Consider writing like an aggrieved Victorian aristocrat, or a protagonist in a Jane Austen novel.
My dearest Human resources department,
I am writing forthwith, to complain aboutthe insinuation that I am to be considered intimidating withmy extensive use of longer vocabulary. To wit, I should also like to raise a complaint of mine, such asis within my allowance, that there is an intimidating lack of long words used in workplace communications.
Good day,
Mean Elevator
Got a message from my manager regarding a minor complaint made against me. Apparently I use big words in emails and some people find it intimidating.
We had a good chuckle about it. I was hoping he’d tell me who it was so I could send that person a link to a dictionary/thesaurus page.
Straight to hr for being smart. We only want dumb people working at this company.
Big words make sad and angry.
Make stop please.
Offer to meet the complainant in the thunderdome; or tell your manager that scary is a better word than intimidating.
I like this idea. In reality I’ll just use bigger and more obscure words (definitely throwing cromulent in there soon).
Give them something to really complain about.
Consider writing like an aggrieved Victorian aristocrat, or a protagonist in a Jane Austen novel.
My dearest Human resources department, I am writing forthwith, to complain about the insinuation that I am to be considered intimidating with my extensive use of longer vocabulary. To wit, I should also like to raise a complaint of mine, such as is within my allowance, that there is an intimidating lack of long words used in workplace communications. Good day, Mean Elevatordeleted by creator
Insubordinate and churlish.
Practically preposterous.
A complaint about VOCAB?!