Topic #3

Created by Krystian Dunford on Mar 3, 2015 1:11 PM

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An email is inappropriate when a person, organization, or company writes a

formal memorandum, proposal, letter, reports, etc and the reply returned is
through an email, which lacks professionalism and goes against protocol. An
example of when an email is inappropriate is, if your supervisor places a
memorandum about upcoming changes to the companys insurance policy in
the inbox on your desk, after reading the memo and displeased with the
companys decision, you send an email to your supervisor complaining about
the new policy. In the scenario I mentioned above, I would have just politely
asked for a phone number to call about any questions or concerns I had to
the companys insurance group. It was inappropriate for the employee to
send an email complaining to the supervisor rather than asking for a meeting
to discuss the new terms of the change in policy or be directed to someone
who could help with further concerns.
The email was inappropriate not only because it could have been addressed
to the wrong person, but also when making a complaint to a supervisor, the
best way to address the situation is in person so there is no
miscommunication or wrong interpretation by the sender or the receiver.