't sit in the same office as I, and whom I've only met and conversed (amicably) with a couple of times.

It all started with an email I sent out, to her and other folks in the bigger region, announcing my own... er... 'promotion' - just so all the email communications go out to the right persons and I don't have to keep forwarding them. And all because my dear ex-boss had forgotten to do that little bit.

I mean, it is weird, right - to have to make an announcement about yourself - though I've always fantasized about making my own announcement (note: not a farewell email) the day I decide to quit. So I tried to inject some lighthearted wit in the email to make myself seem not so self-conscious.

On first look at her reply, I had doubts about her intentions - am I stepping on the wrong toes?

"... just like me." The latter part of her sentence eased off my tension a little, after I tried for a while to diagnose her words.

Probably she just likes my guts. My guts at poking fun at myself and maybe at others, to a less and more-harmless extent.

I hate superficial "office-like" emails anyways.

"Hi xxx... Please kindly... Thanks & best regards."

I mean, if you use 'please', you don't need to say 'kindly' after that. It makes you sound so imploring.

And I think you don't have to say 'Hi' all the time when you're emailing the same person like ten times in a day, and when it's supposed to be simply an online working discussion - or worse, when it is an email chain.

And you don't have to send your best regards all the time, do you?