The following are many employers’ top e-mail pet peeves in the professional setting:
- MESSAGES IN ALL CAPS
- messages in all lower case
- Incorrect, punctuation
- Responding messages that don’t answer the question
- Writing the Great American Novel (e-mails that are too long)
- Sending unnecessarily large attachments
- Forwarding non-work related jokes or chain e-mails
- Discussing personally sensitive issue
- Forwarding offensive or off-color jokes or attachments
- Not using the subject line—or not changing it to agree with the topic.
Read more tips like this in "New Grad Rules for Workplace e-Etiquette."