Passive Aggressive Responses

[Lee B]

I have read variations of this list online:

1.  Just a friendly reminder  .  .

2.  Don't take this the wrong way  .  .  .

3.  Got it

4.  How are we doing with  .  .   .  . that I'm waiting for

5.  If that's what you want to do  .  .  .

 

It does make you think about how you communicate with clients, friends and family.

So my New year's Resolution is to be less negative and more positive 

[BLACK BART]

On 12/26/2022 at 12:13 PM, cbslee said:

I have read variations of this list online:

1.Just a friendly reminder  .  .

2.  Don't take this the wrong way  .  .  .

3.  Got it

4.  How are we doing with  .  .   .  . that I'm waiting for

5.  If that's what you want to do  .  .  .

It does make you think about how you communicate with clients, friends and family.

So my New year's Resolution is to be less negative and more positive 

Long ago, clerking for a local tractor sales repair outfit, I composed a collection letter which mentioned some of the above lines plus others I created.  Hot into writing at the time (no best-sellers emerged), I considered mine a friendly-browbeating masterpiece.  A fellow colleague from our nearby competitor later called; praising it highly and asking permission to use it. Quite pleased, I agreed.

Next month he called back: "We got a better letter than yours." (Their customers didn't pay well, but neither did they.) A rough, camo-collar guy who sold scrap iron but was also known to pack an iron, had penciled on his notebook-paper statement:  I WANT MY MONEY

Paid the same day received.

BB 

[Max W]

Goes to show, it's not what you say, it's how you say it.