My last post described Mrs. DayJobNuker quitting her job and being exposed to some “PC rubbish” as one reader put it. Well yesterday I was dealing with the difficulties of text based communication (AKA the comment section of blog posts).
Garry Conn over at GarryConn.com is running a contest and the winner gets links to their last 10 posts on the upper right of his website for a month. It’s a nice site and a nice prize. I was the first to comment on the post and noted that I thought it would probably be difficult for a blog with a smaller audience to win.
He looked at my site, seemed to like it, and followed with a comment of his own saying not to underestimate my site. So far so good. Well later in the day I decided to participate and added another comment that I would participate. Then I made my mistake. I tried to be funny. I still think 8 or 9 out of 10 people would not have misunderstood my post and understood that I was making a play off my DayJobNuker name and site but he definitely was one of those few.
He totally misread my intentions and countered with some lengthy defense of his contest and ended by saying that he didn’t need my “negativity” and I was no longer welcome to enter. WHAT? I quickly went back to read my post and realized this all could have been avoided (perhaps) if I had put a “LOL” or a ” 
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Well I wrote another post, he apologized, and I hope everything is OK now. It was probably half my fault and half his fault. (Garry if you are reading this I really think it was 75% your fault LOL )This is a great example of why I HATE email. It’s just too hard to put emotion, or laughter, or correctly convey your tone with JUST the written word.
In the office-place it seems everything now is done by email. I now read every email I send to clients at least four times. It’s painful let me tell you. I look at the email thinking to myself is there any possible way this can be misinterpreted? Any at all? You’ve got to be so careful now days that it is really sad.
Anyway check out the contest over at GarryConn.com and click on the comments link at the top of the post for the blow by blow of what we posted. See who’s fault you think it is and then come back and vote below!
One more thing, EMAIL is ANOTHER reason I want to Nuke My Day Job! I HATE it!
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You are very right. I have always found it difficult to decipher sarcasm, poking, etc… in the real world, I joke and poke around with people all the time, so it is funny that I misinterpreted your message. Very sorry about that. And as for 75 / 25 … wow that’s cool, because I had already held myself 100 % accountable. Take care and sorry for the mishap.
Best Regards,
Garry Conn
This is why I use emoticons a fair amount. Some people think it’s lazy or sloppy to qualify your writing with ‘:)’ faces and ‘LOL’, but I think it can help steer off trouble. The written word is definitely more harsh when it’s stripped of facial expressions and voice inflections.
I have this problem all the time as well. By nature, I’m a very sarcastic person. This often gets lost via email/instant messaging and mistaken for some other mroe negative quality. I suppose it’s partially my fault, and I should no longer try to be funny or sarcastic via email.
Good to see your blog coming along.
Thanks for voting everyone. So far I am ahead of Garry by 4-0. Mrs. DayJobNuker looked at what I wrote though, and didn’t get it. She has never understood my humor.(I didn’t let her vote)
You got my vote. Good luck on this and hope you win.
I can see how it was misinterpreted, plus, when something is close to the truth (or is the truth) and people don’t want to face it, they get all aggressive like and take their ball and go home
Emoticons are a natural part of online discourse I’m afraid.
[...] caused some serious miscommunication involving Garry Conn’s contest (you can read that post HERE and vote too if you haven’t). Anyway, it now seems like I am in second place and I never [...]
one day when the email reads itself might probably come. LOL =)
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I can see how it was misinterpreted, plus, when something is close to the truth (or is the truth) and people don’t want to face it, they get all aggressive like and take their ball and go home
Emoticons are a natural part of online discourse I’m afraid.